In late 2025, I launched a pilot project to understand community perceptions and key issues that require further research regarding the increasing militarization of climate disasters. This project aims to study how the lived experiences of local communities shaped and were shaped by the 2022 flood response across northern NSW by paying particular attention to the role of the Australian Defence Forces. I am currently recruiting participants for a research interview (in person or online) that will last up to one hour. You can register your interest here. 

In October 2025, I published a book with Bristol University Press as part of their series Global Migration and Social Change. The monograph proposes a new conceptual approach to understanding the logic and practices underpinning military-humanitarian intervention: debilitating mobilities. Drawing from empirical data collected in Brazil as part of the state response to Venezuelan migration, I demonstrate how mobility governance operates under the guise of humanitarian care. You can access the book here and make a request to your local library to purchase it!

As part of the Author Fellowship in Residence program with the Migration Politics journal at the University of Amsterdam, I developed a research article that examines the role of comfort in humanitarian spaces of care. You can read it here. Alongside this, I hosted a round-table discussion in 2025 with experts in the field to discuss this issue and how we might move forward to consider comfort in emergency design. More info on the discussion here. We are now co-authoring an interdisciplinary publication concentrating on the notion of comfort. 

For the academic year 2024-2025, I conducted a pilot project at the Collegium Helveticum to investigate Queer Migrant Mobilities. The aim was to further understand the everyday spaces in which migrants, particularly international students, experience a sense of belonging or exclusion. This project sheds light on these experiences at the intersectionalities of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and citizenship. More info here

In 2023, I worked with an international team across Australia, Canada, and New Zealand to study the settlement experiences of migrants in rural cities. This project is part of CERC Migration and Integration at the Toronto Metropolitan University. We found key concerns related to forming meaningful relationships that contribute to belonging, as well as everyday aspects that shape feelings of welcome. More info here