I am a Postgraduate Researcher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, currently completing a PhD exploring social exclusion and 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 and exclusion 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 different fields, most notably psychology and social policy.

Before 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. There 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.

I received a first-class honours BSc in Psychology from the University of Sussex in 2019, and in 2020 graduated cum laude with a double-degree MSc in Public Policy and Human Development, awarded jointly by Maastricht University and the United Nations University-MERIT, specialising in social protection policy. 

I am broadly interested in the intersection of psychology and social policy, and taking a social ecological approach to understanding the relationships between social (policy) context, wellbeing, and resilience. 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.