I am a Research Ireland-Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Criminology in University College Cork (UCC). My current project is titled 'Trajectories and Experiences of Reproductive and Maternal Healthcare for migrant and other racialised women and pregnant people in Ireland' and is interested in understanding how trajectories of migration and experiences of racialization affect ethnic minority people's experiences of pregnancy and reproductive and maternal health outcomes in Ireland. I am also interested in learning about how the presence and cultivation of social networks in their trajectories of migration affect their experiences of pregnancy in Ireland. 

As a feminist sociologist, I have previously worked on an HEA funded project Women of the Borderlands: A Walking Biographical Study of Women’s Everyday Life on the UK/Irish Border under the mentorship of Dr. Theresa O'Keefe. In the past, I have collaborated with artist Eimear Walshe, on an Arts Council of Ireland, funded project to commemorate the legacies of Irish-Indian suffragette Margaret Cousins. Between July 2020 and April 2021, I worked as a Research Assistant on a World Health Organization funded project on Abortion Policy Implementation in Ireland. This project comprised of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and was led by Prof. Joanna Mishtal (University of Central Florida). This study is going to inform the ongoing Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act of 2018. I was also a co-organiser of Ireland’s first Working-Class Studies Conference in November 2021. I have worked as a Research Assistant on an Irish Research Council funded project titled Negotiating Difference on a Shared Island: Agonism, Commonality or Critical Constitutionalism, led by Prof. Jennifer Todd (UCD). 

I completed my PhD in Sociology under the supervision of Dr. Alice Feldman at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin. My dissertation titled ‘Break the Cage: Women's Body Politics of Respectability and Autonomy in India and Ireland’ involves an asymmetric comparative analysis of two movements - Pinjra Tod (right to mobility in India) and Repeal the Eighth (reproductive rights in Ireland). 

My research interests sit at the intersection of the sociology of body and race and migration and include themes around the politics of the body, technologies and practices of bordering, reproductive justice and contemporary feminist movements.