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I began my career as a primary school teacher and was then in civil service for over a decade before completing my PhD. My research is focused on understanding the ways in which children and adolescents survive and thrive when life is challenging, particularly in a digital world, and in relation to addressing child abuse/neglect/maltreatment and child protection. I take a multi systemic approach to understanding childhood resilience; in effect this means that resilience is not the responsibility solely of an individual or wholly an inherent character trait but resilience pathways arise and are travelled through the interplay of many systems all of which themselves require resilience enablers. I align myself with the Africa(n)-aligned/Africa(n)-centred research movement as most of my research is located in and carried out with Africans (primarily South Africa and Kenya) who are vastly under-represented in most literatures on childhood and adolescence.

Lecturer in Criminology, School of Criminology, University of Leicester.

I have been teaching across the schools of criminology, law, and sociology in various universities in the UK since 2015. In all settings the cohorts constitute students with diverse backgrounds and learning needs. Enhancing sense of belonging and inclusive learning have always been top priority for me.

Prior to joining the academia, I worked as a criminal justice recovery caseworker, Research Analyst for HSBC Bank-Global Payment, and a principal researcher for the Prince’s Trust – NEET project.

My academia is a space within which I make contributions to the wider society through research informed teaching. I am curious to explore contemporary social issues, legal controversies, and crisis in the penal systems, most of them have roots not in modernity but in historical development of the empires.