From February to June 2024 I was able to take a research sabbatical. More specifically, after a competitive process I was awarded a Liverpool John Moores University/Faculty of Art and Professional Studies sabbatical in 2023 to write a book on Useful Art with Manchester University Press (MUP). The sabbatical will give me the opportunity to sift through almost two decades of projects, involvements in and writing/thought processes about Useful Art. I have wanted to develop a more accessible book on Useful Art, one which non-art specialists and non-academics alike could ‘use’ as a means to rethink their relationships to art, activism and ground-up micro-resistance. I also proposed to MUP that I wanted to write a book which both informed readers about Useful Art whilst, at the same time, would act as a kind of activist manual on how to use Useful Art. Emma Brrnnan, who is Editorial Director at MUP, has been incredibly helpful with developing my pitch to MUP and, also, with developing a hybrid contemporary history/manifesto/user manual approach to the book.