I’m on the Oxford-Sir David Butler Graduate Scholarship and based at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). I also work as research assistant to Achim Steiner at the Oxford Martin School’s Security Futures Lab, a three-year research programme looking at how climate, technological, health and geopolitical risks interact and cascade, and how governments factor them into their national security strategies.

I studied Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol, where I wrote my dissertation on anti-populism in the Labour Party under Keir Starmer. I’ve also worked in political consultancy in London and Accra, and written on populism for the European Centre for Populism Studies.

My research interests are in epistemic security and populism: how algorithms and fragmented information environments shape what societies can know and agree on, and how the erosion of shared facts and trust in institutions feeds populist politics and weakens democratic resilience. I’m particularly drawn to the gap between how governments define security in their national security strategies and what citizens see as the biggest threats to their lives, which is a question at the heart of the Lab’s work on security as both material and epistemic.