I am an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in more-than-human research and an 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 at the Collège de France. Trained initially as a veterinary practitioner and epidemiologist, I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2020.

My research unfolds at the intersection of the medical humanities, sensory studies, and science and technology studies (STS), and draws on relational and sensory approaches from history, ethnography, and the arts. Attentive to embodied, affective, and multispecies encounters, my work seeks to dislocate the human from processes of knowledge production. I explore how sensing practices with non-human animals take shape within socio-cultural, political, and ethical configurations, and how these practices, in turn, shape knowledge production.

I examine how practices and knowledges with and about non-human animals are co-produced within specific historical, socio-cultural, and material contexts. Engaging with contemporary debates in public health and animal ethics, I am particularly interested in the entanglements of human-animal relations, health, and well-being. My recent Wellcome Trust–funded research focused on digital sensing and cow care in farming contexts in France and the United Kingdom. This project traced how sensing devices emerge, are negotiated, and reconfigure ways of understanding, caring for, and responding to cows — reshaping human-cow relations and raising new ethical questions around social relations, care, responsibility, and consideration.