I am a Lecturer in Early Childhood Education. My interdisciplinary areas of interest focus around children’s agency, childhood geographies, the Global South, and social & environmental justice. I have had the opportunity to learn from research in the UK, as well as cross-national work with colleagues in India and Brazil.

Prior to my academic journey, I have worked in think tanks and policy organisations across India on issues related to social justice, education, policies related to street children and children’s right to food.

Prior to joining the University, I worked in an interdisciplinary UKRI-NERC project ‘Voices of the Future: Collaborating with young people to reimagine treescapes’ focused on mapping activities and impact of environmental, and landscape associated organisations in the UK that engage young people, with a focus on the inclusion of young people from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

My doctoral ethnographic research explored children's experiences with agency in an indigenous community in Chhattisgarh, India. I unpacked children’s agency through a lens of relationality, illustrating how children’s agency is enabled with relation to their everyday physical spaces, material objects and social relationships. In my work, I draw from works of Indian and indigenous scholars to move beyond the Eurocentric frames of theorisation within childhood studies.

I teach on various modules within the Strathclyde Institute of Education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I also supervise Masters and PGR students.