My current Leverhulme Trust funded research focuses on the potential of local industrial strategies as a site for network and coalition building for alternative socially-just and sustainable urban and regional economic plans. Alongside this project, £10k funding from the Bartlett Innovation Fund will enable me to work with Just Space and the New Lucas Plan group on a project to build networks and capacity for economic development policy 'from below'. A £15k UCL Public Policy Expert Engagement Award will also support a 'Learning Exchange' on local economic development between community groups in Tottenham and Durham.

My previous postdoctoral research focused on the community value of traditional retail markets in the UK (the Markets4People project), while my PhD research involved collaborations with several community and small business groups contesting commercial displacement in London. 

I am also Trustee (unpaid) of a Development Trust in Tottenham working to advance community- and business-led development in the West Green Road/Seven Sisters town centre for the benefit of people who live, work and use or shop in the area. The Trust has served as guardian of the Community Plan for Wards Corner and Seven Sisters Indoor Market (Latin Village), until the new Wards Corner Community Benefit Society is set up to deliver the project.

Building on my Markets4People research and work as a Trustee, a new £2k UCL Research Culture Award (Knowledge Exchange) will fund a community-based research project on markets as therapeutic spaces, including proposals for mental health, well-being and welfare support for minoritised communities in Haringey.