Latest Work

March 2026

Currently a Research Assistant at Sheffield's Centre for Machine Intelligence, working with Dr. Newman-Griffis on AI Skills projects;

including AI training and employment, AI skills building, measurement of AI deployment metrics, and AI in professional development.

Interests

In Research & Work

  • Human and AI / Robot / Computer Interaction

  • AI Philosophy

  • Machine Psychology

  • Responsible AI Safety and Ethics

  • Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

  • Multi-Agent Reasoning and Interaction

  • Social Impacts of Technologies (esp. AI)

  • AI Policy - from AI Welfare to Digital Humanities and beyond

As a Human

  • Tabletop Roleplaying Games

  • Hikes and Hillwalking

  • Making Things (woodwork, leather, jewellery, textiles, you name it...)

  • Science Fiction Media

Experience

yearrole
2026*research assistant - AI Skills
2025*freelance AI ethical deployment consultant
2023genetics laboratory quality administrator
2020*freelance illustration business owner
2019teaching assistant (undergraduate)
2016web administrator / marketing, usability and design advisor
2014receptionist / recruitment sourcing
2012pharmacy counter assistant

* currently held role

yearqualification
2024Loughborough University
PhD in Computer Science
AI, Game Theory, Multi-Agent Modelling
2018University of Birmingham
MSc Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics
Distinction Grade
2024University of Nottingham
BSc Psychology (Hons)
First Class

Experience

  • Interdisciplinary research

  • Data collection and analysis, both qualitative and quantitative

  • Academic paper and report writing

  • Conference presentations

  • Patient and extensive soft skills - trained in Psychological First Aid and Wellbeing Management

  • Workflow streamlining and automation

  • FoH, customer service and large event support (e.g. Farnborough International Air Show)

Tools

  • Python, HTML, MATLAB, LaTeX

  • SotA Large Language Models, e.g. Gemini, Claude

  • Compliance & auditing to ISO 15189:2022

  • Office 365, Google Workspace, Power Automate

  • Adobe Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint

Achievements

  • Sole business profit growth of 220% over 4 years

  • Reduced data analysis time by 75% with design of custom processing system

  • Improved compliance to QMS by 68% through introduction of automation tools

Research

  • Social robotics projects at the University of Birmingham combining ROS and Python including game-playing robots

  • Toy project demonstrating effects of executive dysfunction in Python RL agents, mimicking disruption of the speed-accuracy trade off in metacognitive structures embodied in the CogAff Schema, supervised by Jeremy Wyatt and Dean Petters.

  • Mood-based alterations of the RL algorithm SARSA to elicit changes to learning behaviour in multi-agent simulations of the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, including dynamic networks and Erdős–Rényi graphs. Supervised by Shaheen Fatima.

  • Examining effectiveness of measures of Responsible AI implementation in consultation with local and central government. Working alongside Denis Newman-Griffis.

  • Analysing data on HE courses that train AI skills, including HESA, ASHE and LEO datasets on a variety of crosswalks. Working alongside Denis Newman-Griffis.

Consulting

I occasionally provide voluntary low-stakes professional AI ethics consultation in regards to implementation concerns, safety, governance and upskilling. This has ranged from informal discussion to NDA-covered work, and has included light training.

Organisations I have advised include:

Illustration

I have been a fully-fledged part-time digital illustrator, primarily focusing on character design work, since mid 2019.

I take private commissions, produce and sell my own merchandise, have had this work published in physical zines and have licensed artwork for reproduction. See my portfolio preview here.

Production

I am extensively familiar with physical merchandise production; vinyl stickers, washi tape, art prints, decks of cards, books and acrylic charms. In the past, I've also produced custom silicone moulds and cast my own epoxy resin dice.

All the photography, copy-writing and sales for my personal business is done by myself; you can see some examples below. My Etsy shop also focuses on on the sustainability of its products and packaging, as I am incredibly conscious of environmental impact in all aspects of my work.

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Design

Working for a local carpet and luxury homewares company, I created product photography and personally redesigned their business website from scratch (liaising with their outsourced digital provider).

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before and after website redesign

I have also built brand design documents for my illustration business and hand-crafted all assets used in either promotion of my work or in active client engagement (such as livestreaming).