Grace is an economic geographer studying informal livelihoods and mobilities in response to climate change. Her work uses participatory and creative methods to explore dimensions of everyday life that are rendered illegible to policymakers through traditional methods, foregrounding labour, agency, mobility and vulnerability.

She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in International Development from the University of Edinburgh, and has led both large-scale and ethnographic qualitative research in Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the UK. Among other informal workers her research has focused on paid domestic workers, waste-pickers and low-caste entrepreneurs, working with organisations like the Asian Development Bank and International Labour Organization.

Grace joins King's on the PATH Project to examine mobility as a form of climate adaptation using creative methods, and she is developing future research on inclusive employment interventions, digital infrastructures, data governance and the welfare state. 

Research

• Mobilities and climate adaptation
• Informal, local labour markets
• Variegated capitalism
• Social reproduction and life-making
• Data governance
• Participatory and creative methods

Expertise and public engagement 

• 2026 - Embers of Hope Website Series: [link forthcoming]
• 2023 - 'Didilai Didiko Sandesh' Short Film
• “Youth in a Time of Crisis: Livelihood diaries from Nepal and Indonesia during COVID-19.” Policy Brief. Restless Development. http://bit.ly/4vyd3uh

Further Details

See Grace's research profile