Publications

2025. Connecting Threads tactile social history. Quickthorn Press
DateDetails
Published work
2017Stories of Collaborative Making: Two Rochdale Quilts – Quilt Studies Journal 
2020Mrs Scales Autograph Cloth – Text, the Journal of the Textile Society 
2021Threads of Identity – Journal of Arts and Communities (2021)
2022Crafting with a purpose: how the ‘work’ of the workshop makes, promotes, and embodies well-being, co-authored with Professor Fiona Hackney – Journal of Applied Arts and Health
2025Connecting Threads. Pub Quickthorn Press 
Forthcoming publications
2025An Embroidered Elegy. International Handbook of Creative Methods and Heritage Routledge
2025Stitching a Covid-19 transgression: Dominic Cummings in Barnard Castle (2020) in Global Craftivism, ed Hinda Mandell
Articles & Conference papers
2022Creativity and Mental Health, Dr Guslain Museum, Ghent Belgium
2019 ICOM annual conference, Kyoto, Japan
2019Mapping Contemporary Arts and Heritage, University of Newcastle
2018Craft and Text, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey
2018Arts and Heritage, Manchester School of Art
2016Stories of Collaborative Making: Two Rochdale Quilts with Alison Slater, in Quilt Studies Journal
2016Review of The Event of the Thread by Hannah Leighton Boyce in Journal of Modern Craft
2015Keynote presentation at Making and Mending, the IQSC, international symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2012Signature Cloths; Social Networking old and new. “Bengal to Baltimore” De Witt Museum, Williamsburg VA, USA
2012Signature Cloths as Social Engagement The Arts in Society, John Moores University, Liverpool
2012Cultural Heritage using Quiltmaking The Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference, Delhi