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I am a design historian, Chartered Architect, and academic leader in the School of Art & Design at 91ɫ��Ƭ Sydney. I currently serve as Deputy Academic Lead, Student Experience Program in the Pro Vice-Chancellor Education portfolio, supporting institution-wide transformation of assessment and feedback practices across programs and curricula. I have previously held several senior academic leadership roles at 91ɫ��Ƭ including 91ɫ��Ƭ Nexus Fellow (2024–25), Faculty of Arts, design and Architecture Director Education Innovation (2021), and Faculty of Art and Design Deputy Head of School (Design) (2016-21). My expertise spans curriculum innovation, program-level assessment, design education, assurance of learning, and the implications of artificial intelligence for higher education.

My research examines transnational design exchange, cultural diplomacy, exhibitions, archives, and the circulation of modern design ideas in the twentieth century. I am particularly interested in how design ideas move between nations, institutions, media, and everyday life, and how these exchanges shape cultural identities and historical narratives. My work has challenged established histories of Swedish and Scandinavian design by revealing alternative and previously marginalised histories that complicate canonical understandings of Nordic modernism and its international reception.

This research culminated in my sole-authored monograph Vicke Lindstrand On the Periphery: Mid-twentieth Century Swedish Design and the Reception of Vicke Lindstrand (Uppsala University Press, 2016), which has contributed to international scholarship on Scandinavian design and transnational design history. My subsequent research has expanded to examine Nordic and Italian design relations with Australia and the role of exhibitions, migration, commerce, and public culture in shaping postwar Australian modernity.

I am Lead Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Transforming Australian Design Cultures Through the Department Store 1954–75 (2026–28), undertaken in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum and Art Gallery of New South Wales. The project investigates the role of department stores, particularly David Jones, in the dissemination of international design ideas and modern lifestyles in postwar Australia through exhibitions, archives, and public culture.

My research has led to collaborations with museums and cultural institutions through exhibitions, fellowships, publications, commissions, public lectures, and media engagement in Australia and internationally. I have delivered invited keynotes and presentations for museums, embassies, universities, and cultural institutions, and my work has been featured through public programs and media in Australia and Sweden. Between 2009–12 I was a Swedish Institute Guest Researcher at Uppsala University, and in 2022–23 I was a MAAS Powerhouse Museum Visiting Research Fellow.

Alongside my academic career, I maintain an active architectural practice as principal of Jones Architecture, a Sydney-based studio established in 1995. My professional work spans residential, public, retail, and interior projects in Australia and internationally, with over AUD $40 million of completed built work. My dual background in design practice and design history informs my interdisciplinary approach to research, teaching, and public engagement.