I am a human geographer interested in the relationships between disasters and development. My PhD research, conducted at King’s College London 2018-2022, was a qualitative investigation into the causes and impacts of landslides in Kalimpong District, West Bengal, India. Shortly after that, I worked as a Senior Research Associate at the United Nations University: Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) on a short-term project looking at the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers in Kerala, India. I then worked as Lecturer in Development Geography at Oxford Brookes University 2022-2024. My most recent role was as a postdoctoral research associate at King’s College London, working on multi-hazards and disaster preparedness.

My research interests centre on the geographies of disasters and development. This not only involves understanding how disasters impact development, for example by negatively affecting people’s livelihoods and sense of place, but also how disasters are themselves outcomes of development processes. My research locates "everyday problems" in what are often framed as “exceptional” disaster events. My PhD research highlighted connections between landslide disasters and road infrastructure development across The Himalayas. My research at UNU-EHS showed that the everyday struggles of domestic migrants to assert their citizenship rights in India worsened their experience of the pandemic. My current research is focused on the coproduction of knowledge and policy about disaster preparedness in low-income contexts.