I am an interdisciplinary global health researcher, with a central focus on gender. I completed my PhD in human geography and an MPhil in International Education at the University of Cambridge with ESRC funding. I hold an EdM in International and Comparative Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education).
My research examines the life course emergence of educational and economic inequalities, and the impact of early women’s marriage (<18 years) on gender inequality.
I currently work on a project linking gender, sanitation and quality of life.
Before joining LSHTM, I worked on a joint University of Cambridge-UCL project investigating maternal and child health and human capital outcomes associated with women’s early marriage in lowland rural Nepal and rural India.
Prior to my PhD, I worked in international gender and education policy for 18 years, with the International Centre for Research on Women, UNESCO, the World Bank and Save the Children, finishing as Acting Director of ActionAid’s International Education Team. During secondments to Ministries of Education across Sub-Saharan Africa, I integrated gender into national policy, programmes and budgets.
Affiliations
Teaching
I have lectured on introductory statistics (geography), and given interdisciplinary seminars linking global health with women's early marriage, education, nutrition, mental health, and gender inequality.
I have also been an advisor on MSc theses, and a secondary PhD Supervisor.
Research
My research uses a bio-social framework to examine gender inequality across the life course and at different spatial and temporal scales.
My work aims to connect different aspects of women's lives, including the age at which they marry, their educational and nutritional status, and how differential access to water, sanitation and economic resources constrains women time-use, life opportunities and mental health.
My research uses a range of methods, from survey and time-use data to qualitative and participatory approaches.
Selected Publications
