When you get older you start to divide your life almost into segments with different jobs and roles. So around a 1/3 has been spent at School/Universities, then 1/3 as a Medical Photographer now a 1/3 in Education teaching different aspects of photography, along with a number of other subjects from anatomy to web design, from personal development planning to supporting staff through the University's Postgraduate Programme in Teaching and Learning.

I started to be interested in photography properly at Aberdeen University when the body we were dissecting had an anomaly which was then photographed and as the story goes that led to me being interested in applying photography to my interest in medicine. So after gaining a degree in Anatomy and then Teacher Training at the University of Aberystwyth I went to what was then the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff to train as a Medical Photographer. I worked in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee before moving to my home county of Worcestershire to run my own business in medical and personal injury photography for over 12 years.

Following that I began to get involved in teaching again first at Berkshire College of Art & Design with the BTEC HNC in Medical and Scientific Photography then moving to the University of Derby to become programme leader for the BSc(Hons) in Biological Imaging. I have now been at Derby for 15 years and I am Programme Leader for the part-time evening Foundation Degree in Applied Photography and teach on the BSc(Hons) in Forensic Science with modules in Forensic Imaging and Forensic Anthropology.

I undertake research as well as commissions and have recently been involved in looking at aspects of Forensic photography; for example the use of infrared to see through cover-up tattoos, the use of stitching for high resolution images as well as carrying on research into aspects of personal injury photography and supporting students with their Independent Studies work that includes photography.