I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate as part of the Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations Centre (JUST Centre) at The University of Manchester. My focus is part of the 'Build and Social Infrastructure' component of the project.

I very recently completed my PhD in Human Geography also at Manchester. My project, ‘A Climate of Precarity: The Politics of Climate Change and Agrarian Development’ unpacked how histories of uneven agrarian development – shaped by histories of colonialism, post-independence modernisation, and neoliberalism – intersect with climate change in Sri Lanka. Drawing on a range of qualitative and archival research methods, my dissertation illustrates how conditions of agrarian precarity under climate change are historically produced, unequally experienced, and resisted. My findings contribute new theoretical and empirical insights to support more just agrarian futures under climate change and builds the foundations for future work in Sri Lanka concerned with rural development under climate change.

More broadly, my research interests span critical agrarian studies, political ecology, water politics, and development alternatives. I aim to approach my research in a critically constructive, grounded, and reflexive manner and I am interested in exploring methods and approaches that challenge the power imbalances imbued in research. The findings of my research have been published in Global Environmental Change, Geoforum, Political Geography, and Polity.

During my PhD, I was lucky enough enjoy the supervision and support of Dr. Nate Millington, Dr. Alison Browne, and Prof Erik Swyngedouw. I am a member of the Society and Environment Research Group (SERG) and the Agrarian Change and Political Ecology Research Group (within the Global Development Institute).

Contact: [email protected]

• Climate Change: Sciece and Society (second year undergraduate students. Supporting Dr. Rob Bellamy)

• Global Urban Futures (third year undergraduate students. Supporting Dr. Nate Millington)

• Human Geography tutorials (first year undergraduate students)
• Nature, Society and Social Power (third year undergraduate students. Supporting Prof. Erik Swyngedouw and Dr. Mark Usher)
• Researching Manchester (first year undergraduate students. Supporting Dr. Pete Ryan and Dr. Martin Dodge)

Research Assistant (2022/2023):

• Editorial Support for a book project "Aesthetics and the City" (Supporting Dr. Joe Blakey and Dr. Amy Barron)