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ABOUT

I am an arts and humanities researcher, and a creative practitioner, who likes interdisciplinary collaboration involving science and technology. My interests include climate and sustainability, AI and automation, finance and governance, futures and speculative cultures, and games and play.

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RESEARCH STRANDS

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NEW POLITICAL ECONOMIES

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CRITICAL DESIGN FICTION

THE LUDIC

Sheep
Drone Camera

AUTOMATION AND AI

IMMERSION

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POSITIONS

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

Since 2024

Senior Research Fellow in Arts, Climate and Technology

ANALYSIS UNDER UNCERTAINTY FOR DECISION-MAKERS NETWORK

Since 2021

Steering Committee

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

2018-2024

Research Fellow in Critical and Cultural Theory (2018-2022), Research Fellow in Arts, Climate and Technology (2022-2024)

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

2017-2018

Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Project Title: "Speculative Fiction, Speculative Finance, and the Economic Humanities")

UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

2016-2017

Writer-in-Residence

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER

2016-2017

Teaching Fellow in English Literature and Creative Writing

BATH SPA UNIVERSITY

Since 2016

Associate Lecturer in English Literature

NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY

2013-2016

PhD ("Moneykins: Using Speculative Fiction to Re-Imagine Finance") and Associate Tutor in English and Creative Writing

SEA++

Since 2018

STEM collaborations, offering consultancy on communication, ethics, data visualisation, and critical data studies

BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION

Since 2017

Vector chief editor (2017-2024), editor-at-large (since 2024)

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PUBLICATIONS

Selected Publications

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

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EDITORIAL

  • Utopia on the Tabletop (Ping Press, 2024).

  • With Polina Levontin: Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association (2017-). Themed issues include 'Speculative Economics,' 'SFF and Contemporary Art,' 'African and Afrodiasporic SFF,' 'Chinese and Sinodiasporic SFF.' 

  • With Ed Luker: Poetry and Work: Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry (Palgrave, 2019)

  • With Ed Luker: special issue of The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry on the theme of secrecy (Glyphi, June 2018)

  • With Samantha Walton: special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism on ecology and crime fiction (ASLE-UK, September 2018)

  • With Joe Luna: On the Late Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Hi Zero 2015)

Peer review

Journal of General Artificial Intelligence, Textual Pratice; Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy ResearchFishesMOSF Journal of Science Fiction; Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.

CREATIVE

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