Geographer, Organisational Development for Non-Profits
I have expertise and a research interest in the following areas:
organisational development for arts organisations and charities in the process of change and doing capital projects
fine art education and art scenes in the UK and Germany
regional, cultural and creative economies, communities of practice and sense of place
gentrification and affordable housing
I have initiated and run many art, cultural and research projects, bringing together artistic, academic, operational and leadership experience.
Throughout my doctoral research I contributed to academic journals and books. See the list of my publications.
I’m am a geographer (and painter by training) with a dual practice: organisational developement for non-profits in the culture and built environment sectors, and doing research at the intersection of place (urban studies) and fine art (art education). I work primarily in the UK and Germany, where I was born. I have graduated with a Joint-PhD in 2019 from King’s College London and Humboldt University Berlin, studying the relationship between art schools and place.
I studied on the BA in Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Art between 2009 and 2012. As the practice/studio-based curriculum drew me closer towards academic learning, I started my studies into human geography at King’s College London, graduating with an MSc in Creative Cities in 2014.
Combining art and geography underpinned my PhD project (2015-19), studying the relationship between art schools and place. I was based in London and Berlin with joint supervision by Dr Roberta Comunian (King’s College London, Dept. of Culture, Media and Creative Industries), Dr Johan Andersson (King’s College London, Dept. of Geography) and Prof Ilse Helbrecht (Humboldt University Berlin). I received doctoral research funding from the German Study Foundation.