I'm a writer, renegade guide and founder of the Living London project. I currently work part-time as Community Stories lead for Slow Ways, a CIC working to establish a national walking network that connects up all the towns and cities across the UK. Over the years, I've written extensively on the places and people that make up my home city. My writing has been published in various magazines including Huck, Time Out and the New Statesman. More recently, I self-published a book of personal essays entitled On Belonging: Reflections of a Renegade Guide.

Much of my work is centred on connecting people, places and stories through 'wanderings' Ð walks that join up places of interest. In changing cities, where communities are being uprooted and places of social, historical and cultural importance are disappearing, guiding is a powerful tool to preserve stories and memories of people and place.

Through my Fellowship, I'd like to explore the ways that we, as guides, can improve our practice to better serve local communities. I aim to collate my research and to produce a best practice handbook for guides Ð a resource that I hope will both inspire, inform and improve guiding.