I am a feminist geographer with expertise in gender, migration, and skilled mobility. focusing on international students and skilled migration across Asia, Europe and North America. I have led several funded projects, contributed to teaching research methodologies, and engaged in public policy discussions. I am widely published, bridging academic inquiry with societal impact.
I am a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Director of the Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) at The Open University. Before starting at the Open University, I held postdoctoral positions at leading universities in Singapore and Canada. In my pre-academia career, I worked as a programmer and IT consultant in Canada.
My research interests focus on the interplay between gender, class, education, and skilled mobility. I reorient gender and migration research by drawing on migrant experiences to understand patriarchy and other structural inequities in the receiving countries. Empirically, this work has stretched across South Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, the UK and the EU to examine the mobility of international students and highly skilled migrants within academia, the IT sector, and Finance. My recent research examines the colonial connections of migration into and from the UK using creative methods.
My teaching interests focus on geography and migration studies, particularly in research methodologies, gender, and mobility. I strive to guide students in exploring the intersections of gender, migration, work and education.
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