Staff profile

I am a cultural geographer from Aotearoa | New Zealand and my research explores the politics of endocrine-disrupting petrochemical pollution in Teesside, UK. My current phase of work brings together geographic perspectives on hormones with scholarship on endocrine disrupting chemicals to develop a concept of endocrine geographies, framing hormones and pollutants as co-modulators of the endocrine system. This approach allows me to interrogate how contemporary bodies are transformed through reciprocal relations between their internal endocrine milieus and chemically saturated environments, reframing embodiment as a site of ecological modulation where industrial history, socioeconomic stratification, environmental health justice, and queer and trans politics converge.

Alongside being a postgraduate researcher in the geography department, I currently hold a variety of academic roles, including: 

• Co-founding and co-convening the 'Queer and Trans Geographies' thematic group in the Geography Department at Durham University 
• 2025/26 Durham Geography PGR social convenor 
• 2025/26 co-convenor of the Durham Geography PGR Work in Progress (WIP) meetings 
• 2025/26 co-PGR rep of the Space, Sexualities, and Queer Research Group (SSQRG) 
• Reviewer for The Local Environment journal and Hypatia 

 

 

• From a cultural geographies perspective, I am interested in:
• Endocrine geographies
• Chemical geographies
• Bodily geographies
• Feminist, queer, and trans theories
• STS
• Environmental health justice
• Industrial heritage and the politics of decarbonisation
• Teesside