Research Projects
Ongoing
2024 - Mediterranean Artbook with Amir
2024 - Glasgow Effect
2024 - Mediterranean Diet
2024: Food Labelling in Italy: Between Regulations, Health, and Culture
2024 - "Un-Popular Diseases: Class and the Aesthetics of Health and Illness in Italy"
2024 - "Dementia and food, gut, relationships, lifestyle, stigma and Italian community" (Alzheimer Association, Alzheimer Society, Dementia Australia)
2024 - "Medical Hierarchies Between Italian and Sicilian: Liminality, Code-Switching, and the Suspension of Appropriateness in a Sicilian Hospital" (TBD)
2024 - "FND: Picturing a Creative Vocabulary of Disease" (FND societies) (w Shelley)
2024 - "Teaching and Learning With Neurodivergent Students" (TERNZ grant) (w Namali)
2024 - "(Un)Forgotten Stories: Creative Storytelling for Cultural Heritage Revival in Sicily’ (with A/P Alfio Leotta) (funded by VUW, Faculty Strategic Research Grant)
2025 - "Supervisors and Students Relationship or Neurodivergent students" (Teaching and Learning Development Grant)
2025 - "Selves in Chiaroscuro: Language Practices and Well-Being in Palermo", Sicily (Creative NZ, Arts Council of New Zealand)
2024 - "Selves in Chiaroscuro: A Visual Exploration of Ethnic Identity, Well-Being, and in-Betweenness in Sicily" (funded by VUW, Faculty Establishment Research Grant)
2024 - "Tackling Distress Among Women Smallholder Farmers in Two Nepali Sites" (funded by VUW, FHSS-FoE Large Grant)
Completed
2017-2023 - "Well-Being, Morality, and Domestic Relationships in Nepal" (funded by the University of Adelaide, Beacon of Enlightenment grant, Global Learning grant)
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2017 - "Parenting, Food Practices, and Health Conceptions in Bhaktapur" (funded by Sight and Life Foundation Switzerland, Individual Research Grant)
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2016 - "Food and Identity Among the Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese Community in Australia" (funded by The University of Siena)
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2015 -“Post-soviet Word, Image, and Memory”, School of Literature, Languages and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland (funded by the Erasmus for Traineeship Research Project, EU)
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