Servicing clients in the UK, Europe, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Delivering industry-standard scripts (.esf file) and associated professionally recorded sound files or fully mixed content for a wide selection of films and programmes spanning comedy, drama, horror, children’s, documentary and promotional materials. Trained in Audio Description for Screen at City University, London (2010).  

Special expertise in describing silent films and vintage content

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Exploring the potential for audio description to add value, and to add value to audio description

Silencing Audio Description: Using modern techniques to make silent films accessible (presented at the Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries (DARCI) Conference, University of York, September 2025) 

Audio Description: Aiding Dementia? (presented at the Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries (DARCI) Conference, University of York, September 2025) 

Chapter ' How to perceive Cassie Thornton? The translation of blindness in Perception' in Ferrell & Welch eds  Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds

Teaching students to use, modify, and influence audio description as a tool of access and a workplace-relevant skill (presented at the

Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities

Conference , Melbourne VIC, May 2025)

Audio description for young people (presented at ICEVI, Ahmedabad, India, November 2024)

Blindly following instructions: (how) can audio description render exercise videos more accessible to support the future health of Australians? (presented at the Audio Description Symposium, The Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Perth WA, October 2024) 

' Finding the dynamic: Using audio description to create accessible and immersive gameplay experiences' (workshop run at Audio Engineering Society conference, Tokyo, April 2024)

Providing research and audio description as part of the AD4Games project under Dr Xiaochun Zhang 

' Perceptions of Cassie Thornton?: the translation of female blindness in ‘Perception’ (presented at Screenwriting Research Network conference, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, September 2023)  

Representing The Body: Contemporary Media Discourse and The Real,  Glasgow Caledonian University. April 2023)

'Finding the dynamic: an audio describer’s approach to delivering interactive audio description for games' (presented at Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description - ARSAD, Barcelona, April 2023)

‘How do I Look?: Reflections on the Challenges and Opportunities of audio describing a fashion show’ (presented at Unlimited! 3, University of Antwerp, February 2022)  

[Current] Author of ‘Audio Description’ Unit for Vocational Education and Training (VET) Certificates to provide nationally recognised competencies in the Expanded Core Curriculum (Project led by Dr Melissa Fanshawe, University of Southern Queensland/Vision Australia (currently in testing ahead of accreditation by Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) 

‘The Ethics of Audio Description: Whose team are we on?’ (presented at Screenwriting Research Network International Conference, Oxford, September 2021) 

 ‘Moving from a Vacuum to the Living Room: the engagement of the consumer in audio description for screen’ (presented at The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, University of Lodz, Poland, December 2020) 

 ‘The limits and possibilities of audio describing silent film’ (presented at Blind Creations Conference, Royal Holloway University, June 2015. Recording available here) 

Audio Description in Sri Lanka project

There are an estimated 3.5 million people in Sri Lanka who are blind or have low vision, but, at present, there is no consistent AD offering for TV, film or screening platforms.

We are working to bring AD to Sri Lanka. Find out more on this YouTube Channel here

Silent Film

Developing meaningful accessibility to silent film through audio and tactile descriptions. First demonstrated at HippFest 2025

PhD student at Curtin University researching AD for Older Adults

Coordinating Australasian chapter of Benefits of Audio Description in Education (BADIE-AU) initiative to encourage children and young people who are blind or have low vision to become critically engaged with audio description 

'Guided exposure to audio description: from 'what's that?' to 'I want that!': becoming a discerning and demanding user of audio description'