I am a posthumanist researcher and Honorary Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (University of Manchester). I am also a member of the research group 'Anthropology of Life' (Collège de France). Trained as a veterinary practitioner and epidemiologist, I was awarded, in 2020, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social Science to establish myself as one of the few interdisciplinary social scientists in the field of animal health and well-being. My research sits at the intersection of the environmental and medical humanities, sensory studies, and STS and draws on sensory methods and approaches from history, ethnography, and the arts. My work explores human relationships with non-human animals, particularly cows, pigs, and chickens. 

I study how knowledges and practices about and with non-human animals are constructed  and respond to particular sociocultural, institutional and organisational circumstances. Along with contemporary debates in public health and animal ethics, I am interested in the intersection of human-nonhuman animal relations, health and well-being in farming. My recent Wellcome Trust project research was developed in the areas of digital sensing and cow care in farming in France and the United Kingdom, looking at how different sensing devices emerge, are shaped, and impact on the way humans understand and care for cows, human-cow relations, and the ethics of cow care.