I have a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cape Town (UCT) which focused on birth as a political site inscribed by a plethora of diverse power relations and traced the possibilities for agency, resistance, voice, and bodily empowerment within South African birth stories. After my PhD, I held two postdoctoral fellowships, including one based at the Women's Health Research Unit (School of Public Health) at UCT. In 2014 I was awarded a prestigious Research Career Advancement Fellowship which was hosted by the African Gender Institute at UCT. In 2018 I took up a Senior Lectureship in Sociology at the University of Pretoria and was awarded a three-year Competitive Support Grant by the National Research Foundation. 

I have published widely in a range of internationally-recognized social science, feminist, methodological, and sociological journals, including: Qualitative Research, Health, Risk and Society, Feminist Theory, Feminist Anthropology, Signs and Feminism and Psychology. My book monograph: 'Bodies that Birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics' was published by Routledge in 2018. I have also published a number of book chapters, book reviews and opinion pieces. 

I am a Co-Editor of the Journal for Gender-Based Violence and serve on the editorial boards of Feminist Theory, Feminism and Psychology, and Methods in Psychology. 

My most recent work is focused on obstetric and reproductive violence as well as broader questions of feminist reading and writing practices.