I am an interdisciplinary researcher and project manager with a specialism in human rights. I have significant experience managing programmes of research and designing and delivering complex projects for a wide range of clients, with particular experience in the UK, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Recent work I’ve overseen includes an evaluation of the Equality & Justice Alliance’s work on legal reforms and protections for women, girls and LGBT+ people in the Commonwealth; a project for ActionAid evaluating a gender-inclusive tax justice project delivered in Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and Tanzania; and an evaluation of the Human Dignity Trust’s Changing Laws, Changing Lives programme, focused on the reform of discriminatory sexual offences laws.

My background includes roles as the head of operations for an international education NGO, a senior project manager for an international research consultancy and a trustee for an INGO in Sri Lanka, equipping me with a diverse set of skills and experience. I am a PRINCE2 qualified project management practitioner, organised, quick on my feet and determined to hold myself, Starling Research and our work to the highest of standards. Personally and professionally I am committed to feminist, decolonial, anti-racist practice; I believe that the worlds we inhabit and work in have been shaped by a coloniality that has yet to be dismantled, and as such am guided by a critical eye on the ‘status quo’.

My doctoral research is focused on reproductive rights and freedoms in West Africa. Here, as elsewhere, I’m driven by the possibility of progress that sits in listening to those who have been historically marginalised, and this is something I bring to all our work. My interest lies in helping organisations really get to the heart of what it is they seek to address — always amplifying the voices of the most marginalised along the way — in order to generate the kind of insight that can lead to real change.