Hi, I’m Matt.
I’m living and working in the North West of England. I produce person-centred proposals as a Bid Writer in the healthcare sector, but have spent most of my life thus far meandering through the arts, culminating in a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University.
The works and aesthetic interests of John Ruskin have been my particular inspiration– as an academic, writer, and social care professional. I am drawn to narratives of complex care and those overarching existential links between nature and human experience: numinous moments. My work convinces me that our experience must study (and create) afterlives of various sorts.
My post-PhD research interest broadly falls under digital humanities and continues to incorporate a Ruskinian notion of the purposefulness of art. What do we use in our heritage spaces, and why? What do we overlook? What, in fact, do we have no opportunity to see, that would benefit us immensely to experience? My previous projects have utilised new narrative media, photogrammetry, and 3D printing for cultural outreach and accessibility.
I’m a technology enthusiast, but not an expert (yet). I do, however, have a growth mindset. For instance, website building is very much outside of my wheelhouse but I’ll be updating these pages as-and-when with details of my research/creative writing along with any interesting (?) professional developments.
All best, as always.
Matt