I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Southampton. My research explored the ethics, values, and practices of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian vegans in the UK. I was interested in how religiosity intersects the vegan experience and how religion and culture are negotiated and reshaped in response to modern ethical crises.

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My PhD was funded by the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership who are in turn funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UKRI (UK Research and Innovation). My supervisors were Dr Bindi Shah, Professor Emma Roe, and Dr Heidi Armbruster.

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My research interests include vegan studies, sustainability, the sociology of ethics, the sociology of religion, lived religion, late modernity, environmental sociology, and anthropology.

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I am now researching faith-based vegan activism as I am interested in the challenges faced by activists in Muslim contexts, as well as the strategies they employ to overcome those challenges.

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I am a qualitative researcher and adopt an interpretivist epistemology in my research. I have made use of semi-structured qualitative interviews, social media-based diaries methods, virtual participant observation, and ethnographic methods.

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