Bedwas, Wales, United Kingdom
Author and academic specialising in cultural, media and fan studies with a focus on anti-fandom, hate and dislike. Research Associate on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Synthetic Pasts project at Cardiff University and Honorary Research Fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru working on tattoos and the Jessie Knight collection. Co-editor of Popular Communication. Co-editor of Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society (Peter Lang, 2015) and Participatory Culture Wars: Controversy, Conflict, and Complicity in Fandom (University of Iowa Press, 2025). Author of The Truth Is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files. Fan Studies Network board member and co-chair of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Fan and Audience Studies Special Interest Group.
Research assistant with the Institute of Social Justice working on a project examining sustain, community-led tourism in partnership with Good Organisation.