I am an interdisciplinary Medical Anthropologist, passionate about holistic wellbeing and different forms of healing. My research interests include living and dying in local and global health contexts, and novel qualitative methods and theory for applied health research. I have received a number of scholarships and awards for academic achievement and public engagement. I also love teaching, and have co-developed and taught qualitative research methods, ethics, and writing in my previous roles across the University of Oxford, including for the MSc Medical Anthropology, MSc Translational Health Sciences, and MSc Evidence Based Health Care.

I recently completed a Mildred Blaxter Fellowship, funded by the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. During the Fellowship, I took forward my doctoral work to challenge dominant narratives of dying, and explore how we can better understand 'quality' towards end of life. During my DPhil at the University of Oxford, I conducted a two-year sensory ethnographic and phenomenologically-informed exploration of living well with heart failure towards end of life in England. This research was funded by a Wellcome Trust studentship, affiliated with the Studies in Co-Creating Assisted Living Solutions (SCALS) project, and supervised by Professor Trish Greenhalgh and Dr Caroline Potter.

In mid-2022, I joined the Social Foundations of Medicine group at the ANU, where I am undertaking research into young people's journeys through mental health care. In my previous postdoctoral roles at the University of Oxford, I focused on research in global health, epidemics, and health policy, building from my DPhil in Primary Care and Medical Anthropology. I have been involved in diverse international research projects with the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at Oxford, and the World Health Organisation. These projects have included research into clinicians' experiences of caregiving, the development and role of clinical guidelines, and living and dying during high consequence infectious disease epidemics in differently-resourced healthcare contexts.

I have previously been a Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology at the ANU, and an Honorary Academic in the School of Nursing at the University of Auckland. I collaborated with the Te Arai Research Group, extending my understandings of and interest in death and dying in the context of New Zealand, and more specifically Maori end-of-life care and policy.