Profile

I research health and public health messaging through the lifecycle using design and humour. I’m also an author and I use humour, fun and adventures to help break taboos around awkward topics.

I live in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, but I was born in New York City! My accent sounds like a mix between the two now – I call it ‘New Yorkshire’!

I research periods – how to teach about them better, the biology of periods and reproductive health, how to use humour and fun activities to bust common myths, looking advertising and product design, and how media messages affect our feelings about periods, puberty and growing up.  I have just started a design and health project researching attitudes to aging in the future, and what it will be like to live to be 100, so watch this space for next year!