My research is informed by my training in art history, philosophy and fine art, and this has led to my publications including previous single-authored books - Space, Geometry and Aesthetics (2008) and Irigaray for Architects (2007, and shortlisted for the RIBA Research Prize) - which have examined philosophical theories of embodied spatiotemporal practice and theory. Chapters in architectural and humanities publications have also included: Interstices 13 (2012); Spinoza Beyond Philosophy (2012), Designing for the 21st Century (2008), From Models to Drawings (2007), Material Matters (2007), Spatial Imagination (2005), Architecture – The Subject is Matter (2001). Refereed articles include: The Senses and Society (2008), Kybernetes (2007) and Journal of Aesthetic Education (2007).

My previous research collaborations have included: leading Sexuate Subjects: Poetics, Politics and Ethics (2010), an international conference, together with international partners, Hofstra and Stony Brook Universities and KTH Stockholm, UCL's Grand Challenge for Intercultural Interaction, UCL French, Art History and the Slade, which examined interdisciplinary forms of subjectivity in contemporary times of crisis (www.ucl.sexuate-subjects); Joint-PI for Spatial Thinking (2010-) with Professor Kate Jeffrey, Director UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience; and Co-I for the AHRC/EPSRC Cluster, Spatial Imagination (£50K; 2005-6).

As Associate Director of Research I was involved in developing the Department’s REF2014 submission, and enabling its diverse research culture across the architectural disciplines.  My external appointments include: Invited International Board Member for the American Society for Cybernetics (2013-); editorial board member for the EAHN Journal (2012-14) and for Interstices, Journal for Architecture and the Related Arts (2014-); steering committee member for AHRA (2009-), and Advisory board member for the Luce Irigaray Circle (US). I am also reviewer for architectural, philosophical and fine arts journals, including: Field (2008-), Hypatia (2008-), Journal of Aesthetic Education (2007-), and Oxford Art Journal (2009-). 

Recently completed and current PhD students' projects include: a critical architectural history of construction at the South Bank; Deleuze’s philosophical diagrams for affective design practice; Kleist's theory of subjectivity, space and time for experimental film-making; a feminist critique of new geometries; performative practices and animal architecture; design through Spinoza's philosophy of 'joy'; a historiography of 'minor' postmodernism; and, ecological critiques of landfill.