I am a researcher, theatre-maker, and translator. My research is transdisciplinary and cuts across cultural sociology, utopian thinking, performance studies, gender and queer theory, creative methods and methodologies, and politics of representation in popular culture and media.

Exploring how creative methods and methodologies can reshape public discourse and offer alternative ways of imagining and communicating just futures, particularly in illiberal and authoritarian contexts, I design and lead arts-based participatory social research projects in the UK and beyond - particularly engaging with urgent political issues and inequalities, including gender-based violence, LGBTQIA+ rights, and migration-related injustices.

My PhD research in Sociology and Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow has looked at the queer politics of theatre-making in Turkey and dramaturgies of grief and hope. 

I have delivered lectures and run seminars internationally and worked as a tutor in Sociology Level 1 here at the University of Glasgow and on the Summer School Sociology, teaching sociology of gender and sexualities and sociology of the media. I also worked as a research assistant as part of the British Academy-funded research project, LLAMIS (Language Learning and Migrant 'Integration' in Scotland), co-led by Dr Francesca Stella and Prof Rebecca Kay. I have also been acting as the Co-PI of a British Council-funded project (2023-24), Performance Ecologies: Towards a Good Life.

I am a researcher in residence and affiliate artist at UNESCO RIELA collaborating with the network on multilingual and critical performative projects. My plays have been shown in Scotland, Germany, and Italy. I was the 2019 recipient of the Kevin Elyot Award (University of Bristol Theatre Collection). My critical-creative work has appeared in clavmag, Lune Journal, in the anthology The Book of Bad Betties (Bad Betty Press), and in Collaborative Playwriting edited by Paul Castagno (Routledge).

I am currently working on a monograph, a co-authored dialogic article on queer experiences of urban walking, and a relational-dramaturgical mapping project investigating how academic infrastructures shape utopian impulses.

Gender, sexualities, and queerness,

Performance studies and queer dramaturgies,

Sociology of the media and literature,

Utopian thinking in the arts and culture,

Creative methods and methodologies

Research groups

• Media, Culture & Society

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Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Interdisciplinary PhD Scholarship/Fellowship, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow (2019-2024)

Sociology and Cultural Studies Seed Corn Fund (College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow) (2025) (Co-I on a queer migration pilot study, PI: Dr Francesca Stella)

British Council UK-Turkey Creative Collaborations Grant (2023-2024) (UK Partner and Co-PI)

Kevin Elyot Award, University of Bristol Theatre
Collection (2019)

EU International Plays! Prize (2017), Creative Europe and Quartieri dell'Arte Festival

I am currently supervising Media, Culture & Society PGT projects.

I teach on the MSc in Media, Culture and Society programme and co-convene Producing News (MSc in Media, Communications and International Journalism)

I regularly run creative writing workshops and deliver masterclasses in playwriting both in the UK and internationally.