My overall research programme contains several streams, with my main work being funded by a Royal Society Te Apārangi Marsden Fast-Start grant (2023-2026). Titled, ‘Big Things, Complex Shadows: investigating intersecting stories of place, identity, and erasure through Aotearoa large roadside sculptures’, the project adopts a transformative, collaborative, and counter-colonial praxis to examine large roadside sculptures, or 'Big Things' across Aotearoa. By working closely with diverse communities and mana whenua in different rohe/sites, my aim is to amplify narratives currently hidden in the Big Things’ shadows through the production of a manuscript and creative, community-based project outputs. The project is the first Aotearoa-based critical geographic contribution to international Big Things scholarship, and I was recognised by the New Zealand Geographical Society through award of the President’s Award for Emerging Researcher in Geography (2023). Emerging from this research, I self-published a book titled A Tiny Book of 100 Big Things in Aotearoa New Zealand. Created as a community kaupapa, 100% of the profits from the book are donated to create scholarships for social sciences and humanities students, and the book was listed as one of top 44 books of 2025 by The Post. I am also holding a large photography exhibition of this work at Te Hīkoi Museum in Aparima / Riverton, until April 2026. 

My supervision and teaching activities build on my orientation to relationality and non-hierarchy in teaching/learning spaces through a pedagogy of care. I have previously co-published an article with students in support of a community initiative they ran in Ōtautahi / Christchurch, and earlier this year, I ran an AI course policy co-development wānanga with students, which resulted in a Nature [Careers] publication. I hold Fellow status through Advance HE; a teaching certification meeting the UK Professional Standards Framework, and am passionate about ensuring that my teaching methods and course content reflect the diversity of students’ lived experiences and meaningfully support them to be active community members. 

I work in both academic and industry spaces, and frequently contribute to community-based kaupapa. My films have won a number of international awards, and I have also exhibited my photography work internationally at several venues. I speak Croatian and Spanish (and learning te reo Māori), and have lived in Croatia, Canada, and Honduras before moving to Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where I currently live.