I am a legal academic whose work examines how law is lived, felt and made meaningful in everyday contexts. I am interested in how people experience legality not only through formal processes, but through work, community, memory and cultural participation. I use therapeutic jurisprudence and semiotic analysis to explore how law shapes and responds to voice, recognition and belonging, particularly in situations where individuals and communities navigate vulnerability, trauma or displacement. Much of my current research focuses on refugee integration and community belonging, studying how people develop a sense of security and place within local environments and shared cultural practices. I also work on the legal textures of work and precarity, including the emotional and relational dimensions of labour, responsibility and harm. Alongside this, I examine how music and collective cultural participation can express or contest legal meaning, particularly in relation to identity, access and shared creativity. Across this body of work, I aim to understand law as a cultural and emotional structure as much as a regulatory one. I am developing a continuing research programme that brings narrative, voice and cultural practice into conversation with legal doctrine and institutions, to consider how law recognises or fails to recognise the lives of those subject to it. I supervise research on everyday legality, refugee belonging, law and culture, therapeutic jurisprudence, voice and recognition, and the legal dimensions of work and community life.