Lecturer in African Studies at the University of Edinburgh with extensive experience researching and writing about violent social groups and discrimination in selected African countries.
The Expert's research has been focused primarily on Anglophone West Africa with occasional work In Southern and Eastern Africa and the Horn. Thematically, they have worked on issues of conflict and peacebuilding and the impacts they have on ordinary lives, especially of youth and women. The Expert's work has also, at various times addressed human rights challenges, including LGBTQ+, state repression and other non-state forms of everyday threats. This body of work has been done both in academic and policy arenas over the last 15 years.
The Expert has extensive experience spanning about 15 years, researching and producing expert reports on broad regional security conditions in Africa as well as on individual countries. They have produced more than a dozen expert reports for immigration cases in the UK, Belgium and Canada. They have also done high level consultancies focussed on security sector reform, maritime security, cult groups, risk assessment and mitigation in countries across Africa.