Welcome!

I am a final year PhD Candidate in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.

My research interests lie in Survey Experiments, Political Violence, Decolonisation, Ethnic Representation, Public Opinion, Foreign Policy, Democratisation, Ideology, African Politics, Race Politics and Gender Politics. My thesis explores the role of expectations in shaping political violence in a post-revolutionary context. Using survey data collected after Burkina Faso’s latest uprising in 2014, I argue that post-revolutionary political discontent can lead to the increase and diffusion of violence. My doctoral research is funded by the South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS).