Simon originally graduated from Kent University, before completing postgraduate study in the School of Education at the University of Greenwich, and becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, through which he aims to develop research into pedagogic practice with emergent artists – informed by his own extensive practice in the areas of performance, poetry, and film making.

Module leadership; developing improved online employer links through a grant from the Creative Communities Development Fund; lecturing in the areas of documentary film, journalism, creative writing, and creative industries; supporting the Writing Centre.

• Journalism. Simon worked for several years as a freelance journalist and runs the NUJ-backed Pathways to Journalism course at Wandsworth Prison.

• Documentary Film: Simon has made two broadcast documentaries, and is currently working on an interactive documentary project with the charity Art Saves Lives.

• Creative Writing: Simon is a published poet and short story writer; and former Writer in Residence at Norwich Prison.

• Performance: Over the years Simon has performed in venues ranging from the Leicester Square Theatre to the ICA, and co-ran the influential live arts cabaret club The Cupboard (“The most unusual show in town” Time Out)

• Theatre: Simon has had one of his plays performed at a London fringe theatre, and has directed two short plays by a writer he worked with in prison.

• Creative & Professional Writing
• Journalism
• Media Studies
• Extended Degree

• CC2508 Working in the Culture Industries (Module Leader)
• CC1704 Media Lab 1 (Module Leader)
• CC2105 Story and Myth
• CC0034 Approaches to Understanding Communication, Media and Culture: Practice (Module Leader)
• CC0032 Approaches to understanding communication, media and culture: Theory

Papers

• From Placement to Portfolio: at Creative Futures? - a conference exploring the Creative & Media Arts in the University and Beyond.  

Poetry

• The Feast of Nympha, Blacks Club, Soho
• The Clear Spot, Resonance FM
•  Art Saves Lives, Hot Tap Theatre, New Cross

Performance

• Ian Hinchliffe, the Memorial, Beaconsfield Art Gallery, London 

 Theatre

• ‘Not The Hurting Kind.’ Writer. Rehearsed play reading at The Brockley Jack Theatre, London

Film

• ‘Oceans’ - short film as part of  ‘The Whole World’ online exhibition curated by Ian White of the Whitechapel for Tank TV.

Film

• ‘It’s a Bad Boy Thing’ documentary. Director - Channel 4
•  ‘A Clockwork God’ documentary. Director - Anglia (screened at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival.)
• ‘Love Bites’ short film. Director - Film Council
• ‘Missing Pens’ animated film, with Stephen Mangan. Director – Film Council
• ‘To My Only Son’ short film (director John Dower). Writer – Film Council
• ‘The Message’ – directed Georgina Dobson in an excerpt of ‘Away With Words’ (director Chris Doyle)

Theatre

• ‘Sporadicity’ by Dean Stalham. Director - The Pleasance Theatre, London.
• ‘The Sniper.” Writer – The Blue Elephant Theatre, London.

Arts commissions

• ‘Waiting for Elsie’ – sound piece at Sheringham Station as part of Norwich Arts Festival. Writer
• ‘Trains of Thought’, Norwich Playhouse, Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Writer/Artist.

Live Arts Curation

• The Cupboad Club: London “Weird at heart,” The Face
• ‘North’: Benbow House, ex-MI5 Building
• 'Waterlow Sunset': Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
• London Arts Board: ‘London Collaborations’ grants to curate two combined arts projects in London:
•  ‘78’, HMS President
• ‘A OM’, The Poster Gallery, Charing Cross Road

 Poetry and performance

• Various arts clubs including the ICA; The Plunge Club; Hydra; Nux Vomica; Songbird; Klinker Club; Apples & Snakes; The Poetry Shack; Express Excess.
• Two tracks on 'MISFITS' CD of unorthodox performance (Vital Records):

                12: The message (writer)
                14: A Bad Wolf’s Sad Love Song (writer/performer)

 Publications

• ‘The Sniper’ – short story in Fission edition of Pulp Fiction – edited by Elaine Palmer. London Arts Board
• ‘The Mongoose Factor’ – short story in ‘Well Sorted’ anthology. Serpent’s Tail
• ‘Tommy: one-to-one – essay on prison writing in Free with Words. Bar None Books
• ‘Writing in Prison’ – essay in Pretext vol. 3 Rancour. Pen & Inc

• Member of: Writers in Prison Network; The National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE); Media Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA).
• Trustee of the following charities that work with emergent artists: Not Shut Up; Art Saves Lives.