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Qualifications

FdA Fine Art (Leeds College of Art); BA Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge); MSc Global Health (University of Glasgow); PhD (University of Glasgow).

Research Interests

A non-exhaustive overview of my research interests are:

• Inclusive, reciprocal, and creative methodologies
• Feminist approaches to research
• Sociological and Anthropological visions of food (particularly relating to consuming)
• Framings and relations of sustainability, ethics, and food consumption, especially 'quiet' and subversive approaches
• Just Transitions
• Alternative knowledge production
• Solidarity, mutuality, and more-than-capitalist exchange networks

My approach to research is to clarify and support inclusive social change. I work collaboratively, interdisciplinarily, platform the plurality of knowledges, and I am deeply critical of neoliberalist frameworks.

Overview

I completed my Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 2017. During this time, I was involved with the Social Anthropology Society (partaking in the first 'anthropology of food' paper), and with the University's Women's Campaign. I founded the first at Trinity, and was also part of the Access team, which developed greater opportunities for state-schooled pupils to attend the University.

I moved to Scotland in 2018 to begin my Masters of Global Health, undertaking classes on Policy, Health Inequalities, and Methodologies. I collaborated with a grassroots organisation which supported people navigating the UK Home Office to explore notions of community wellbeing through the lens of food. During the Masters, I worked part-time (2018-2019) with the feminist organisation '', supporting a project coordinated between and the charity to encourage greater political participation and confidence for young women in Scotland. In 2022, the charity listed me as one of their Women in Scotland.

In 2019, I was awarded an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, via ) scholarship to undertake a collaborative with a community organisation in the East End of Glasgow. This PhD explored dynamics, relations, and framings of food insecurity and sustainability, with a particular focus on consumer ethics. I developed a , reciprocal ethnographic approach, building on my interest in inclusive, participatory and reciprocal methodologies. Alongside the , I was also a co-director of (2020-2022). In August 2024, I passed my Viva with no corrections and was invited to be on the board of the community organisation following my period of research and volunteering in the Food Hub for four years. During the PhD, I was awarded 'Best Research Environment' (2020) following the development of a peer-to-peer mentoring scheme with my colleage, Dr Hadiono. In 2021, I secured a place on the 'Young Investigators Training Program', coordinated by the Politecnico di Milano. I was hosted by the to participate in the Urban Architecture Department to explore precarity, urbanisation, and food. In 2022, I was further awarded 'Citizenship Engagement' for my external outreach and volunteering (such as with Simon Homeless Project in their programme).

I held various positions at the during my PhD, such as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Qualitative Methods courses (2022; 2023), as a Research Assistant for a Nuffield-funded project on “(2022); a Research Assistant providing a review of action-based research approaches to social equity (2022); a Research Assistant exploring structural racism and its impact on health communication (2023); and a Research Assistant interviewing members of a community-based organisation about change (2024).

Over the course of 2020-2024, I also paused my PhD several times to hold a series of external research positions. In 2021, I was a with Scotland's leading anti-poverty charity, the Poverty Alliance. In this role, I explored the lived-experiences of social security during the pandemic with families and individuals in Renfrewshire and Inverclyde. The research team collaboratively wrote a reflecting on this work. This was published alongside 13 other chapters. Together, this book was awarded by the jury of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) in cooperation with Yale University Global Justice Program, (Edited Book) 2023.

In 2022, I was hired as for the Poverty Alliance in partnership with Scottish Women's Budget Group, to coordinate co-designed diary methods with eight marginalised women in Scotland experiencing the cost-of-living crisis. In 2023, I was then hired by the Scottish Women's Budget Group as a freelance researcher, producing a series of on the . I subsequently became part of the voluntary arm of the charity, in their Policy and Advocacy Group (2023-).

In 2022 too, I was a food programmer for Civic House. In this role, I supported the reopening of the , to award-winning chefs '', and developed the annual food markets at the site.

In 2024, I was a at the University of Leeds, with a policy-impact funded based at Kirkgate Market. We worked with Kirkgate Market to explore sustainability perspectives with traders to understand opportunities for 'net-zero' goals produced by Leeds City Council.

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Conferencs and Podcasts

I have presented at several international conferences, such as:

• Sociology of Consumption (Oslo, 2022)
• Interpretive Consumer Research (Liverpool, 2022)
• Planning for Social Justice (Milan, 2021)
• Social Policy Association (Nottingham, 2021)
• European Sociological Association (Barcelona, 2021)
• Royal Anthropological Institute (Online, 2021)

I have been a reviewer for  (2022).

I have been interviewed on The Good Food for Glasgow (May 2024) discussing my research around ethical consumption and inequalities.

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Writings

Some publications are listed below:

The Poverty Alliance

Exploring lived experiences of poverty during the cost-of-living crisis: reflections on utilising diary methods with women on low incomes

(Under review)

(2022)

(2022)

Awarded Yale ASAP Book of the Year 2023

(2021)

COVID Realities

(2022)

Scottish Women’s Budget Group

(2023)

(2023)

Feeding Cities Lab, Canada

(2023)

World Health Organisation
Viet Nam Feature Story
(2016)
Ghanaian Feature Story
(2016)