I am an interdisciplinary researcher and curator working at the intersection of climate governance, systems thinking and cultural practice. My work examines how environmental strategies—particularly those related to decarbonisation, carbon removal and evaluation—are shaped within existing systems of governance, economic continuity and infrastructure, and why they often reproduce the conditions they aim to transform.

My research focuses on how governance instruments such as carbon accounting frameworks, monitoring and evaluation systems, and policy standards make complex socio-ecological systems legible for decision-making. Drawing on political ecology, science and technology studies, and relational approaches to governance, I approach these tools not as neutral mechanisms, but as sociotechnical arrangements that distribute responsibility, value, and risk across territories and communities. I am particularly interested in the frictions that emerge between planetary climate imperatives and place-based social, ecological, and economic realities.

Alongside this academic work, I bring over twenty years of experience as an artist and curator working independently across the UK, Europe, and internationally. My practice has focused on building networks, platforms, and spaces for collaborative learning, often under conditions of uncertainty, conflict, and unequal power. Through this work, I have developed participatory approaches that bring together diverse forms of knowledge, treating disagreement and partial understanding not as problems to be resolved, but as conditions that can generate insight and new forms of collective learning.

This dual positioning—as both researcher and practitioner—shapes my approach to environmental governance. I treat evaluation and policy not only as analytical objects, but as forms of governance-in-action: cultural and political practices through which futures are stabilised, contested, and revised over time. Methodologically, my work combines qualitative research, interviews, workshops, and collaborative sense-making processes that make visible the assumptions, values, and power relations embedded in governance systems.

My artistic and curatorial work has included projects exploring just transition in the arts, the social and material histories of environmental harm, and experimental approaches to ethics, infrastructure, and more-than-human relations. In 2020, I founded Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline, a collaborative learning project exploring equitable decarbonisation in the cultural sector. I have worked with organisations including Artangel, Stanley Picker Gallery, Arts Catalyst, and Radar, Loughborough University, and have taught at institutions including the National College of Art and Design (Dublin) and Kingston University.

I was awarded an AHRC-funded PhD in Curatorial Practice and World-Building, and am currently completing an MSc in Climate Change Management. I am also a member of the advisory editorial board for the Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures book series (Emerald Press).

Across both research and practice, I am interested in how institutions, policymakers, and communities can develop forms of governance that remain accountable to complexity while acting responsibly in the face of urgent climate and ecological challenges.

I was born in Dubai to English and Iranian-Assyrian parents and have long been interested in how different worlds—cultural, political and ecological—intersect without fully aligning. This perspective continues to inform how I approach complexity, contradiction and collective learning in my work.