My teaching focuses on diverse approaches to urban sustainability and developing critical research skills in architecture. I convene the module Ecocities, as part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s MSc Sustainable Lands and Cities. In this course, we interrogate predominant models of sustainable urbanism and explore ways in which just, inclusive and sustainable cities can be built. I also convene ESALA’s Post Graduate Research Methods course. This course explores critical research praxis in the architectural field and introduces students to the different ways in which research can be carried out. I also convene the module focussing on research for ESALA’s Landscape Architecture MA. I have also taught on the Mastercard Foundation’s Wits-Edinburgh Sustainable African Futures programme and the MSc Urban Strategies and Design.

My current project, Reimagining Urban Land, explores ways in which contemporary approaches to knowing, valuing and using urban land can be challenged by alternative knowledge systems and imaginations. The project, focussed on Johannesburg, South Africa, aims to incorporate informal and indigenous ways of knowing and relating to land into contemporary urban planning and development practices. The project is funded by the AHRC’s Catalyst Grant and runs between 2026 and 2029. The work builds on my long-standing research interests in processes of urban development, urban planning, and housing provision. I have also conducted research into the ways in which the UK government’s hostile approach to migration manifests in and shapes people’s experiences of urban space, and how forced migrants navigate cities in the UK. I am currently developing projects focussing on mobility governance and just transitions and explorations of the emerging and expanding field of domestic security and surveillance technologies. Through my research, I make contributions to global urbanism, post-colonial and decolonial theory, development and migration studies, and social and cultural geography.