I completed a PhD in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before joining the University of Oxford, I held postdoctoral positions at the University of Nottingham and King's College London, including an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship. I also hold an MSc in Public Policy from UCL and an MSc in Social Policy Research from LSE.
My research focuses on understanding young people’s experiences of inequalities and the policy, social, place, and institutional factors that produce these inequalities. I use youth-centred participatory methodologies aimed at amplifying youth voices in research and policymaking. I am particularly interested in collaborating with community groups and using research findings to advocate for policy and practice changes.
Themes from my previous and current research include urban justice, neighbourhood and place effects, youth participation, youth transitions, vocational education, capabilities, youth well-being, citizenship identities, and structural and social inequalities and inequities based on gender, class, (dis)ability, race, and ethnicity.
My PhD research investigated the impact of social housing regeneration in London on the well-being of young people from lower-income backgrounds. I used the capability approach and participatory methods to highlight teenagers' experiences of restructuring their social housing neighbourhoods into mixed-income communities.
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