I have won university and national teaching excellence awards (VUW, 2008 and Ako Aotearoa, 2010) for my course design and pedagogy, which focus on 'unsettling learners' knowledges' as a means to open up new ways of thinking, doing and being in the world. I particularly enjoy getting learners outside of the classroom to meet with practitioners, visit exhibitions and explore spaces pertinent to our course inquiry. Within the classroom, I collaborate with learners to build an inclusive, safe space for all, that enables them to do their best intellectual, embodied and creative work.

I enjoy postgraduate supervision and have worked with more than 150, Honours, Masters and PhD students to realise their research goals in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas: Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Tanzania, Zambia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Peru. I welcome all types of learners and also often co-publish with them. This work has been reognised by a New Zealand Geographical Award for Postgraduate Supervision.

At postgraduate level, I teach GEOG 418: 'Refugee Spaces: Emotional Geographies of Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement', and at undergraduate level, GEOG 312: 'race', gender and development, and GEOG 324: Research Project; Design and Methods. I also contribute to GEOG 217: Human Geographies Approaching our World and GEOG 112: (Re)Making Places: Development, Equity and Social Change.

If you're interested in postgraduate study with us in Geography or Development Studies, you can find out more here:
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/explore/postgraduate-subjects/geography/overview

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/explore/postgraduate-subjects/developmentstudies/overview

Please note that I am not accepting new PhD students in 2025 or the first half of 2026.