I am a political theorist interested in questions of development. As such, my research examines the two-way relationship between political normativity - ideas such as justice, democracy, and political realism/idealism - and development. I have published on this in journals such as Social Theory and Practice and Progress in Development Studies.
I teach mainly on IDD's politics of development modules, as well as leading our distance learning programme. I currently organise the 'Governance and Politics of Development' research group, and collaborated on the department's recent book.
Previously, at the University of Manchester, I was a research associate at the ‘Effective States and Inclusive Development’ research centre. My PhD, also at Manchester, was “Towards a relational approach to social justice: liberals, radicals, and Brazil’s ‘new social contract’.”
I took a somewhat unusual route to international development, studying philosophy and music at Edinburgh, but became interested in development and international politics through activism in the area of UK asylum policy.