awarded a PhD by Publication from Nottingham Trent University: 'A Journey of Integration: virtuality and physicality in a computer-mediated environment'. In 2009 she was awarded a British Academy grant to spend several months at the University of California Santa Barbara where she undertook the research into the connections between nature and cyberspace which would lead to the development of her theory of technobiophilia. In 2010 she received funding from NESTA for Amplified Leicester, a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city's disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. In 2013, she coined the term technobiophilia which she defined as 'the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes as they appear in technology'. It is extrapolated from the notion of a biophilia hypothesis. In July of the same year she left De Montfort University to become a freelance writer and moved to live by the sea in Dorset, where she accepted an invitation to join Bournemouth University as visiting fellow. Books Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age (2017) (nonfiction) (a practical guide to living well with nature and technology) Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace Bloomsbury (2013) (nonfiction) (a study of the biophilic relationship between nature and technology) Hello World: Travels in Virtuality Raw Nerve (2004) (travel / autobiography) (a travelogue/memoir of life online) Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders University of Nottingham Press (1995) (nonfiction) Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women (1994) (fiction anthology) Water, Tusk/Overlook Press (USA) Five Leaves Press (UK)(1994) (novel) Correspondence, The Women's Press (UK) Tusk/Overlook Press (USA)(1992) (novel). Short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1993. / Chapters Flickering into Life in '25 Years of the Creative Writing MA at NTU' Shoestring Press, 2019 Women making new media at the trAce Online Writing Community 1995–2005 in '#WomenTechLit' ed. Maria Mencia, West Virginia University Press, 2017 Storying cyberspace: narratives of the natural world online in 'Real Lives, Real Stories' Eds Round, J. and Thomas, B. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 Making a space: transliteracy and creativity in ’Transdisciplinary Learning for Digital Creative Practice’, Digital Creativity 24:3. September 2013. And inside… silence In the Flesh, eds. Page, K. and Leuvens, L. Brindle and Glass: Canada 2012 From gunny sacks to hyperlinks: notes on early connections between computers, landscapes, and the body in