At the moment my scholarship and organising work broadly focuses on the political economy of housing and dismantling rentier capitalism.
I am a Housing Organiser for E16 Community Land Trust, an organisation working to build affordable housing and facilities in Canning Town and Custom House that are community owned and led.
In 2024, I published a book, Precarious Intimacies (Bristol University Press), about the impact of rental insecurity on the capacities of millennials to build and sustain relationships in London. I’ve published this research in different academic and scholar-activist journals too, including Antipode, Radical Housing Journal, and Gender, Place and Culture.
I was a researcher in Housing and Planning for the Green Group at the London Assembly, and before that fixed term Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. I got my PhD in Human Geography at QMUL, and before that I did an MPhil in Gender Studies and BA in History, both at Cambridge University.
I am also a musician, artist and community arts facilitator. I have spent almost two decades performing and recording music with different projects, including as a solo musician and with bands Suggested Friends, Chorusgirl and Now The Rose (formerly athabaska). I’ve taught a range of instruments to children, young people and adults in East London since 2013, and currently musically direct StockInSound, a choir for adults with learning disabilities in Stockwell. I also like comic arts - in 2020 I was funded by QMUL Centre for Public Engagement to run a comic arts workshop and create a booklet of my illustrations narrating interview data from my PhD. You can see some of these illustrations here. Sometimes I post comics on my blog at this site, too.
I’m deeply interested in youth liberation. I have volunteered with the children’s project at Akwaaba, a migrant social centre in Hackney, for six years, and have worked at adventure playgrounds in Hackney. Big up the child revvo!
For the last twelve years I have also been involved in political organising around Palestine and queer campaigning against the arms trade.