About

Welcome to my blog. Glad you decided to visit and I hope you will enjoy the content and the community here.

I’m currently a PhD student and Research Fellow at Durham University. I grew up in Canterbury, Kent, and did a BA in Theology at Oxford University. Following that I trained as a Management Consultant (training corporations/organisations in the use of personality profiling, stress management and team work).

Along side all the studying and consultancy training, I was involved in my other love – music and songwriting. When suddenly offered the chance to work in this field full time I decided to take the career path ‘less travelled’ and venture into full time work in the music sector.

Signed to the label EMI as a writer and singer I had the chance to move to the States. I jumped at the chance to experience a totally new country and culture, and grew a great deal as a person due to this experience. I lived in Nashville Tennessee for four years, then in San Diego California for three years.

Exciting moments in my musical life have been…hearing that the music I’ve written and shared has impacted people’s lives…an album I contributed to gaining ‘Gold’ sales status…having a number 3 album in the American Christian Music iTunes chart…having a top 100 album in the overall American iTunes chart…singing at the California Prayer Breakfast before and after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s address….speaking on C. S. Lewis at a Walt Disney World event marking the launch of their Narnia exhibition…and getting to share the stage with fantastic people like Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons and many others.

A growing desire to return to studying led me to move back to the UK and begin knocking on doors about a PhD. After a year of exploring options at several excellent Universities, I decided upon Durham and began my doctoral studies in January 2012.

I blog about many things… the areas that I am researching for my Phd – the relationship between spirituality and technology/digital media…about womenBut also music, life and randomly amusing things! I hope you enjoy the posts and leave a comment to add your voice to the discussions!