I am Artistic Director of Rosetta Life, where I currently lead a four-year practice research project, Stroke Odysseys, exploring songmaking and movement and performance in neurorehabilitation contexts. I am currently implementing a programme of movement songmaking and performance in five communities across five regions of the UK. I am researching professional performance practice for communities living with the challenges of neurodiversity and I hope to develop a professional performance company for people living with the effects of stroke and brain injury that will have a lasting impact on professional performance and on the framework of healthcare.

I also lead Dream a Difference, a poetry and songmaking project building awareness of social justice and peace across ten countries where children are facing humanitarian crisis.

I am passionate about social justice and socio-economic health inequalities. I believe that the arts are fundamental to the meaning of our lives and that all communities should be able to find themselves represented on our public and community stages.