I am a PhD Researcher at the USG part of a project interested in understanding how Western Europeans improvise subsistence security with new and enduring insecurities in work, care and access to basic infrastructures. I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in order to study what practices, both formal and informal, go in to improvising security at the level of everyday life in the urban. 

My specific focus has been on housing insecurity in the private rental sector (PRS) as well as crises of quality and adequacy in public housing in the city of Dublin, Ireland. I use bodies of theory around/from welfare states, austerity, urban studies, housing movements and activist organising to centre the practices of urban inhabitants (tenants in particular) in my scholarship. I conducted scholar-activist fieldwork with Community Action Tenants Union (CATU), Ireland. Along with some colleagues, I also work with artistic methods, specifically, film in this project. 

My interest in improvisation in the urban is also something I worked on in my MSc thesis wherein I studied how university students in New Delhi, India improvised informal healthcare infrastructure in the face of the delta wave of Covid-19 in the summer of 2021. Through qualitative interviews I researched how certain temporally, spatially, and politically informed practices came out of these moment. 

I also like to think about: grassroots organisation, activism and strategy, informality, urban space and its potentialities, and the work of universities and scholarship in practising organising.