University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
I am a Chancellor’s Fellow in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh. My research interests focus on urban development in the Global South, migration, infrastructures, the politics of the everyday and relationships between space and social identities.
I completed my PhD in Social Geography at University College London in 2015. Prior to undertaking my PhD, I was employed as an Associate Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand. I held a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, hosted jointly between the University of Johannesburg and the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, between 2016 and 2017 and was awarded an International Fellowship by the Urban Studies Foundation which supported a stint as a Visiting Fellow at LSE Cities between November 2017 and April 2018. Prior to joining ESALA I was a Newton International Fellow based in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield.