Aurora Learning is the result of my diverse professional experiences and passions: academic research, early years’ education and mobile education provision for the world’s most vulnerable communities.

I have a BA Hons in English and Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths University, an MA in Africa Studies and a PhD in African Languages and Cultures from the School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the University of London. As well as pursuing fieldwork in Cameroon, I became active within the CHASE consortium of which SOAS is a member and was appointed Senior Editor of Brief Encounters, a journal funded by the consortium.

I hold a PGCE Early Years’ qualification and have taught (in and out of the classroom) in France and the UK since 2006 as well as training early years’ professionals in Kenya. Having volunteered in an early years’ centre within Dunkirk refugee camp in 2015, I went on to work as a consultant for several small NGOs working with displaced populations in France and Greece. As a result of this work, I was appointed UK Programme Lead and Partnerships Coordinator for the School Bus Project, an NGO seeking to provide mobile education opportunities for children and young people in refugee settings.

In my work in Greece, France and Kenya I have witnessed and been part of various ‘interventions’ by outsiders into marginalised and vulnerable communities. Whether it is PhD fieldwork in a school in rural Kenya or a two week volunteering stint in a refugee camp in Dunkirk by a PGCE student, the need for professional training that would facilitate ethical partnerships is clear and ongoing.