My research lies at the intersections of feminist theory, postcolonialism and critical security studies. It is centrally concerned with understanding how systems of state violence are reproduced and naturalised through constructions of gender, race and class, and how feminist and other liberation movements can transform those systems. I am particularly interested in feminist contestations of, and complicities with, militaristic and colonial institutions of liberal governance; counterterrorism as a gendered, racialised and classed modality of state violence; and the tensions between liberal and radical, revolutionary and abolitionist approaches to social justice. 

I joined the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in Global Politics in 2024. Previously, I held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, and prior to that worked as a Research Officer at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. I hold a PhD in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have previously taught at LSE and King's College London.

Before re-joining academia, I worked in various research and policy roles, including as an adviser on gender and conflict issues for the international peacebuilding NGO Saferworld, as a member of the management committee for Gender Action for Peace and Security UK, and as a Parliamentary Researcher in the House of Commons.