Joseph is an anthropologist and urban researcher based at University College London, As lead of UCL’s Citizen Science Academy, he is passionate about bringing the public into research processes, and shaping research questions through understanding the needs of communities.

He was co-lead on the creative project ‘Navigating the System‘, which investigated healthcare access challenges for boat-dwellers in the London region. Working with boat-dwelling photographer Caitlin Vinicombe, we produced an exhibition which has since been shown in the Olympic Park in London and Campus Condorcet, Paris. It was through this work that he connected with Tracey and Tim from the Accessible Waterways Association.

Healthcare is a consistent theme throughout his work, seen in his role as Creative Fellow on ‘The Architecture of Pharmacies‘. This looks into the physical environment of community pharmacy spaces in the UK, and has connection with the ActEarly project on health and opportunities for children in Tower Hamlets and Bradford.

He has been continuously cruising (cc’ing) on his narrowboat since 2019, but has now moved to his first permanent mooring, in East London.