2018- Senior Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.

2016- 2019 ESRC Future Research Leader

2016-2018 Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.

2015-2018 Hallsworth Research Fellow, University of Manchester.

2013-2015 Lecturer in Globalisation, Trade and Industry (fixed-term), Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy in the Global Development Institute. An economic geographer by training (PhD, Clark University), I have been based at Manchester since September 2013.

My research explores the changing geographies of global development, with a specific focus on South-South trade and the pharmaceutical industry. Originally from Ireland, I have lived in the USA (and now the UK) and conducted research for various periods of time in India, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and South Africa.

I have recently completed a major ESRC Future Research Leader Award to support my project on "India's pharmaceuticals, local production and public health security in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative study". This is a 3 year award (Sept. 2016-Jan 2020) to conduct a comparative study of Indian pharmaceuticals and locally manufactured medicines in sub-Saharan Africa (also supported by a Hallsworth Research Fellowship from the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester).

My research interests include:

• Political economy of pharmaceuticals in the global South - trade, intellectual property rights, industrial development, and public health implications 
• South-South trade and rising powers
• Global value chains and production networks
• Shifting geographies of global development - economic, human, environmental - beyond a classic North-South divide
• Linkages between the economic and non-economic aspects of development

I teach on the following modules (either as course convenor or as guest lecturer):

• Industrial Competitiveness and Global Transformation
• Globalisation, Trade and Development
• Development Fundamentals
• Global Political Economy
• Development Fieldwork

I am particularly involved with the MSc Globalisation, Trade and Industry.

I am interested in advising highly-motivated PhD students whose interests broadly, or ideally closely, fit with the following:

• Political economy of pharmaceuticals in the global South - trade, intellectual property rights, industrial development, and public health implications 
• South-South trade and rising powers
• Global value chains and production networks
• Shifting geographies of global development - economic, human, environmental - beyond a classic North-South divide
• Linkages between the economic and non-economic aspects of development