I don't want to attribute achievements down to individual "hard work" My luck boils down to: ✨ open borders for immigrants from struggling countries ✨ a non-discriminatory welfare state ✨ libraries ✨ supportive community and supervisory figures And again ✨dumb luck✨

It's the second anniversary of my PhD defence. Since, I've published all (5) papers of my PhD & landed 2 post-doctoral jobs. I am a council-estate state-schooled benefit-claiming first-gen immigrant from a rough area of Bolton. That somehow turned into an academic & artist.