Is an Associate Professor, Creative Media Practice, and Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Television at Edinburgh Napier University. She has worked as a filmmaker and media practitioner for over 20 years in broadcast and community-based media. She received a BA (Hons) in Archaeology & Social Anthropology from Edinburgh University (1991) and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester (1994). She received her Ph.D. in Creative Media Practice from the University of the West of Scotland (2014), based on practice-led research in community media contexts in Govan and the Isle of Bute.