Professional biography
I am a Human Geographer and my specialisms lie at the interface of the social and the material. I am currently a Research Associate on the ESRC funded project Smart Cities in the Making: Learning From Milton Keynes (2017-2018). I am based at Oxford University, and work with colleagues at Oxford and at the Open University. I work with Prof. Sophie Watson (OU) exploring the practices of smart citizenship, with Prof. Parvati Raghuram (OU) on the work and employment relations in smart, and with the PI, Prof. Gillian Rose (Oxford), on the project's impact activities.
Prior to this, at the Open University, I was a Research Associate on the interdisciplinary Making Meaningful Metrics project led by Prof. Simon Bell which examined user engagement in smart transport solutions, and before that, with Prof. Sophie Watson in the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change investigating Buddhism in contemporary London. I also worked for a year as the Research Associate for the OpenSpace Research Centre supporting the development of external grant funding bids and managing profiling and dissemination activities. I have a PhD from the Department of Geography at the Open University (2009-2014). My doctoral research examined the role of plant genetic resources in a time of food security.
In the Department of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, I am a Co-Lecturer on the Geography module on QMUL's International Foundation Programme in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Prior to this, at the Open University, I was a Research Associate on the interdisciplinary Making Meaningful Metrics project led by Prof. Simon Bell which examined user engagement in smart transport solutions, and before that, with Prof. Sophie Watson in the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change investigating Buddhism in contemporary London. I also worked for a year as the Research Associate for the OpenSpace Research Centre supporting the development of external grant funding bids and managing profiling and dissemination activities. I have a PhD from the Department of Geography at the Open University (2009-2014). My doctoral research examined the role of plant genetic resources in a time of food security.
In the Department of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, I am a Co-Lecturer on the Geography module on QMUL's International Foundation Programme in Humanities and Social Sciences.