My role is to enable research that makes a difference locally. I’m interested in anything place-based, co-created, or community led, where the role of the researcher is to facilitate rather than lead. I enjoy matching up disciplines and agencies and approaches to work together to enhance each other, so I’m perhaps more interested in methodologies.
That said, I was trained as an educational linguist and critical ethnographer working with refugee communities, so at my core I will always be interested in issues of inclusion, representation, and speaking to power.
Well-being is high up on the Welsh agenda, with public bodies across Wales required to assess and improve local well-being. I am working with Dr Annie Tubadji to help Public Services Boards think about how their well-being work results in productivity outcomes. builds on Annie’s work in cultural economics, which explores the roles of effective measurement and development of cultural and social capital in regional development.