I am an interdisciplinary academic working at the intersection between politics and sociology and looking at the impact of colonialism and postcolonialism on the issues of conflict and underdevelopment. I analyse this reproduction of global inequality and peripherality in a variety of global shatter belts, but particularly sub-Saharan Africa and the Western Balkans. I draw links between the legal and identitarian heritage of colonialism proper and the more contemporary structures of coloniality which are maintained through the global capitalist world system. My theoretical background, which draws on world-systems, eco-feminist and dependency theory, is influenced by literature that originated in the Global South (Latin American and India) in order to decolonise academia and provide space for the voices of those who have little access to representation. My key research achievement is the role of my research on the development of the field of genocide studies by proposing and analysing the innovative category of postcolonial genocide.

 In relation to teaching, I have significant experience and have taught across all levels, but my main investment is in the MA Sociology and MA Social policy programmes, including the single honours year 2 and year 3 modules on neoliberalism and racial capitalism. I am particularly interested in decolonisation and internationalisation of the curriculum, and I have developed a number of key postgraduate modules, including the CORE modules: Advanced Research for Social change and Advanced Social Theory. As MA programme lead for Social Sciences, I have managed a team of colleagues from across the department and have developed strategies the purpose of which was to improve student experience of both home and international students.