Research and Practice

    • Lectures and Talks on creative cities, urban regeneration and affordable housing

    • Socially engaged arts workshops involving emotional mapping and/or collective making (e.g. mosaic)

    • Social science research methods, and how to adapt them for artist-led research

    • Crits and tutorials for artists, architects and designers

    • Curriculum development for art and design disciplines

    • production and project management

    • artistic direction and collaboration with artists and their agents

    • fundraising for art projects and planning permissions

    • Research project design and methodologies (including visual methods)

    • Evaluation for arts funding purposes underpinned by academic research methods

    • Conference development

My work sits at the intersection of artistic practice and urban research, with experience in community-led approaches to shaping spaces and places. Through academic and artistic research and thinking, I help shape cultural experiences that are an expression of sense of place.

As an academic, artist and geographer, I explore how creative practice can catalyse urban change, working with communities to co-produce knowledge, build local agency, and generate cultural narratives that are urgent and grounded in local experience. My practice is rooted in a London lived experience with influences from being born in East Germany and having periodically lived in Leipzig and Berlin.

Non-profit and charity advisory

    • Structuring teams and operations around budgets and fundraising needs

    • systems proposals + strategy to streamline operational and communication needs (Office 365, productivity tools and AI)

    • capital developments, planning and liaising with councils

    • working effectively with boards of trustees and non-hierarchical work streams

    • writing and reviewing charity articles of association

    • policy review including community codes of conduct and safeguarding policies

    • identifying when and what legal advice is needed, and where to find it pro bono

    • find bespoke solutions for charity leaders and trustees, and act as an external advisor

    • fundraising strategies

    • how to develop organisations that provide open and tolerant spaces (safeguarding, safe spaces for disability)

    • Fundraising strategies

    • charity/CIC health check for funder’s due diligence

    • budget development

    • Art’s Council Access Grant advisor

I support charities, CICs, and community groups to navigate urban change and build on opportunities presented to them by unlocking new sites and developing place-based strategies.

With hands-on experience in non-profit transformation, I offer practical support across operational strategy, governance/policies, grant writing, fundraising strategy, and capital developments. I specialise in getting organisations set up and moving them to different sites, or help them develop capital projects in a context of urban regeneration.