My research is focused on two major areas: (a) global migration and development, and (b) rapid urbanization and food security in the Global South.
My current research projects include: the Hungry Cities Partnership (which I direct at Laurier, with Edgar Pieterse at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities); the African Food Security Urban Network; the Consuming Urban Poverty project, and SAMP's Growing Informal Cities Project. I also have close links with the International Migration Research Centre and Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the Balsillie School and am a member of the 2030+ Group at BSIA, investigating relationships between health, poverty, climate change and development in the Global South.
