Courtney is a semi-professional vocalist and specialist in human computer interaction (HCI) topics surrounding music technology and digital instrument design. Incorporating experiences from her own artistic and pedagogical practices, her research examines the entangled relationships between humans, bodies, instruments, and technology in music interaction.

She is interested in the dynamics between vocalist and voice, as both body and instrument, and has developed an open-source platform for vocal electromyography (VoxEMG) to explore how biosignal feedback changes understanding and perception of the body in vocal performance. Her work also incorporates feminist and post-human theories, exploring the sociopolitical contexts within which arts technology is used, aiming to further design for creativity and acknowledge individual, messy bodies in artistic practice. Courtney is also a passionate educator and especially enjoys leading audio programming and introductory coding courses and workshops to make digital technology accessible to students working in various disciplines, especially the arts.

Courtney received a BMus in Electronic Production and Design from the Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA, USA), where she also studied contemporary voice and Baroque and Romantic opera styles, in 2016. She completed her MSc and PhD in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London in 2018 and 2023, respectively. After completing postdocs at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Saarbruecken, DE) and King's College London, she joined Loughborough University London as a Lecturer in November 2023. She remains a visiting research fellow and external researcher at the Max Planck Institute.

Courtney was a PhD student in the Augmented Instruments Lab from 2019 - 23, where she focused on designing expressive vocal interfaces and the embodied relationship between vocalist and voice. After postdocs at the MPI for Informatics (Saarbrücken, DE) and King's College London, she now works as a Lecturer in Digital Technologies at Loughborough University London.

Thesis: Imagining & Sensing: Understanding and Extending the Vocalist-Voice Relationship Through Biosignal Feedback

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— BMus Electronic Production & Design, Berklee College of Music
— MSc Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
— PhD Media and Arts Technology, Queen Mary University of London