Before joining Buckinghamshire New University in 2014, I worked in the music industry, beginning in my local independent record shop—Stand-Out Records in Salisbury and Bournemouth—in the 1990s. Following this I became a full-time professional self-managed musician. I spent much of the late 1990s and 2000s immersed in the UK underground punk scene. Highlights from these years include winning the National Battle of the Bands, signing to an iconic independent record label, receiving Radio 1 airplay, and performing at most of the UK’s biggest and most famous, and smallest and most unusual, music venues.

During my time at Buckinghamshire New University my achievements include writing the first postgraduate degree in Music Business at the University in over 10 years; putting on the 2023 Punk Scholars Network Conference at BNU, which saw 30 in-person presentations from speakers from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Slovenia, South Korea, the United States (Illinois, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vermont), and the UK; supervising hundreds of successful undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations; and, in collaboration with UK Music, being on the organisational team of the Bristol Live Music Census, the first of its kind in the UK, the results of which I assisted in presenting at the Houses of Parliament.

A career highlight, as part of my various responsibilities in the Punk Scholars Network, is being involved in the 2024 Punk Scholars Network US/Canada conference at the world famous Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.