Commentary
Why the LLE may not radically reform tertiary education – and how it might still move the dial
Why funding alone cannot deliver lifelong learning, and how time, credit transfer and institutional change shape the possibilities.
Research
Migration, ageing and wellbeing.
I am a part-time PhD researcher in social gerontology at The Open University. My research explores how migration and settlement across the life course relate to mental health and wellbeing among older migrant women in the UK.
The project focuses on Caribbean-born women of African heritage and East Africa-born women of South Asian heritage. It brings together in-depth interviews and secondary quantitative evidence, with women’s accounts at the centre of the study.
I am interested in how individual lives are shaped by social conditions, and in what broad population categories can obscure about people’s experiences.
Articles, commentary and contributions
Selected writing
Article series
Understanding Generative AI Through Familiar Human Models
Reflections on AI at work through three familiar roles: the intern, the consultant and the collaborator.
Research contribution
The Coronation Challenge: CreaTech Report
The OU’s account of its contribution to the CreaTech research initiative, in which I participated alongside Dr Lisa Bowers.
From the archive
Trustee Sam Toolan’s Report on a Field Visit to Bangladesh
A field report from visits to education and development projects in Bangladesh during my time as a trustee.
Research commentary
Paying attention to racism and not just race in research with older ethnic minority people
Notes from a British Society of Gerontology event on racism, evidence and the under-representation of racially minoritised older people in research.
Public discussion
Health outcomes of racially minoritised older people
A reflection on a discussion I chaired with Professor James Nazroo and Dr Halima Begum about later-life health inequalities, racism and evidence.