I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Community Research and Development at the University of Wolverhampton. I am the lead researcher on a QR-funded project titled Who repairs what and why? Community labour after the riots. This research explores how communities, local organisations, and grassroots groups interpret and respond to the social unrest that took place across England in summer 2024, using an in-depth case study approach. It examines how these events are narrated and understood by different actors, and how practices of repair are negotiated in their aftermath through ethnographic research and qualitative interviews.

Prior to this, my research explored the emotional politics of fossil fuel transition, with a particular focus on coal and industrial populism in Central and Eastern Europe. For my PhD, I conducted year-long ethnographic fieldwork with a coal mining community in Upper Silesia, Poland, examining how the changing meanings and materialities of coal are being renegotiated amid postcolonial, post-socialist, and climate-driven transformations, and how these processes intersect with growing support for far-right political narratives and worldviews from below.

In addition to my role at Wolverhampton, I am also an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Geography at UCL, where I teach on the MSc Environment, Politics and Society programme.