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EXPERIENCE

My experience spans research, policy and programming across humanitarian, development and post-conflict settings. The selected work below reflects some of the areas I have engaged with most deeply over the past 12+ years, connecting research with questions of care, violence, health, participation and justice.

Methods & Approaches

Ethnographic research
Qualitative research
Participatory research,
Co-creation
Research and evidence translation
Facilitation and learning
Ethical and safeguarding-sensitive approaches

Areas of expertise

Sexual and gender-based violence
Conflict-related sexual violence
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Intergenerational health and justice
Displacement and humanitarian response
Meaningful and inclusive youth participation
Mental health and psychosocial support

Invisible Care My postdoctoral research at the University of Amsterdam uses ethnographic research in Greece to explore the often invisible forms of care surrounding pregnant women and mothers with refugee backgrounds, and their importance for maternal wellbeing and intergenerational health. The research also examines what humanitarian M&E systems recognise, value and fund.	Generation After My PhD research explored the intergenerational aftermaths of conflict-related sexual violence in Rwanda. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork, it centred on young people conceived in rape during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, examining identity, belonging, recognition and intergenerational justice.
Gendered Violence Sexual and gender-based violence has been central to my work for more than a decade. I have worked on research, policy and programming with UNFPA, UNICEF and Rutgers International across humanitarian, development and post-conflict settings. My work connects lived experiences of violence with the wider social and structural conditions in which they occur.	Tech-Facilitated GBV At Rutgers, I led multi-country research on technology-facilitated gender-based violence across seven countries in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. This work explored how experiences of online and offline digital violence intersect with gender, power and wider inequalities, and translates emerging evidence into recommendations for interventions, policy change and public engagement.
Youth Participation I have always loved working with young people, and their participation and sexual autonomy have been recurring themes throughout my career. I believe young people should have real influence over the research, programmes and decisions that affect their lives. I recently led an evaluation on meaningful and inclusive youth participation in research for the Power to You(th) programme, working closely with young researchers across six countries.	Youth Mental Health Child and youth mental health has been an important part of my research and practice. At UNICEF, I worked globally on MHPSS within Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, and from 2021–2023 co-chaired the Global Mental Health Action Network’s Child & Youth Working Group. My PhD also connected me with organisations providing psychosocial support to children conceived through conflict-related sexual violence and their mothers in Rwanda, strengthening my interest in bridging GBV and MHPSS.

Invisible Care

My postdoctoral research at the University of Amsterdam uses ethnographic research in Greece to explore the often invisible forms of care surrounding pregnant women and mothers with refugee backgrounds, and their importance for maternal wellbeing and intergenerational health. The research also examines what humanitarian M&E systems recognise, value and fund.

Generation After

My PhD research explored the intergenerational aftermaths of conflict-related sexual violence in Rwanda. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork, it centred on young people conceived in rape during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, examining identity, belonging, recognition and intergenerational justice.

Gendered Violence

Sexual and gender-based violence has been central to my work for more than a decade. I have worked on research, policy and programming with UNFPA, UNICEF and Rutgers International across humanitarian, development and post-conflict settings. My work connects lived experiences of violence with the wider social and structural conditions in which they occur.

Tech-Facilitated GBV

At Rutgers, I led multi-country research on technology-facilitated gender-based violence across seven countries in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. This work explored how experiences of online and offline digital violence intersect with gender, power and wider inequalities, and translates emerging evidence into recommendations for interventions, policy change and public engagement.

Youth Participation

I have always loved working with young people, and their participation and sexual autonomy have been recurring themes throughout my career. I believe young people should have real influence over the research, programmes and decisions that affect their lives. I recently led an evaluation on meaningful and inclusive youth participation in research for the Power to You(th) programme, working closely with young researchers across six countries.

Youth Mental Health

Child and youth mental health has been an important part of my research and practice. At UNICEF, I worked globally on MHPSS within Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, and from 2021–2023 co-chaired the Global Mental Health Action Network’s Child & Youth Working Group. My PhD also connected me with organisations providing psychosocial support to children conceived through conflict-related sexual violence and their mothers in Rwanda, strengthening my interest in bridging GBV and MHPSS.