I am a political anthropologist researching conflict and peace, migration, displacement and diasporas, and the politics of memory and loss.

I have conducted ethnographic research in Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and the UK, including multi-sited, transnational and trans-border research between Cyprus and the UK. My research covers a wider range of interconnecting topics, including nationalism and anti-nationalism, intra-communal violence, memory and temporality, the social construction of silence(s) and ‘unofficial histories’, (post)colonialism and transnationalism. 

My  book Diasporic Futures: Temporality and Hope in the Transnational Politics of London Cypriots (2025, Edinburgh University Press) is the first book based on long-term transnational fieldwork conducted both in the UK and Cyprus. It breaks away from the diaspora/homeland dichotomy, forging new insights into how this binary can be challenged methodologically and conceptually. The book introduces new ways of understanding transnational politics and belonging by investigating how political projects of nationalism, (post)colonialism, and state-building regulate diasporic temporalities, while also presenting Cypriots of the diaspora as both memory activists and future makers.

Connected to a divided island, British Cypriots have participated in the reproduction of conflict and partition but have also been active agents of peacebuilding and reconciliation. Focusing on the latter, Diasporic Futures examines how surges of hope at historical points, which make alternative futures appear possible, define and transform the present and past of the diaspora. It traces these transformations by focusing on Cypriotism, an alternative to ethnic nationalism, through experiences of political violence and migration, the ‘unofficial’ history of the Cypriot Left, inter-generational dynamics and the politics of memory, digital politics, and border-crossings. It applies a temporal framework and proposes that diasporas and transnationalism –often analysed through an emphasis on space– must also be understood through an investigation of time. The book argues that diasporas do not linearly exist, but are made, reorganised or enervated in and by time, aggregating at particular historical points and dissipating at others. Although imagined as anchored in the past and ‘out of sync’, diasporas are also horizonal, made by their orientations towards the future and a politics of hope.

My research has been funded by the British Academy, the British Council/Newton Fund, the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy (DfE)/ Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).

I have contributed written pieces for and made appearances on various media platforms, including openDemocracy, Allegra, BBC Radio Ulster, Greek National Television.

ANT1001: Being Human: Culture and Society (convenor)

ANT2030: Skills in the Field: Ethnographic Methods (convenor)

ANT2032/3145: Conflict and Peace in Comparative Perspective (convenor)

ANT2035/3148: Migration, Displacement and Diasporas (convenor)

ANT3152 Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope

ANT7007: Advanced Anthropological Methods

ANT7008 Advanced Anthropological Perspectives (convenor)

PhD Supervision

Current PhD projects:

• Esther Neira Castro: Health and Stigma of Migrant Women in the Colombo-Venezuelan Borders (Principal Supervisor)/ NINE-ESRC funded.
• Heidar Al-Hashimi: Pathways to Refugee Family Support: An explorative study on the Family Support Services provided to Syrian and Iraqi refugee families and their children in Ireland (First joint supervisor)/ DfE-funded.
  
• Judith Atwell: An Ethnographic Challenge to Resettlement as a "durable solution" for Refugees (First joint supervisor)/ DfE-funded.
• Ayden Cox: Family Preservation, and Feminist Networks of Solidarity in Borderspaces (Second supervisor)
• Melek Kaptanoğlu: Identity,Politics and Peacebuilding Performances in Cyprus (Second Supervisor)
• Morgan Mattingly: Expanding and Evolving Education Resources for Refugees: From Camp to Resettlement (Second Supervisor)

Previously supervised PhD Projects:

• Brianna Griesinger: Narratives of Peruvian feminist identity in pursuit of reproductive justice (Second Supervisor) -completed in 2025
• Jamie McCollum: An anthropological analysis of the Kurdish diaspora & democratic confederalism: Beyond nationalism and the nation-state?/ DfE-funded (Primary Supervisor) -completed in 2024
• Niamh Small: The middle ground and the manifestation of a symbolic Northern Irish identity / DfE-funded (2nd supervisor) -completed in 2024
• Augusto Soares: Tracking Online Political Sociality in Northern Ireland: Social media engagement in a context of persistent antagonism and increasing diversity (Primary Supervisor) completed in 2023

• Savannahah Dodd: Conflict, Photography and Ethics in Northern Ireland (Primary Supervisor) completed in 2023
• Chiara Magliacane: Youth Conflict-Related Trauma through Generations. An Ethnography on the Relationship between Health and Society in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland/NINE ESRC-funded (Primary Supervisor) completed in 2022
• Amanda Lubit: Refugees Welcome?: Refugee resettlement within the context of Brexit, sectarian identity and territoriality in Northern Ireland (Primary Supervisor) completed in 2022
• Jonathan Evershed: Lest We Forget: The politics of commemoration, loyalty and peacebuilding at the centenary of the Somme/ AHRC-funded (2nd Supervisor) -completed in 2017
• Nancy Anderson: Re-Imaging Belfast: Art and Policy in Post- Conflict Northern Ireland (2nd Supervisor) -completed in 2016
• Sinéad Lynch: Music, Peacebuilding and UNSCR 1325 (2nd Supervisor)
• Rachael Barbour: Conflict transformation through space transformation: mapping peace-building in Jerusalem and Nicosia/ DfE-funded (2nd Supervisor)

Other Advisory Roles:

• Dr Emma Soye (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 2024-27): “The bus as interface: Negotiating new differences in a transitional society” (Project Mentor)
• Savannah Dodd (Visiting Research Associate/HAPP): The Impact of Conflict Tourism on Local Communities in Belfast (Project Advisor) -completed in 2017