I am a social anthropologist working on childhood, education and parent-child relations.

In my work, I integrate my ethnographic research among indigenous people in the forested Nilgiri hills in South India (the Kattunayaka people, historically known as hunter-gatherers) with my work in Forest School and Outdoor Education in England and years of experience as an outdoor and environmental education instructor.

Alongside my academic research and teaching, I give public lectures and provide consultancy services to educators.

My research interests, public lectures and consultancy services focus on perceptions of the social and natural environment and their influence on:

- Children and childhood

- Family relations

- Teaching and learning

- Social and emotional learning

- Child development

- Perceptions of child rearing

- Marginalized societies and school programs

- Play and play objects

- The experience of aid and development initiatives