I am a creative media researcher, educator and filmmaker with a background in theatre and film performance. My research expertise and interests are: staging and performing personal stories, life story, social justice, memory and trauma narratives on film; screenwriting methodologies; social storytelling; smartphone and micro screen narratives; screen production (drama fiction and factual/documentary); cross-art form practices.

My media projects include short fiction, documentary, advocacy, corporate, machinima, experimental and dance films which have screened in festivals, on television, online, in galleries and exhibitions. I created and developed the 3D virtual world, Foul Whisperings, Strange Matters (2008-2010) in Second Life based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. My documentary Girls Can Do Anything featured in the Contesting Spaces 1: Women In Sport exhibition, John Curtin Gallery, Perth (2018) and was awarded a MAGNA (Museum & Galleries National Award) for Best Exhibition in the Research category under $20,000 (2019). And won Best Film, Spiritus Short Film Festival, 2020. I am a recipient of three ATOM (Australian Teachers Of Media) awards and nominations: In Her Own Words, Best Education Resource winner (1997); Even Girls Play Footy, Best Secondary Education Resource nomination (2012); Parts of a Horse, Best Short Film nomination (2003). My smartphone film No Bus (2021), was nominated for Best Social Issue Drama, iCINEMA Film Festival, "Obiettivo Corto" Mobile Short Film Festival, Italy, 2021.