The questions this work raised, about voice, ethics and how images affect social change, became the focus of my PhD in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and of later research on the long-term impact of participatory photography initiatives and on rigour in arts-based evaluation. This grounding shapes what I bring to peace and conflict studies: empirical, creative research that treats images and image-making as political and relational practices, and that is designed with, and useful to, the communities and organisations it studies. After my PhD, I was based, as a Research Fellow at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London, before joining the Department of War Studies at King's College London in 2019.

At King's I have led and contributed to interdisciplinary projects on the arts in transitional justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding, including the AHRC-funded Art & Reconciliation, Izazov! (Changing the Story) and the ESRC-funded Intersectional Gendered Violence. My Leverhulme Fellowship project, Imaging Peace, is the first multi-country empirical study of peace photography practice, ethics and impact. Working with partners in Rwanda, Colombia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal, Mexico and Northern Ireland, it examines the methods, and conditions under which, images and visual practices can foster peace and repair relations while also showing that these effects are never a given. The research was awarded the SSPP Impact Prize, shown as a large-scale street exhibition on London's Strand in 2025, and its practitioner guide has been accessed in more than 80 countries and being applied in dialogue and mediation interventions, journalist training and projects with survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. My books include Peace Photography: A Guide (2025, with Ingrid Guyon) and Imaging Peace (Edinburgh University Press, 2026).

Alongside research, I advise and consult on photovoice and on creative and mixed participatory methods. I am an Associate of Everyday Peace Indicators, on the Advisory Board of the Post-Conflict Research Centre, and a member of the Inclusive Rigour Co-Lab, and at King's the Visual and Embodied Methodologies Network and the Arts & Conflict Hub. I have also advised the FCDO-supported Ocean of Peace initiative on arts-based and visual research with Pacific Island stakeholders and am supporting research projects looking at the concepts of collective survivorship in conflict-related slavery with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery In War and image co-creation with generative AI with the University of Valladolid. Having lived and worked in Latin America and Spain, I work in English and Spanish.