Barbara Carbon has recently started work as a part-time senior research assistant for CREST, University of Chester. She also works with adults with learning disabilities and in mental health and is training as a Gestalt Psychotherapist at the Manchester Gestalt Centre. In 2022 she coordinated and acted as the lead researcher on a creative community research project designed by Arts Connection under the Powys Localities Fund. Over the past few years she has been a freelance artist/researcher delivering a range of different creative projects within the different sections of her Powys community. For this she has been using her talents in music, theatre and visual art. She has been affiliated to the KULeuven since 2015 when she started her PhD research on the dialectic relationship between culture and technology with a particular focus on water and the Inga dams. She spent 13 months in the D.R.C. conducting participatory observation research in and around the dams, in a village with an artisanal dam, at water purification centers across the Bakongo province, on a container ship on the Congo River and on a Chinese fishing vessel operating on the Atlantic Ocean in Congolese waters.