My research examines how care, identity, and ethical responsibility emerge through relationships across family, community, and more-than-human life. As an interdisciplinary social scientist, I draw on qualitative, narrative, feminist, posthuman, arts-based, and multispecies methodologies to explore the relational dimensions of everyday life.
Across my work, I am interested in how humans become through relationships — with other people, stories, and more-than-human life — and how these relationships shape caregiving, belonging, responsibility, and social change.
My scholarship spans several interconnected areas, including:
- multispecies relationships and more-than-human family life
- narrative identity and relational becoming across the life course
- caregiving, ethics, and family relationships
- allyship and Indigenist approaches to knowledge and pedagogy
- professional and practice-based learning
- qualitative, arts-based, and multispecies methodologies
- interdisciplinary and community-engaged pedagogy
Much of my current research focuses on relationships between humans and dogs, particularly within family and community contexts. This work explores care labour, relational responsibility, vulnerability, and coexistence in multispecies homes and communities.
Current collaborative projects include:
- qualitative research on care relationships between humans and dogs in Canadian families;
- research examining human and companion animal relationships in contexts of displacement;
- mixed-methods research exploring social norms among free-ranging dogs in India;
- interdisciplinary work examining care, maintenance, and repair in more-than-human urban environments.
My research has been supported primarily by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
