My fields of expertise include film curation, festivals, distribution, and practices of diversity, decolonisation and inclusion.  
 
I completed a PhD in film curation in 2023 at the University of Glasgow. My thesis shifts and expands the definition of film curation, proposing the model collaborative curation, a non-hierarchical process of curation that moves beyond the centricity of the individual towards collective forms of film curation.  
 
I am the founder and director of Aya Films, a distribution and media education company. I’ve worked on the creation of an app – Curate-It – which is a platform for learning about film curation and provides participants with all they need to know for implementing their own screening event. It has been designed to ensure that knowledge of film curation is easily accessible within the digital space. I’ve collaborated with a number of different film organisations and festivals using Curate-It, these include the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2022 and 2023; Dublin International Film Festival 2024; BFI Film Academy 2024 and SAFAR Film Festival 2023 and 2024.
 
I also worked as the Festival Producer of the Africa in Motion Film Festival between 2013-2019.
 
I teach across four MSc programmes at the University of Glasgow, all located in my research areas. I have also taught externally at the National Film and Television School on the Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA and the Creative Business MA, as well as acted as a dissertation marker for the Creative Business MA. In 2024 I was invited to lecture in film curation for 5 days at South West University in Chongqing, China.

List by: Type | Date

• MSc in Film Curation
• MSc Festivals
• MSc Working in the Screen Industries
• MSc Issues in Audience Management

Conferences

• ‘Curatorial Equity in the Digital Age’ at Audiences Behind the Multiplex. Art and Humanities Research Council, virtual, March 2021