I am currently Lecturer in Education Studies at the Strathclyde Institute of Education in Glasgow, Scotland, where I teach in the area of philosophy of education & culture on the Joint Honours Education and MSc Education Studies programmes. In my research, I am interested in the philosophy of education in theatre and film-making - curious how artistic productions may be theorised as education (in the broad sense of "formation", i.e. of being formative). My most recent publications (2022/23) look at German theatre maker/theorist Bertolt Brecht’s actor training and his philosophising theatre of estrangement; Latvian director Asja Lācis' educational philosophy in her proletarian children's theatre; the role of Hans-Georg Gadamer's aesthetic hermeneutics in researching intercultural encounters and the philosopher Paul Feyerabend's Brecht-influenced "Anti-Aristotelian" epistemological anarchism. I have been project lead on three film-making and digital animation education projects for care-experienced children and young people in Scotland (Little Animation Studio; UAnimate and Scotland Our New Home) collaborating with Glasgow-based filmmaker Simon Bishopp and stakeholders in the charity/education sector. Our projects received funding through Creative Scotland, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the School for Social Entrepreneurs. Prior to working at the University of Strathclyde, I was Lecturer in Theatre at Brunel University London, where I taught Applied Theatre, Performance Theory & Directing for the BA Theatre. In my role as Research Associate at the University of Glasgow for the 3-year, Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded, £2 mill. large grant project 'Researching Multilingually at the Borders of the Body, Language, Law & the State', I theorised the role of arts-based research methods in multilingual settings. I was awarded a fully funded 3-year PhD doctoral research scholarship in the area of Applied Theatre from the College of Social Sciences/School of Education at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. My PhD project explored international students' lived experiences of 'interculturality' through a performance-based research pedagogy, based on German theatre maker Bertolt Brecht's theatre/actor training theory and practice. I passed my viva voce in May 2013.