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My research takes an interdisciplinary approach to education, social justice and human flourishing. I engage with contemporary theories across these domains, looking towards 'education for social wellbeing'. Currently, I am the Institutional Research Culture Lead at the University of Roehampton.
In 2021, I am Principal Investigator on five actively funded projects: (i) Sugarless Green (a health education intervention research programme), which is funded by Research England, QR Strategic Priorities Fund (ii) Gardening & Gums (a knowledge exchange health communication project about oral care, funded by The Cathedrals Group), (iii) The Potato Teeth Project (a third arm of the health education intervention on gardening and oral care) funded by Southlands Methodist Trust, and (iv) Reading for Cultural Meaning (a literary project funded by UKLA Literacy Association). Since November 2019, in addition to the grants above, I was awarded three British Academy Grants (UK-Australia Knowledge Frontiers Forum, Brisbane, 2019), and secured an additional cross-institutional research bid of £40,000 from The Cathedrals Group for a knowledge exchange project, 'Communiversity'.
Currently, I am the Director for Advance HE's Diversifying Leadership Programme' which aims to generate a leadership mindset for academic and professional staff from black and ethnic minority backgrounds across UK Higher Education institutions. In 2021 I was successful in winning two election campaigns firstly to the University Senate to serve as an Academic Representative at the University of Roehampton, and secondly as BERA Convenor of the Comparative and International Education Special Interest Group (SIG). In 2020 I was shortlisted out of 450 members of teaching staff across the university for the Academic Lecturer of the Year award by the Roehampton Students' Union (RSU). Presently, I am also a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education.

In my forthcoming book ‘Transmission of Colonial Values’ (Routledge, 2022), I examine the microcosm of power dynamics at the secondary education level, and from this establish a meta-theory of social consent which I dubbed the ‘hegemonies of knowledge’. This publication is part one of a trilogy of conceptual frames which seek to re-centre sociology from its core of ‘structure-agency’ onto one of ‘hegemonic consent’, and culminate in a ‘theory of activism’, to ground the social sciences as a tool for change.

Professional Affiliations
HEA (Fellow)
Higher Education Academy
SRHE (Member)
Society for Research into Higher Education
BERA (Member)
British Educational Researcher Association
UKLA (Member)
UK Literary Association
PESA (Member)
Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
PESGB (Member)
Philosophy of Education Society
of Great Britain
AARE (Member)
Australian Association of Research in Education
Comprehensive Future
Elected Steering Committee Member
(2018-19)

Leadership
Programme Director
Diversifying Leadership Programme
Advance HE, 2021-present
Elected Member University Senate
Academic Staff
University of Roehampton, 2021-2024
BERA SIG Convenor
Comparative and International Education
BERA, 2021- present
Student Success Coordinator
School of Education
University of Roehampton, 2020-present
Head of Year 1 & 2
School of Education
University of Roehampton, 2018-2020

Awards
Academic Lecturer Award
Roehampton Students' Union, Shortlisted, 2020
Diversifying Leadership Award
Advance HE, 2020
External Examiner Certification
Advance HE, 2020
Finalist: Best Paper Award
Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
Outstanding Conference Presentation
European Union Centres
RMIT University, 2014
Best Conference
Presentation Award
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Hong Kong, 2013