I am an urban geographer whose work focuses on care, justice, sustainability, diverse economies and commons in the city. In 2017 I commenced my current role at Macquarie University as a lecturer in Geography and Planning and I am now a Senior Lecturer. As an emerging Urban Researcher I am interested in how urban life could be made more just and caring for people and planet. I am currently the coordinator of the Bachelor of Planning in the discipline of Geography and Planning in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. I am a member of the Community Economies Institute and the Community Economies Research Network (International).

In 2013 I recieved my PhD from the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. This work was published in Antipode, Urban Studies, Area, Geographical Research and Cities. In June 2018 I was invited to present a Keynote at the Institute of Australian Geographers Urban Study Group Symposium on Cities of Care. This paper is now published in Cities.  In 2018 my paper titled Care-full Justice in the City was released online by the Antipode Foundation as part of a curated collection connected to the Association of American Geographers Annual Antipode lecture. 

My research explores everyday practices of justice and care in the city with a specific focus on community  and urban commons. My current research focuses around seven main areas:

• Care-full Justice in the city
• A Feminist Ethics of care and the politics and practices of care
• Sustainability Practices
• Food justice and community food initiatives
• Diverse Economies, post-capitalist politics and commoning
• Urban Commons and urban planning theory
• Participatory methodologies and geographies of possibility

I teach into both the undergraduate and postgraduate planning degrees. In 2022 I am teaching:

• GEOP8020 Healthy Cities: Planning for Wellbeing, Equity and Diversity (S1)
• GEOP2080 Planning and Development (S1)
• GEOP3070 Urban Economies (S2)
• GEOP1040 Planning Systems (S2)

I am interested in supervising HDR students with the following research interests:

• Urban Studies
• Place-making
• A Feminist Ethics of Care and the politics and practices of care
• Diverse economies, post-capitalist politics and community economies
• Urban Commons and commoning
• Geographies of Justice and Activism
• Community Food initiatives and Food Justice