My teaching philosophy places students at the centre of their learning experience. They are encouraged to develop critical thinking while they take the lead in constructing scenarios that allow them to connect ideas, theoretical frameworks and methodologies to praxis. I value and recognise students’ professional and personal experiences as pivotal in developing their knowledge and independence of thought. In my modules, I encourage active participation, reflexive practices and the development of various academic and professional skills. My research-led teaching aims to foster critical thinking around the complexities,  multiple levels and actors involved in migration dynamics and governance.

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I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since June 2020. 

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Currently, I am the dissertation coordinator for all our MSc programmes at the Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University. ​​

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I regularly teach in different Summer Schools on migration:

• 2020 'Hacer investigación en migraciones en tiempos de pandemia', Curso de Verano sobre Migraciones y Movilidades III Edición 2020, SUDIMER-UNAM, 22 June 2020.

• 2019 ‘Regional mobility and migration governance in South America’ and Simulation exercise ‘Responding to crisis: Venezuelan displacement and the South American response’, Migration Policy Centre Summer School, European University Institute, 1 July 2019. 

• 2018 and 2019 - 'Global Governance and Forced Migration' and and ‘Migration Governance in South America', at the Summer School 'Global and Regional Migration Governance', University of Geneva. 

• 2018 'Understanding refugee and migrant integration, a cross-regional perspective' and 'Ethics of research with refugee communities' at the Summer School 'Refugee and Migrant Crisis: New Challenges of Integration', Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College Thessaloniki. 25 June - 3 July 2018.

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Previous Teaching Experience

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In 2020-2021 I was teaching the following modules at the School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London:

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Undergraduate

• GEG6147 Geographies of Forced Migration (convenor)

• GEG5128 Spaces of Uneven Development (convenor)

• GEG4004 Research Methods for Geographers and Environmental Scientists (contributor)

• GEG5103 Geographical Research in Practice (contributor)

• GEG6000 Independent Geographical Study (supervisor)

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Postgraduate​

• GEG7129 Migration and mobilities (contributor)

• GEG7107, GEG7108 and GEG7118 Dissertation (supervisor)

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In 2017-2018, I co-convened a module in the Global Political Economy MA, 'Business, Labour and Migration' with Genevieve LeBaron, at the University of Sheffield. In the Politics Department, I also taught the MA module POL6003: The Politics of Global Migration (Module Leader 2015 – 2017) and the level 3 undergraduate module POL3147: The Politics of Asylum.​

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I have also taught in the Department of Geography and for the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield:

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Level 1 Modules

• 2015 GEO163 Information and Communication Skills for Geographers – GTA

• 2012 - 2015 GEO151 Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography - GTA

• 2015 - 2016 The State of Sheffield Challenge, Faculty of Social Sciences.

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Level 3 Modules

• 2015 GEO336 Development & Global Change – GTA

 

PhD Modules – Faculty of Social Sciences

• 2014 – 2015 FCS670 Qualitative Methods for Social Science Research – GTA

• 2015 – 2016 FCS6100 Research Ethics and Integrity – Seminar Tutor

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During 2017 and 2018 I was Thesis Mentor as part of the ‘Think Ahead Programme’ at the University of Sheffield. I was recognised as a ‘Dedicated Outstanding Thesis Mentor’ in November 2017 and May 2018.

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