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My research has been interdisciplinary and draws on theory and methods from anthropology, human behavioural ecology and demography. I am motivated by research that promotes the wellbeing of girls and women, have expertise in qualitative and quantitative data collection, and a strong open science ethos. I aim for my research to be non-extractive and co-produced with collaborators and communities in study countries.

Currently, my research topics include fertility, religion, women's autonomy and empowerment, social support networks and women and children's wellbeing. I am particularly interested in cross-cultural variation in women's support networks, including but not limited to support for childcare, and the importance of these networks for women and their family's physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Increasingly, I am keen to explore the impact of disasters such as flooding on women's autonomy and empowerment, and whether support networks help in navigating these disasters.

My PhD explored variation in the provision of resources and care to children under 5-years from parents, extended kin members and non-kin in rural Tanzania, and analysed potential inequalities in child nutritional status resulting from this variation. I addressed my research questions using a mixed methods approach, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data in north-western Tanzania in collaboration with the Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR).

Since 2020 I have worked on the "Evolutionary Demography of Religion" project, leading study design, data collection, and data cleaning and management in Malawi in collaboration with the Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU); and co-leading in Bangladesh, India, The Gambia and the USA. I am now analysing these complex multi-sited data for research publications. In 2022, I worked on the 'DREAMS Intervention Evaluation' project. DREAMS aimed at reducing HIV among vulnerable adolescent girls and young women in several countries. My role involved analysing qualitative data with intervention implementors in Kenya to assess how well the intervention was adapted to local context.

I am a member of the Evolutionary Demography Group and Population Studies Group in the Department of Population Health.