I am a Senior Lecturer in Transnational Education Education in King’s Academy, Centre for International Education and Languages. My scholarly work focuses on the use of digital technologies in teacher education and development and how such uses shape teacher identities, especially in challenging and technologically under-resourced contexts.

I am currently leading the development and delivery of the Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education’s  PGCert in Online Learning & Teaching, which aims to train educators who will be supporting disadvantaged African youth, through tailored online training, to achieve their career or further education potential. 

Before joining King’s College, I worked as a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. At Manchester, I also served as a programme director for the MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education--Distance Learning and later as Deputy programme director and Dissertation Coordinator for the MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education (full-time, onsite). I have also worked as Lecturer in English and Communication Skills at the Rwanda Polytechnic--IPRC Kigali, in Rwanda.

Specifically, I worked on various donor-funded in-service teacher development projects, including those funded by the British Council, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Belgian technical cooperation program PAFP (Programme d’Appui pour la Formation Professionelle). My work in this area has included several developing contexts such Rwanda, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and India.

I am currently the Convener of the Digital Education Research Interest Group of the British Educational Research Association (BERA). During my time at Manchester, I co-lead the Digital Inequalities Strand of Digital Technologies, Communication and Education Research and Scholarship group at the University of Manchester. 

My research interests sit broadly in the area of digital education. I am interested in researching how digital education is deployed in under-resourced contexts and how such deployment is enabled or hindered by in-context educational policies and practices. Given my own experience as a language teacher and teacher educator, my research interests also include the use of digital technologies in language teaching and teacher professional development.

Key topics of interest are:

• Processes and challenges in digital education provision in under-resourced or challenging contexts
• Impact of novel digital technologies (e.g. generative AI) in creating or reducing digital inequalities in under-resourced educational contexts;
• Shaping influences of in-context digital education policies and practices on teacher identity, classrrom practices and professional development.
• Using digital technologies to support language learning and teaching

My research approach is mainly qualitative and I tend to use discourse analysis approaches in my work.