I am a researcher, writer and blogger with extensive experience in gender, urbanisation and international development; and research interests in internal migration with a focus on paid domestic work and decent work; and qualitative research methodologies, including storytelling methods.

A human geographer by training, I am currently a Research Fellow in the Cities Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, where I work on a range of projects related to women's and girls' economic empowerment including making unpaid care work visible in public policy, balancing paid work and unpaid care work for women's economic empowerment, exploring the impact of social protection on rural women's economic empowerment and the shifting roles of men and boys in addressing and gender-based violence. 

I have expertise in qualitative research methodologies and have undertaken a number of consultancy projects on women's rights, women's economic empowerment, social movements, maternal health and youth and fragility for organisations including ActionAid, FAO, GlobalOne2015 and Plan UK. I have also designed and delivered lectures on research methodology, gender and development - including urbanisation - for Undergraduate and Masters students, as well as researchers and practitioners.