Staff profile

I am an interdisciplinary researcher and PhD student currently working at the intersection of bioinformatics, ethnobiology, and medical anthropology.

My PhD project is supported by an ESRC studentship and considers geophagy – consuming soils, earths, and clays – practiced in the UK. Through "Grounded Guts: the Significance of Geophagy for its Practitioners in the UK", I aim to challenge views of the practice as a disease by asking how geophagy can be understood as a complementary and alternative medicine, looking at gut health, ecological knowledge, and soil-found microbes. 

Prior to my PhD at Durham, I studied Human Sciences at the University of Oxford and developed my dissertation on geophagy through an MRes in Anthropology at University College London. I have also worked as a research assistant in medical sociology for Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.

I am always happy to receive emails about potential collaborations.

Teaching

• Critical Medical Anthropology
• Ethnobiology
• Science and Technology Studies
• Human Ecology
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
• Geophagy
• Microbiomes
• Soil