My research interests are reflective of the complexity of food systems. I am passionate about the health and wellbeing of people, communities and ecosystems. I recognise the value of food for connection, including with people and place, and from a personal to societal level. Much of my work has been with Indigenous and/or northern communities on Turtle Island. My academic background includes public health, community health, and environmental science. I am a social scientist with a love of arts-based methods. Specific areas of focus have included: veganism, food security, food sovereignty and health equity. For my doctoral research I studied the wellbeing of vegans, including their food security and connection to the more-than-human world. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. I have been a vegan for over 20 years, but within the last two years I’ve concurrently followed a fully plant-based ketogenic diet to treat a medical condition I live with. This has significantly transformed my life and reshaped my relationship to food, culture and commensality. I am deeply interested in exploring the intersections of veganism and ketogenic diets, as related to health and wellbeing, equity and justice across socioecological systems.

I am a Master’s student in Linguistics at Lancaster University researching how animal farming is represented in marketing materials for animal products. My work examines the discursive strategies used to frame and legitimise animal exploitation. I focus in particular on how language and visuals can erase, distort, or selectively highlight aspects of farming practices, and how these choices shape consumer perceptions of animal agriculture and its ethical implications. Methodologically, I draw on corpus linguistics alongside Critical Discourse Analysis, ecolinguistics, and multimodal analysis to examine discursive framings across texts.