I’ve been volunteering and working with Boingboing for over a decade, having first encountered the Boingboing community through community work with young people with experience of mental health issues when we worked with Boingboing to co-create resilience resources.
Through this and further work with Boingboing and Professor Angie Hart on projects such as Imagine, I developed an enduring interest for understanding resilience as well as collaborative working and co-productive research. Somewhere along the way I completed my PhD looking at young people’s beliefs and attitudes around psychoactive substances (then known as legal highs). Since then I’ve been busy working with Boingboing to help design and deliver a whole range of co-produced outputs including lots of digital offerings on the Boingboing website.
In my spare time I can almost always be found at my local community farm in Sheffield where I help grow fruit and veg as well as working with alpacas, llamas, pigs, rabbits, chickens and ducks – offering therapeutic services to the local community and helping young people gain work experience and learn about animal care.
