I am a Postgraduate Researcher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, currently completing a PhD exploring resilience in international students, funded by the ESRC through the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership. My interdisciplinary research uses mixed methods to understand the nature and extent of adversity faced by international students in the UK, their resilient adaption to this, and how this is all influenced by different factors nested within different social ecological layers. I integrate insights from diverse fields including Psychology, Sociology, and Social Policy.

Prior to joining the University of Brighton, I was a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Evaluation at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). During my two years at NatCen, I worked on mixed-methods evaluations of social policies and programmes in different domains, including education, health and wellbeing, transport, crime and justice, and communities. In this capacity I contributed to published reports for clients including the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, and What Works for Children's Social Care. I also delivered training on experimental, quasi-experimental, and theory-based evaluation methods.

Before this, I received a first-class honours BSc in Psychology from the University of Sussex, and graduated cum laude with a double-degree MSc in Public Policy and Human Development, awarded jointly by Maastricht University and the United Nations University, specialising in social protection policy. 

My research interests are broadly centred on the intersection of human wellbeing and the social (policy) context. For instance, I was first author on a paper in the Journal of Social Policy exploring the effect of Universal Credit of welfare benefit recipients' life satisfaction. Other interests include inequalities, social identy, community development, migration, and conditionality and eligibility in the 21st century welfare state.