A community development practitioner with roughly thirteen years experience, I've worked with a range of local and national organisations, primarily centring my work on anti-racist initatives, programmes for social inclusion, digital literacy for the elderly, youth anti-homelessness projects, and services supporting queer inclusion. Currently I teach on a part-time contact at the University of Glasgow, whilst finishing my Ph.D. over at the University of Edinburgh. In addition, I continue to volunteer with anti-racism initatives (including programmes addressing anti-Roma and anti-gypsyism in Glasgow), and run a Community Hub - Foodbank Partnership in Edinburgh's Tollcross area. 

I'm eager to engage in research that exmaines how individuals, community campaigns, and organisations have sought to navigate, challenge, adapt to, or oppose austerity. I'm also interested in supervising projects that relate to social inclusion, community work, hyperlocalised initatives and community organising, and dialogical approaches to education in informal and non-traditional settings. 

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M.Ed. Youth Work, Adult Education, and Community Development:

- Sabre Jones (2021/22): Researching the experiences of transgender and non-binary people in community, social movement and activist organisations and campaigns in Scotland

- Mengzhe Li (2021/22): Exploring the impact of meaningful learning on adult education

- Paria Goodarzi (2021/22): Exploring the place of socially engage art in community project practice in relation to migration and social justice

- Yingwen Yang (2021/22): Critical Reflections on Inequalities in Community Development and Adult Education (in China)

- Yujie Zhou (2021/22): Continuing Education for Chinese employees of Stated-owned enterprise 

-  Aoifee Deery (2021/22): Exploring the relationship between young people in the north west of Glasgow and power

B.A. Community Education:

- Fairooz Nangarhari (2021/22): Review into Asylum Claims for Asylum Seekers when Fleeing Persecution to the UK 

- Jackie McColm (2021/22): Can Burlesque be used as a way to deflect the male gaze and empower women?

- Holly Bates (2021/22): Benefits and positives of online community development

- Olivia Ndoti (2021/22): How do we create a sense of belonging for refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland?

M.Ed. Youth Work, Adult Education, and Community Development:

- Wing Cheong Kwok (2020/21): Chinese Youth Work in the United Kingdom: Critical Pedagogy as Mind Liberation?

- Adebolaji Nimyel (2020/21): The Impact of Lifelong Learning for Asylum Seekers and Refugee People in Glasgow from a CLD Perspective. Role of the Third Sector in their Empowerment 

- Lauren Durward (2020/21): The Transformational Potential of Student Support: An Enquiry into Higher Educational Institutions’ Concern for Student Emotional Wellbeing 

- Siqi Qiao (2020/21): Exploring the Family Volunteering from the Professional Perspective of Social Workers

- Ardis Onnerfors (2020/21): Where do the Quiet Gays Go? 

- Beatriz Pinharanda (2020/21): An analysis of power dynamics in co-creating initiatives between cultural institutions and vulnerable migrant communities 

- Donatella Olisterno (2020/21): Limitations for Women in Addiction Accessing Recovery Treatments 

- Nicole Flynn (2020/21): A comparative study into young parents’ experiences within traditional forms of support and participant led support: Are participant-led support services the way forward in community learning and development? 

- Lisa Brawley (2019/20): Care experience young people and educational outcomes

- Haruka Hanabusa (2019/20): Volunteering in Japan post-natural disasters 

- Benjamin Raw (2019/20): Cycling iniatives and connectivity in Glasgow's areas of multiple deprivation

- Monica Marshall (2019/20): Inclusion of eldery participants in Renfrewshire's sports clubs

- Antonia Legand (2019/20): International exchanges and cross-cultural education's impact on German youth. 

M.Ed. Youth Work, Adult Education, and Community Development:

- Theoretical Frameworks for Practice (EDUC5946)

- Practice and Policy Inquiry (EDUC5944) 

- Empowerment and Social Change (EDUC5408) 

- Educational Approaches to Community Learning and Development (EDUC5407) 

- Practitioner Research Project (EDUC5945P)

B.A. Community Education:

- Popular Education: Theory and Practice (EDUC2077) 

- Challenge, Change and Action (EDUC2078)

- Introduction to Research (EDUC3081)