I am a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, currently working on the Leverhulme Foundation funded project Archiving the Inner City.
I am currently completing my PhD, which is part of the Leverhulme funded Archiving the Inner City project. My research analyses music videos born out of genres associated with inner-city London: predominantly jungle, UK garage, grime, and UK drill. Through these analyses, and through interviews with musicians, producers, and directors, my project aims to formulate a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the different spaces in which this music has been made, experienced, and audio-visually represented, and between these spaces and the people who live and move through them.
I have written a chapter for the forthcoming book 'Beyond the Council Estate: Cinematic Space(s) of the Working-Class.'