My research interests straddle disciplinary boundaries and I have drawn on a range of theoretical approaches in my work, including: feminist materialist, phenomenological, and intersectional approaches as well as poetic, voice-centric, and discursive methodologies. My central research interests cohere around feminist theory, embodiment studies, and reproductive and obstetric violence, and I am working (with collaborators and peers) to develop research and policy-oriented work that centres and addresses reproductive, obstetric and gynaecological harms across a range of transnational contexts. 

I have published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, six book chapters (two more forthcoming in 2025) and a substantial number of book reviews, reports, media articles and blog posts. I have edited two Special Issues. My articles have been published in Signs, Health, Risk & Society, Qualitative Research, Feminist Theory, Feminism & Psychology, Feminist Anthropology, and Hypatia. My book monograph, 'Bodies that Birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics' was published by Routledge in 2018. I have given more than forty conference papers and invited papers across the world. I have been the recipient of a number of awards, grants, and fellowships, including: a Visiting Fellowship at UC Berkeley (funded by the Mellon Foundation), a prestigious NRF Research Career Advancement Fellowship, and a 3 year competitive support grant from the National Research Foundaton (NRF). 

Currently I am co-editing a volume on the global politics of caesarean section with colleagues from Switzerland and the United States. I am also working on a book project (currently under contract with Bloomsbury Academic) and in the early stages of putting together a new reseach project titled: 'Violent Intimacies: Birth and Dilemmas of Care' (VIOLINT). 

My research interests are primarily in the area of reproductive and obstetric violence. I am interested in questions surrounding consent, coercion, and care in relation to birth and enjoy using a wide array of theoretical and philosophical tools to think through conceptual tensions. I also have interests in creative and experimental qualitative methodologies, such as, for example: poetic methods of analysis, collective memory work, and voice-centric analytic tools. I am Associate Editor of Feminism & Psychology, Co-Editor of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence and serve on the editorial board of Feminist Theory.  

I am currently only open for doctoral supervision relating to projects that are specifically focused on obstetric and reproductive violence. Please feel free to reach out via email if you have an idea for a PhD project along these lines.