“Even the most reflexive researchers can find it difficult to uncover the theoretical assumptions that form the basis of their thinking.” - Minh Dang
SCHOLARSHIP DOMAINS
“What makes life worth living?” - a question that many early philosophers tackled in their scholarship and continues to be a focus for modern philosophers and health professionals. My scholarship explores defining wellbeing from the lived experiences of people who experienced human trafficking.
LEADERSHIP
I believe that everyone can be a leader and we need leader-full organisations, communities, and families. I also believe that whether we are aware of it or not, we all lead from lived experience and lived-experience leadership is essential to social justice. My writing on leadership explores the various ethical dimensions of lived-experience leadership, and leadership more broadly.
Understanding our beliefs about our epistemology - our beliefs about how we know what we know - is critical to understanding the ground upon which we make our arguments for what counts as facts and as truth. This working paper offers an exploration in what I have named the epistemology of survival - an epistemology that claims knowledge can be in the service of survival, rather than in the service of stating the truth about the world.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING & SLAVERY
We have a society that is built upon the labor of people who are either underpaid or not paid at all, who experience violence or the threat of violence, and who also face the loss of civil and human rights in the process. My scholarship focuses on the experiences of survivors who have exited experiences of human trafficking.