I am an environmental social scientist with 20 years of experience working within the fields of natural resources governance and environmental planning, with a wide geographical focus that includes  South Africa, India, Tanzania, Nepal, and Norway. While my research interests are broad – spanning governance of coastal commons, freshwater resources, energy development, and responses to climate change uncertainties. I am particularly interested in how certain concepts and ideas emerge as modes of power and gain traction in environmental governance, and in exploring issues of social struggles over rights, access, and justice, as well as the politics of knowledge co-production. In my work, I build on insights from diverse strands of  scholarship, including political ecology, science and technology studies, and the literatures on socio-spatial relations, and I seek to empirically and theoretically contribute to these bodies of knowledge.

Teaching & Supervision: I am  responsielbe for two courses in environmental planning, and involved in supervising five PhD students. 

Research: I am currently involved in the proejcts BLUEPLACES, COASTREC and MAREA. Recnelty completed proejcts include TAPESTRY and PLANCOAST.