Before starting her British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in September 2024, Rosalie worked in the Geography Department at King’s as a Lecturer in Urban Studies. Prior to this, she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and was a Career Development Lecturer in Human Geography at Jesus College, Oxford.

She has also worked as a Research Associate in Social Policy at the University of York, and has held teaching positions at Christ Church, Oxford, Queen Mary University of London, and the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD and MRes in Human Geography from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA(Hons) in Geography and Sociology from Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.

Research

• Bureaucratic encounters with the welfare state
• Feminist political economies of care and disability
• Geographies of neurodiversity and SEND
• Urban health inequalities
• Family homelessness
• Children, young people and families
• Emotional geographies
• Research methods and ethics

Rosalie is currently working on a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship project titled Children as Co-Navigators: Feminist Political Economies of Care, Family Life and Welfare in the City (2024-2028). This project examines the role that children play in helping to navigate and access welfare services in families where adults struggle to speak, read or write English. Working with local government, community groups and community research assistants in London, England, the research will 1) advance geographical understandings of bureaucratic navigation, urban childhoods, and feminist political economies of care; 2) provide important participant-led policy recommendations to better support marginalised families in super-diverse urban areas.

Rosalie is also co-investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Sensory Lives: Neurodiverse Children and Families in Temporary Accommodation (PI Professor Katherine Brickell, KCL). Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, this project examines how families with neurodivergent children experience and manage the stresses of living in temporary accommodation (TA). It develops creative methodologies for working with neurodivergent children, to think about how we can communicate difference more inclusively in research and policy. Working with the Shared Health Foundation in Greater Manchester, this research 1) advances geographical understandings of neurodiversity, women and children’s geographies of homelessness and displacement, feminist political economies of care, and sensory geographies; 2) provides important participant-led policy recommendations to better support homeless families with neurodivergent children. In 2025, Rosalie led the first ever national call for evidence into the experiences of neurodivergent children and their families living in TA, in partnership with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Households in Temporary Accommodation, the Shared Health Foundation, and Autistica. You can read the report here.

Rosalie’s ESRC-funded PhD research was titled Navigating, Feeling and Living “SEND”: Parent and Practitioner Experiences of Raising Autistic Children at a Time of Austerity. Find out more about Rosalie's SEND Inequality work here

Teaching

Rosalie is not currently undertaking teaching.

Further details

See Rosalie's research profile