I am a Research Fellow in the School of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies, in the Faculty of Education. My research interests are in exploring the productive tensions between community-based and public sector ways of organising.

I am increasingly interested in exploring and developing theoretical and practical alternatives for public organising and appropriate creative and co-productive methodologies for researching and supporting these processes. My most recent project was Loneliness Connects Us (PI Batsleer, Co-I Duggan), a youth co-research project funded by the Co-op Foundation and developed in partnership with 42nd Street Manchester. The project supported a group of youth co-researchers to explore loneliness through a carousel of moving methods, which produced a series of research outputs including the immersive theatre performance ‘Missing’. Other projects include, Design Research Get Lost (PI Duggan, AHRC) a design-informed approach to self-organising processes amongst young people, and Sans Duty – Making Tax Visible, (PI Duggan, CCN+) which used a design fiction approach to imagining a fairer tax system in an everyday utopian community.