pathway: Security, Conflict and Human Rights Alumni

My research relates to child asylum-seekers based in the UK without parent or guardian. Informed by the “new” sociology of childhood, I conduct research with children, understanding children as active in the construction and contestation of their own lives and of society. I explore critically concepts of agency, vulnerability, resilience and belonging within an asylum regime which is punitive and discriminatory. I am currently investigating participatory and creative research methods in the qualitative tradition.

My inter-disciplinary PhD research, drew on elements from criminology, sociology and law, used quantitative and qualitative techniques, from binary logistic regression to actor-network theory, to examine the controversies around Tasers and less lethal weapons in the UK.