Recent Projects


2024 Creative Human-Machine Collaboration:
co-creating with AI in a new film production context of care
A British Academy Funded project. 

Two potentially contradictory movements in screen production are redefining the film industry.

Firstly, the impact of AI on writers raises urgent ethical questions regarding authenticity, bias, IP, industry working practices and job security. Secondly, recent concerns about actor exploitation and abuse first voiced in the #metoo movement, have given rise to industry response in the form of the role of intimacy coordinator and a broader push towards establishing a code of care in screen production.

This writing and film research project created an innovative opportunity for knowledge and skills exchange across emerging practices in AI-driven screenwriting and film practices of care. Through the work I was able to examine and critically reflect on the nature and impact of creative-human collaboration, and pilot new ways of researching new pedagogies for film and writing practice.




 









2022 Moving Image Fiction. 

Working with animator Bunny Schnedler we developed a handful of scenes from the opening chapter of The Networked Wonderland of Us, my PhD crime novel for young adults, to explore how characters and locations might be visualised for a work of Interactive Fiction.

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2021 The Networked Wonderland of Us (Young Adult Fiction)

My PhD novel tells the story of Taylor Millar who, on finding new girl Kasha murdered in her hometown, discovers some uncanny connections, driving her deep into the dead girl’s world. A contemporary coming-of-age, detective novel with fast banter, strong characterizations and a message for today’s Z generation about the dangers of sharing too much online.

It was longlisted for The Times/Chicken House Children's Novel Competition 2021 and nearly got agented twice.