I am Lecturer in Global Urban Development at the University of Manchester. My research sits at the intersection of urban geography, political economy and development studies, and seeks to understand and address global urban inequalities.

The primary focus of my research is on cities in the global South, with a particular interest in urban Africa. My work is informed by an understanding of global development that disrupts traditional geographical binaries, and as such also draws on insights from cities in the global North. This research explores the socio-spatial outcomes of urban processes of commodification, dispossession and enclosure, and examines how city dwellers respond to, participate in and contest these processes.

This research has been funded by the British Academy with Leverhulme, the Feminist Review Trust and the ESRC with the Universities of Leeds and Manchester, and has been published in journals such as Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Prior to my current role, I was a Hallsworth Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Development at the University of Manchester, and a Teaching Associate in International Development at the University of Sheffield.

My non-academic writing includes articles for The Guardian, Novara and Tribune. 

My research interests include:

• Urbanisation and urban development
• Urban capitalism
• Urban poverty and inequalities
• Urban housing, land and real estate
• Urban social movements
• Urban theory
• Comparative urbanism

I am interested in supervising PhD projects in any area related to my research interests.