Publications
I publish in international peer-reviewed journals and books, as well as in formats for policy makers, practictioners and the wider public.

My recent publications have particularly focused on volunteering in humanitarian and development settings, and covered issues including citizenship, gender, international mobilities, youth, digital technologies, climate and dispacement.

I have also published on civil society, NGOs and development, engaging with debates around professionalisation, cosmoplitanism, environmental and global citizenship, and development education.

Reflecting my interests in qualitative and participatory methodologies, I have also published on approaches to development research, including on emotion in development research, life-history methods and participatory design.

To access my publications, you can visit either:

• Google Scholar
• Northumbria University Pure Information Portal

You can also find publications including policy briefs, working notes and other forms of outpurs on project websites, including:

• Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda
• Volunteering for climate adaptation and disasters

Selected recent publications

2024, The scale, forms and distribution of volunteering amongst refugee youth in Uganda, Population, Space and Place:

Geographies of volunteering have examined the relationships between people, places and forms of voluntary action, but there has been limited geographical scholarship on the scales, forms and distribution of volunteering amongst specific populations in different settings, particularly in the global South. This paper explores volunteering amongst young refugees in Uganda, and how it articulates with social inequalities within and between the spaces and places where young refugees live.

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2024, The reproduction of inequality through volunteering by refugee youth in Uganda, Voluntas:

Research confronting inequality in volunteering has mostly focused on the attribution of its benefits to different groups and communities, with little attention paid towards fundamental factors that shape such inequalities and how these intersect with volunteering opportunities. This paper highlights the importance of volunteering for young refugees in Uganda, as a means of both learning new skills and earning a livelihood. However, evidence suggests that not everyone has equal access to these opportunities, with inequalities primarily distributed along the lines of language, gender and education.

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2022, Uneven geographies of youth volunteering in Uganda: Multi-scalar discourses and practices. Geoforum:

However, despite the mainstreaming of volunteers as development actors, less attention has been paid to the unique local and national geographies of volunteering in global South settings. This paper explores how and why different ideas and practices of volunteering take shape and prominence in Uganda and how this impacts patterns of youth inclusion, inequality and opportunity. We show how a multi-scalar geography of volunteering enables us to build richer, more nuanced conceptualisations of volunteering in the global South that address the different ways global discourses, local histories, community organisations and social inequalities come together across space and time to produce uneven geographies of volunteering in particular places.

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