Research

Book project:

My current book project, tentatively titled Still Here: Ageing, Loneliness, and Resilience, explores how older women navigate experiences of isolation, loss, and community in a marginalised British city shaped by austerity, migration, and urban neglect. The book is being developed in collaboration with anthropologist and illustrator Carla Ferrari (https://www.carlaferrarip.com/), whose visual practice forms an integral part of the project's ethnographic and narrative approach.

Blending ethnographic research with visual storytelling, the book draws on nine months of immersive fieldwork and seeks to translate the emotional textures of ageing into a graphic format. Inspired by the Ethnographic series published by the University of Toronto Press, this work interweaves personal testimony, sensory memory, and feminist theory to illuminate how women make sense of their bodies, their pasts, and their everyday geographies of care.

Through visual ethnography, the project aims to produce a book that is both accessible and deeply grounded—one that invites readers to attune themselves to the quiet force of ageing women's lives, and to envision new ways of seeing care, kinship, and urban ageing beyond dominant narratives of decline.