I am an Associate Professor in International Development in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences studying extreme poverty, inequality and governance. My work takes an interdisciplinary approach using ethnographic methods to examine the politics that shape development in South Asia. My current projects focus on how gender, ethnic and religious minority identity shape people's experience of exclusion, violence and poverty in Bangladesh. My work has been published in Development and Change, Critical Asian Studies, Development Policy and Practice, Development Policy Review, Journal of Development Studies, amongst others. 

Over the past 15 years, I led on projects and have been privileged to work with amazing colleagues and collaborators in Bangladesh to provide research and analytical support to a range of local/national and international institutions. This work was supported by development partners and national governments ministries (FCDO, UNCP, UNCDF, IDRC and Save the Children, Oxfam, APPGs in the UK and Bangladesh and the government of Bangladesh) and included research on social protection, financial inclusion and microfinance, extreme poverty and resilience, and political authority and violence in South Asia. 

I am also an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Development Studies and an editorial board member for World Development Perspective. 

1. Extreme Poverty and Inequality 
2. Dynamics of marginalisation (gender, ethnicity, religious identity, age and class)
3. Politics of contestation 
4. Civil society and NGOs
5. Ethnographic research and participatory research methods