Publications & Speaking Engagements
Published Works:
'Pockets of opportunity: Tourette Syndrome, Public Space, and Impulse' (Forthcoming). Social & Cultural Geography.
'Centring Tourettic Experiences in Technology: Tourette Syndrome, Median Nerve Stimulation, and the Role of Technoableism in Self-Harm and Stigma' (2026). Neurodiversity.
''For the love of God just refer me' - A coproduce qualitative project into the struggles of accessing healthcare services for those living with Tourette Syndrome' (2025). British Medical Journal OPEN.
'Tourette Syndrome and Inclusive Research Methods' (2025). SAGE Knowledge: Disability Studies Collection.
'Revisiting Access and Inclusion in Research Methods' (2025). National Centre for Research Methods.
'Being a masking crip killjoy' (2025). The Polyphony.
'On the importance of ethnographic approaches to researching anti-ableist research cultures' (2025). Disability Dialogues.
'Imagining the anti-ableist university' (2025). GeoZone.
'Tourettic research of Tourette Syndrome: some reflections' (2025), Neurodiversity.
'Thoughts towards Tourettic Studies' (2025). Disability Dialogues. Sheffield: iHuman, University of Sheffield.
'End the Postcode Lottery: Guarantee Equal Healthcare Access for Tourette Syndrome' (2025). Policy Briefing.
'Using Easy-Read Formats in Geography' (2025). Fennia
'Anti-Frontiers in Zineing: Zines as Process & the Politics of Refusal' (2024) GeoHumanities
'Missive from the Accommodations Loop: A Response from the UK' (2024) iHuman, University of Sheffield.
'The Value of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Human Geography and Bioethics' (2024) Open Research Europe
'Tourette Syndrome and cautious neurodiversity-disability categorisation' (2023), Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
'Why Zines + Geography beyond the Academy = <3' (2023). In Royal Geographical Society's Communicating Geographical Research Beyond the Academy.
'Exploring a holistic approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Evidence report' (2023), AdvanceHE
'Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics, and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration' (2023), Bioethics
'Experiences of disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent staff and PGRs at Newcastle University' (2023), commissioned by Newcastle University, available here
'Waarom verkiest UAntwerpen een extreemrechste lezing boven haar eigen lessen én de garantie op een veilige werkomgeving?' (2022), Knack.be
'A call for solidarity-focused programming: Channel 4's disability code and the representation of Tourette Syndrome in Scarlett Moffatt Investigates: Britain's Tourette's Mystery' (2022), ViewFinder.
'A Call for Caution: "Stop That" Sentiments Threaten Progress in Tic Disorder Science, Healthcare, and Advocacy' (2022), Brain.
Speaking Engagements:
'Tourettic Studies: A Manifesto for the Future of Tourette Syndrome Research in Critical Disability Studies (June 2026), European Society for the Study of Tics and Tourette Syndrome 2026 [Paper Presentation]
'Tourettic drifting' (April 2026), Dancing Across Disciplines Symposium, Durham University [Invited performance lecture]
'Impulse: Translating Tourettic Embodied Experiences' (April 2026), Creating Space 16: The Impact of Identities on Health and Wellbeing, Canadian Association for Health Humanities [Invited performance]
'Deejaying, performance, and inclusive creative research exchange' (March 2026), Cripping Knowledge Exchange, Disability Matters, University of Sheffield [Invited Seminar]
'Drifting through place and space: the role of affect in choreographic practice', (February 2026), Research Salon, Dance City & Sunderland University. [Performance Workshop]
'Pockets of Opportunity: Tourette Syndrome and the creative management of impulse in public space(s)' (September 2025). RGS-IBS 2025 [Paper presentation]
'Mobilising creative methodologies to reimagine the anti-ableist university otherwise' (August 2025), Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society [Paper presentation]
'Clarifying the "life-saving" potential of online community spaces for Tourette Syndrome' (July 2025), European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome 2025, [Paper presentation]
'Centering Lived Experience in Tourette Syndrome Research' (March 2025), TTAG Online Webinar [Invited panellist]
'Beyond EDI: Disability, Culture, and Access Practices' (December 2024), iHuman, University of Sheffield [Invited Panelist]
'Updates in Tourette Syndrome Research' (August 2024), TIC-Hull Symposium 2024 [Key note lecture]
'KLAZO: Devising theatre as community building for Tourette Syndrome' (November 2023), More Than Social Model Festival, Theatre Deli [Commissioned performance and guest lecture]
'(Not So) Public Space: Disability and Intersectional Approaches to Public Spaces' (November 2023), Bodies in Public, University of Amsterdam [Invited guest lecture]
'Looking back on Tourette's: new directions in Tourette's research' (November 2023), NeuroEpigenEthics Closing Ceremony, Universiteit Antwerpen [Invited panellist]
'Hidden labour and Tourette Syndrome - the cycle of misinformation, stigma, and pressured awareness-raising' (November 2023), British Sociological Association Conference
'"For the love of God just refer me" - a coproduced qualitative project into the struggles of accessing healthcare services for those living with Tourette Syndrome in the UK' (2023), European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome [Poster-presentation contribution]
'Science-society rifts on tics, compulsions and Tourette's' (2023), European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome [Award winning poster-presentation contribution]
'Science-society rifts on tics, compulsions and Tourette's' (2023), Northern Network of Medical Humanities Research Congress [Panellist]
'Zines and the academy: a workshop' (2022), Ghent University [Invited guest research seminar]
'Tourette Syndrome and Public Space: Tourettic embodyminds in physical and digital worlds' (2022), Antwerpen Universiteit [Invited guest research seminar]
'New frontiers in Zineing: zines and process and mode of recovery' (2022), Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference [Session Convenor / Panel Host]
'Escaping the academic bubble via creative practice' (2022), Getting A PhD Conference @ Newcastle University [Paper presentation]
'Tourette Syndrome: adult experiences of public spaces' (2022), TIC-Hull Symposium @ Hull University [Invited keynote lecture]
'A call for caution: stop that sentiments threaten tic treatment and research' (2022), TIC-Hull Symposium @ Hull University [Paper presentation]
'Geographies of Impulse: Tourette's & Public Spaces' (2022), Edinburgh University [Invited guest lecture]
'The amorphous rhythms of tourettic bodily experience' (2021), Following Affect PGR Symposium [Poster presentation]
'Soup for Our PhD: reflections on poetic autoethnographic methods' (2021), Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference [Paper Presentation]
'On non-tourettic accounts of Tourette Syndrome' (2021), American Association of Geographers Annual Conference [Paper presentation]
'Geographies of Impulse: Tourette Syndrome and the post-phenomenological body' (2018), Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference [Paper presentation]
Journals & Organisations Peer-Reviewed for:
Social and Cultural Geography, Taylor & Francis
Neurodiversity, SAGE
Journal of Disability Studies in Education, Brill
Geoforum, Elsevier