As a social scientist with a multidisciplinary background, I am interested in the lived experience of migrants and those seeking sanctuary and refuge. My research is situated at the nexus of migration and displacement, inequality, urban multiculture and diversity, language/language learning and the in- and exclusionary mechanisms of ‘integration’ processes. My work explores emergent alternative, innovative and dynamic forms of solidarity across difference – particularly in the context of the global city and postcolonial migrant metropolis.  

My current research includes:

• Developing language learning opportunities for precarious migrant workers at HE institutions (PI, BERA Small Grants Award)
• UK reception policies and practices vis-à-vis Ukrainian refugees (with Prof Mette Louise Berg and Dr Jo Billings, UCL Grand Challenges)
• I am also working on the RES-WELL: Developing a toolkit for RESearcher WELLbeing project as a Postdoctoral Researcher.

I am part of the international research network FORUM (Forced Migrants from Ukraine in Transnational Europe: between Personal Agency, Civil Society and the State).