I am a Social Researcher existing betwixt disciplines and countries. I occupy a somewhat liminal disciplinary space of an outsider intersecting Education, Sociology, and Social Geography. In geography (and politics) I exist in England, Portugal and India.

My work includes a range of ‘themes’ held together by an interest in what determines access, or lack of, to knowledge and resources, and the institutions and structures (formal, informal, other) where power negotiations take place.

Some of the broad questions I ask relate to:

Sociology of knowledge and (Higher) education: how ideas are transmitted formally and informally, and used to make sense of the world; – how associated skills are developed with the aim to negotiate our existence.

Social Geographies and spaces of ‘becoming’ and ‘being’: what does occupying a certain geography mean to individuals and how does it formulate their senses of self, belonging, disbeloning and potential resistance.

Work in Society: factors that affect and contribute to decision-making about future trajectories

This blog is personal and has nothing to do with my employer at any point.