Hello! 👋

I am Research Associate on the UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Research Fellowship Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI led by Steve Benford. As people increasingly engage in physical and intimate contact with intelligent machines, the Fellowship explores how artist-driven research can generate new meanings and interactions between people and machines.

In the Fellowship, I lead the project Different Bodies, in which professional and expert dancers with disabilities perform with Franka Arm Robots. The project explores themes of close bodily contact, risk and vulnerability, and deliberately challenges the normative assumptions about disability that pervade artificially intelligent technologies. I also co-lead the Digital Future’s Demonstrator Project The Drone Gymnasium which explores the potential of physical and embodied training accessories to support human-drone interaction.

I am a PhD Candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) where I work on the research project Ethics as Enacted through Movement: Shaped and Being Shaped by Autonomous Systems led by Kristina Höök and Airi Lampinen. I will defend my PhD in August 2026.

My work is part of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS). WASP-HS is a national Swedish research program which fosters novel interdisciplinary knowledge in the humanities and social sciences about AI and autonomous systems. I am also part of the WASP-HS funded research group Autonomous Systems and Robotics in Society led by Airi Lampinen, Hannah Pelikan, Madeline Balaam and Katie Winkle. The group explores how individual human bodies move with robots in close proximity, how groups of people coordinate movement with and around robots, as well as how the spread of autonomous systems impacts society, in particular the future of work, care, and labour.

I have taught on undergraduate and postgraduate subjects including User Experience Design and Evaluation, Interaction Design Methods, and Basic Human-Computer Interaction.  During my PhD, I have supervised 24 master theses across research and industry, including at companies such as Ericsson, ABB, Scania, Viaplay, STV, ASSA ABLOY and multiple tech start-ups.

Additionally, I give guest lectures at Swedish and international institutions including Stockholm University (Sweden), Umeå University (Sweden), and the National College of Art and Design (Ireland).

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My Education

• Bachelor Degree (First Class Honours ) in Fashion Design from the Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland (2015).
• Master Degree (First Class Honours) in Interactive Media from the University of Limerick, Ireland (2018).
• PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (expected 2026).