Claire is a Teaching Associate (Departmental Lectureship) in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at the King’s College London Global South Research Group.

Her teaching is focused on South Asia and Social Movements, at undergraduate and MPhil level. She is also preparing a monograph ‘Tethered: the postcolonial politics of digital change’.

She recently completed an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of York, working on the digital governance of social movements.

Her PhD in Politics is from King’s College London, where she was a Leverhulme Fellow with the doctoral programme ‘Interrogating Vision of a Post-Western World: Interdisciplinary and Interregional Perspectives on the Future in a Changing International Order’. Her thesis was titled ‘Social movement politics: postcolonialism, feminism and the digital in India’.

Following an early career as a project manager, Claire completed her MA in Contemporary India at the King’s India Institute under the supervision of Professor Sunil Khilnani. She also holds a BA in History & Italian from the University of Leeds. In addition to her doctoral research, she has held consultancy positions at the British International Research Institutes, and research positions in the School of Global Affairs at King’s.

After her PhD, she worked as an Associate Lecturer at York, teaching Postcolonial and Gender Politics at York. She is a member of the Algorithmic Governance Research Network.