I have a PhD from the University of Cape Town (UCT) which focused on birth stories as sites of paradoxical agency. 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. My central research interests cohere around feminist theory and reproductive and obstetric violence, and I am working (with collaborators and peers) to develop research and policy-oriented work that centres and addresses reproductive, obstetric and gynaecological harms across a range of transnational contexts. 

I have published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, six book chapters and a substantial number of book reviews, reports, media articles and blog posts. I have edited two Special Issues. My articles have been published in Signs, Health, Risk & Society, Qualitative Research, Feminist Theory, Feminism & Psychology, Feminist Anthropology, and Hypatia. My book monograph, 'Bodies that Birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics' was published by Routledge in 2018. I have given more than forty conference papers and invited papers across the world. I have been the recipient of a number of awards, grants, and fellowships, including: a Visiting Fellowship at UC Berkeley (funded by the Mellon Foundation), a prestigious NRF Research Career Advancement Fellowship, and a 3 year competitive support grant from the National Research Foundaton (NRF).
 
I am Associate Editor of Feminism & Psychology, Co-Editor of the Journal for Gender-Based Violence and serve on the editorial board of Feminist Theory.