This blogpost explores Carolines reflections and learnings from spending time with Helen during fortnightly mentoring sessions. Caroline discusses; exploring and unpicking language, the art of capturing stories and experiences and the importance of reflection, evaluation and iterative learning…

For the past 6 months I've been mentoring a Community Development Worker in creative engagement methods. This blogpost explores my reflections and learnings from spending time with Caroline - blogpost 2/2 captures Carolines learnings…

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to have been awarded the Royal College of Art, Helen Hamlyn Alumni Award, 2024! The annual Helen Hamlyn Design Awards recognise creativity in people-centred, inclusive design across all disciplines of the College and celebrate the most visionary, inclusive and innovative RCA graduate and alumni work.

I’ve been working from our ‘studio in the community’ for 6 months now; super settled and thoroughly enjoying being out of my spare room and mixing with interesting people. I share the studio with my partner, James, Designer and Director of Lowe&Co…

I’ve recently completed the equityXdesign course and thought it would be a good idea to document the things that stood out for me, so that I can refer back to them during projects – it may also be useful for you to get a flavour of the course and spark your thinking around equity too...

Thrilled to have been invite as a guest on The Doncaster Connection Podcast! Hosted by Rajnish Madaan, each episode features a creative from Doncaster where they talk about their work, life and passions…

A recent project with Thrive by Design looks at creatively engaging the Gypsy and Traveller community in conversations around perinatal mental health with the view of improving access to services. We took a gentle, considered approach to allow relationship building and establish trust within the community. A non-judgemental, human approach was needed that positioned the community as experts in their own lives.

I’ve been meaning to launch a website for 15 months now, luckily, work has been busy and so this was always lower down the to-do list! So here it is, along with a lovely new office in the community…