Writing is one of the ways I find out what I think. It sits somewhere between record, experiment and encounter: a place for following connections between research, lived experience, making, growing and whatever else refuses to stay in its assigned category, very much like I do.
Much of what is here begins before I know what it is for. A sensation, an image, a question, something noticed at the allotment or in the middle of research. I write to stay with these first marks for long enough to see what they might become. Some develop into research or more deliberate work; others remain fragments of life as it is being lived.
This is where I leave some of those trails visible.
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From No-Dig to No-Dogma: Rethinking My Allotment After Long Covid
I have been diagnosed with Long Covid this year, so I’m learning to contend with POTS, chronic fatigue and other symptoms. Being out in the heat this summer wasn’t really an option for me. Now I am…
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Night time wanderings
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First Marks
Making space for emergence means keeping watch for what you might encounter in what is left behind. You remove things, pass them over, discard or rearrange them. New configurations take time to become used to. Like new…
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Research
Writing around research, digital life, autism, selfhood, data, methodology and the process
of doing a PhD.
Growth
Writing about the garden, allotment, food growing, permaculture and relationships with the more-than-human world.
Life
Personal and reflective writing: lived experience, culture, neurodivergence and things that don’t belong anywhere tidier.
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Derbyshire is a large county with a diverse spread of population and geography. Much of this is covered by the Derbyshire Community Foundation Trust, whose staff can struggle to reach a medical library in the course of their work, given commuting time. Collaborating to solve this problem,…