My research lies at the intersections of transnational migration and ageing and develops two themes: transnational eldercare and transnational retirement migration. Broadly, my work examines the intersections of gender, age, ethnicity and citizenship status, and the opportunities and risks they pose for individuals who negotiate the transnational migration of their family members or their own. I am a lecturer with the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS). I received my PhD and Masters in Geography from NUS and completed my Bachelors degree at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. During my years as a graduate, I greatly benefited from events organised by the IGU Gender Commission and I am delighted to be part of YES! As a scholar from Sri Lanka, I am particularly interested in building supportive networks among early-career feminist researchers from the Global South.

As a geographer, my work is informed by my roles as a researcher (popular music, creative labour, migration) and vocal performer (improvised music and meditation). Common to these interests is my commitment to understanding the embodied dimensions of identity, culture, and complex change across different scales and contexts. I am currently a researcher at Dark Matter Laboratories, where I facilitate strategic conversations around systems-based missions on education, food security, and well-being. Prior to this I held positions at Lingnan University in Hong Kong (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies), and the Asia Research Institute in Singapore (Postdoctoral Fellow, Migration Cluster). I finished my PhD in Geography at the National University of Singapore. I am inspired by the radically welcoming space offered by YES! and the IGU Gender Commission, and look forward to co-creating more inclusive, creative, and supportive geographies of scholarship.

I am a feminist geographer with a focus on global intimate relations and digital transformations. My research brings together geographic theories of the body, emotion and affect, digital and affectual research methodologies and empirical fieldwork in the Global East. From an intersectional research perspective, I want to understand how spaces of intimacy, everyday experiences of identity politics and digital technologies are interwoven. I have studied in Germany and in the US and received my PhD in Geography from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. I have worked with feminist scholars in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, and Canada from whom I have learned to incite change through collaborative and joyful research practices. Through the welcoming and inspiring spaces created by feminist geography collectives at the University of Bern, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Guelph, I have found my academic home in feminist geographies. I look forward to fostering the transnational feminist connections of YES! and contributing to a caring network of early career feminist scholars from the global East, South, and North.

I am a feminist geographer with a keen interest in mapping the way identity and space co-constitute the social world of children/young people. The recurrent themes I draw on in my work are youth/young people, identities, gender, liminality, belongingness and the familial/social environment. As a feminist scholar, I focus on visibilising the experiences of children/young people across multiple spatial scales and uncovering power relations between children/young people and the adult world. I am happy to be connected to a transnational network of young and early feminist scholars through YES! As a Steering Committee Member, I look forward to reciprocating care in greater measure than I've received, to create inclusive, safe and supportive spaces for early-career scholars & feminist geographers, especially from the Global South.