broc (drec, gwaddod — dregs, sediment) · môr (y llanw, y dŵr — the tide, the water) · flotsam
A gathering point for a career that has washed through several disciplines, several languages, and several organisations at once. Some of this work is academic; some creative; some both, and resists being categorised as either. It spans care and ageing in Wales, solar energy justice across East Africa, South Asia and Malaysia, and creative-analytical methods that owe as much to collage practice and fictocritical writing as they do to social science.
The word felt right. Flotsam isn't junk: it's what the tide kept.
For commissioned broadcast work and legacy projects through Pawb Cyf Ltd, see pawb.org.
Fragments / darnau
Participatory research with older people, people living with dementia, and unpaid carers in Wales. Current work includes the ENRICH Cymru programme at the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (Swansea University) and INVALUABLE — a British Academy / Leverhulme comparative study of unpaid carers in Cymru and Euskadi. Chair / trustee, Inroads.
GEDSI-led research into locally-manufacturable solar PV value chains and who actually benefits from energy transitions. Working across the TEA@Sunrise international network — partners in Malaysia, India, Kenya, and the UK — with focus on gender segmentation, colonial spatial patterns, and structural financial exclusion in solar economies. Also: Energised Communities (Wales).
Published work using collage, cut-up writing, and fictocritical method as analytical tools in social research: in GeoHumanities and in a chapter in Critical Dementia Studies (Routledge, 2023). Walking interviews and participatory scenario tools; the persistent question of what happens when research form and research content are the same thing. Welsh-language research, teaching, and media production through Pawb Cyf for S4C and Tinopolis. Adjust Tech project (care technology, digital exclusion).
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