Staff profile
| Affiliation |
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| Career Development Fellow in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences |
Biography
I joined the department in October 2024 as a Career Development Fellow in Sport and Exercise Sciences. I previously completed my PhD at the University of Brighton (2019-2023), in which I analysed the production of knowledge in the Sport for Development sector and critiqued the assumed nature of the sector’s practices of monitoring and evaluation as a tool for knowledge production through a multi-faceted ethnographic examination of monitoring and evaluation practices. My PhD work included major methodological and theoretical contributions to the academic study of the use of sport in international development settings. In the context of my PhD fieldwork, I acted as an evaluation consultant for a sexual health education programme using a football-based methodology in several West African locations.
Prior to my PhD, I graduated in Political Science at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France) in 2015. Strongly interested in studying sport through the lens of the social sciences, I then embarked on an MA programme in Sport and International Development at the University of Brighton from 2016 to 2017.
My current research focus is on the epistemological underpinnings of the use of sport for social change in international development settings, with a particular attention to issues of epistemic coloniality through programme evaluation.
Over the years, I have successfully engaged with several local and international NGOs using sport in Peru, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and the United Kingdom.
Research interests
- Sport for Development and Peace
- Epistemology of Sport
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Anthropology of Sport
- Sport and (de)coloniality
- Sexual Health Education
- HIV Prevention
- West Africa
Publications
Chapter in book
Doctoral Thesis