I am currently researching for my thesis, entitled 'Why Framing Animals Matters: Representing Non-human Animals On-screen'. It will investigate the spectrum of framing strategies, conscious and unconscious, employed in natural history, eco-activist, and animal rights activist films to reproduce aspects of nature. It will employ work by cognitive scientists on framing theory and conceptual metaphor as a framework for this investigation to explore the importance of speaking to values and emotions in environmental communications. I am interested in the affective power of these films and will be contextualising them in historical trends in filmmaking and the wider conditions of culturally-constructed human-nature relationships.

Beyond my thesis research, I am interested in environmental communications, sustainable eating, combatting food waste and historical approaches to environmental debates.