Lauren is an arts writer, researcher, and lecturer.  Currently she is a visiting lecturer in MLitt Art Writing at Glasgow School of Art, and one of five curators/researchers based in Oxford forming Hidden Objects Oxford, and has been an external PhD supervisor at Edinburgh College of Art.  She has written regularly for Artforum International and various critical journals and publications in Sweden, US, and the UK.   She is a member of AICA (International Art Critics Association), a Fellow of RSA London, a member of the Oxford Philosophical Society, and The Frontline Club.  She is a Trustee of David Dale Gallery and was the former Chair of Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow.  She was Executive Director of The Kitchen experimental arts centre for video, music, dance, performance, literature, film and art in New York City and a founding curatorial consultant of ZKM Interdisciplinary media arts centre in Karlsruhe, Germany.