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Online tutor for modules on the MA Cultural Astronomy and Astrology and the MA Ecology and Spirituality and member of the tutor team of the Sophia Centre for the ���Ҵ�ý of Cosmology in Culture.

I am a Research Fellow of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa (FSA), Rome, Italy (Gaetano Massa Research Institute for Advanced ���Ҵ�ý of the Humanities). I also belong to an international Research Group on the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR) and the London based Documentary FilmMakers Cooperative.

Other Professional Memberships include:

• The Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA).
• The British Association for the ���Ҵ�ý of Religions (BASR).
• The Complementary Therapists Association (CthA).
• The International Association for the ���Ҵ�ý of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM).

My doctoral thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork on the Tibetan Plateau. The full text of the thesis, for which I received my doctorate in June 2016, can be found on , the digital repository of Cardiff University. The work explores how the presences of various kinds, such as deity, spirit, animal and human, inhabit Tibetan landscapes, what kinds of roles they play in ritual healing and their differing kinds of agency. Rituals explored in the thesis range from large communal rites incorporating whole communities to smaller household rituals; from Buddhist tantric practices and medical rites to spirit mediumship.

My research aims to explore the ways in which such perspectives can enrich contemporary conversations about climate change, collapsology and collapsosophy (respectively, the study of the collapse of the industrial civilisation, what could follow it, and the philosophic approach to it). I would like to build upon the ethnographic studies I did on the Tibetan Plateau, adding ethnographic studies of similar traditional worldviews regarding Celtic landscapes.

Research questions that interest me explore how traditional worldviews perceive presences of various kinds, such as deity, spirit, animal and human, inhabiting sacred landscapes and what kinds of roles they play in ritual healing and the health of the natural world. What do these sacred landscapes mean for those who those who inhabited them in the past and in more recent times? What ritual approaches to landscape emerge from these and how might they contribute insight to contemporary conversations regarding the fundamental changes now taking place in the natural world. How may traditional worldviews inform the shifts of consciousness humanity could make in response to these changes and can any such internal movements inform contemporary ecological perspectives?

Recent research projects include the collaborative Water Moves project—an exploration of Welsh wellsprings as sites of continued cultural, social, spiritual, and ecological significance. This interdisciplinary project engages with artistic research practices, examining their value for communities in connecting with and participating in the living culture of wellspring sites and discussing the potential value and importance of engagement through the arts for human reflections, connections and dances with (un)seen beings. 

Research Awards Received

1. 2024-2025 Research Workshop Grant, The learned Society of Wales / Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru, for the collaborative research project Animated Landscapes at Cardiff University.
2. 2012 British Academy Award for fieldwork in Bhutan, as Research Assistant on the project.
3. 2008–11 Fully AHRC funded scholarship for the PhD.
4. 2009 Recipient of a Frederick Williamson Memorial Foundation bursary from Cambridge University to support anthropological fieldwork during my PhD research.
5. 2006–7 Awarded language training grant from the Society for South Asian Studies for Tibetan Language study at Lhasa University, TAR, People’s Republic of China (PRC).
6. 2005 Awarded language training grant from the Society for South Asian Studies, British Academy to study with Sanskrit pandits in Mysore, India.
7. 2003–4 Awarded language training grant from the University of Oxford to study colloquial Tibetan at the Manjushree Centre of Tibetan Culture, Darjeeling, West Bengal and the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University, Nepal.
8. 1999 Awarded Dancer’s Resettlement Fund grant for BA (Hons) Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Research Awards Received

1. 2012 British Academy Award for fieldwork in Bhutan, as Research Assistant on the project:
2. 2008–11 Fully AHRC funded scholarship for the PhD
3. 2009 Recipient of a Frederick Williamson Memorial Foundation bursary from Cambridge University to support anthropological fieldwork during my PhD research
4. 2006–7 Awarded language training grant from the Society for South Asian Studies for Tibetan Language study at Lhasa University, TAR, People’s Republic of China (PRC)
5. 2005 Awarded language training grant from the Society for South Asian Studies, British Academy to study with Sanskrit pandits in Mysore, India
6. 2003–4 Awarded language training grant from the University of Oxford to study colloquial Tibetan at the Manjushree Centre of Tibetan Culture, Darjeeling, West Bengal and the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University, Nepal
7. 1999 Awarded Dancer’s Resettlement Fund grant for BA (Hons) Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol, UK