About

I am currently a PhD candidate at Cardiff University’s School of Geography and Planning. My PhD topic – ‘Gender and climate justice: informal street and market traders in Dar es Salaam’ – seeks to address a current disconnect in urban informality, gender, and climate justice scholarship. To do so, I am working in collaboration with Equality for Growth, a Tanzanian NGO that supports the rights of female market traders in urban Tanzania through a location-specific case in Dar es Salaam. I aim to advance academic understandings of gendered responses to climate-related shocks and adaptations by traders and implications for gender and climate equitable urban policy. My PhD work is supported by a collaborative Doctoral Training Partnership between Cardiff University and Equality for Growth funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.

Beyond my doctoral study, I have spent the past decade working in international development and humanitarian programming. As a result of this work I am interested in critically examining the interface between the delivery of international aid and the everyday lived realities explored in my research. In recent years I have worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.   

I am open to exploring research collaboration, consultation opportunities, and writing commissions. Please do get in touch.

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