I am a lecturer in economic geography in Lancaster Environment Centre, with a specialism in social justice, property rights and food production. I engage with the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and feminist and decolonial theory to explore how agriculture and fisheries have shaped the politics and economics of Britain.

I am available to supervise PhD students interested in working on land, economics, farming, fisheries and food production from feminist or postcolonial standpoints.

My research is broadly concerned with asking what it means to take the agrarian origins of capitalism in England seriously, both materially and epistemologically. This question unfolds through the study of three research areas.

First, I am interested in understanding how economic organisation evolved from agrarian origins in England, and what this tells us both about British society (and British colonialism) and capitalism as an economic order. Here, I use postcolonial theory to try to understand the origins of class inequality in England, and what it means to root our understanding of class and resistance in rural, as well as urban, struggles.

Second, I am interested in how changing agricultural technologies, particularly the use of organic chemicals for fertilisation, have influenced economic organization and theories of political economy in Britain. I'm interesting in exploring how our relationships with, and access to, nitrogen and phosphorous are built into both heterodox and orthodox economic thought, and influence how we understand the economy.

Finally, I'm keen to see how we can imagine and engage otherwise with both land and economic thought through radical approaches to pedagogy. To this end, I conduct research on effective methods for land-based social and political education.

I'm interested in what sub-altern and post-colonial theory can tell us about the 'colonial core'. As such, I conduct research primarily in the UK, but work closely with Majority World academics, theories and movements, particularly in Brazil and Mexico. With colleagues across Latin America, I am currently working on the UK strand of the project "Socioterritorial Movements in Comparative Perspective" comparing agrarian movements around the world.

I am part of the LEC Political Ecology research cluster and a founding member of the Political Ecology of Agrarian Transitions (PEAT) research group.

I am course convenor of the level 2 Economic Geography module in LEC, which teaches economic geography from feminist and postcolonial standpoints, and level 1 Society and Space, which is an overview of the key themes in human geography. I co-convene Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century with James Fraser.

I am particuarly interested in the expansion of education and creative educational methods. As such, I also contribute to the Sustainable Agriculture and Responding to Environmental Challenges modules of the JWL BA in Sustainable Development: this is a free online degree designed for and delivered to students in refugee camps across the world. I have delivered pedagogic sessions at Black Mountains College, The MST's Florestan Fernandes National School, The Apricot Centre, The Plot, Kindling Trust, and have collaborated with Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca. I am currently working with the Landworkers' Alliance to develop socioeconomic and political education for agroecology.

Along with Sally Cawood and Kumud Rana, I run the Many Worlds Film Club, screening international films and discussions on the topic of environment and social justice at the Gregson Community Centre in Lancaster.

I joined Lancaster Environment Centre in 2022 as a Lecturer in Economic Geography. Before this, I was a Lecturer in Human Geography in Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences at Nottingham Trent University from 2020 to 2022, where I led the human geography content of the geography degrees, and a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow from 2018 to 2020, where I designed and co-convened the Earth Futures MSc.

I studied a DPhil in Economic Geography at the University of Oxford, an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy also at Oxford, and a BSc in Environmental Policy at the London School of Economics.

I am a qualified Playworker, and have worked with children in a range of play settings. This includes out of school clubs for 5-16 year-olds in South and East Yorkshire; free youth schemes in Edmonton, North London; the family-run Love Kids children's home in Nkoranza, Ghana; the Toybox charity for children of inmates at Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow; and Global Link in Lancaster, working with the children of refugees and asylum seekers. I am very interested in haptic, experiential and non-traditional learning, for both children and adults, particularly in outdoor settings.