Phil Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader). He is an academic researcher, writer and artist specialising in walking, site-specific performance, dramaturgy and mythogeographies. He welcomes enquiries from postgraduate students interested in researching fields similar or adjacent to these areas; he is currently Director of Studies for Tryg Verran (contemporary bardic performance) and Patrick Ford (arcades of Leeds). With artist Helen Billinghurst he works as the 'Crab' half of Crab & Bee; after publishing ‘The Pattern' (Triarchy Press, 2020) they are currently working on practical research in making diagrammatical performances.