My work is driven by a single, coherent question: how humanitarian and development systems govern risk, care and responsibility under conditions of compounding crisis. Across labour mobility, disaster risk, health governance and ageing, I examine how harm and obligation are distributed through gendered, racialised and institutional arrangements that are often rendered invisible by policy frameworks focused on short-term outcomes.

Rather than treating humanitarian response, development, labour migration, health or care as discrete domains, my research brings them into conversation through an integrated governance lens. I show how the humanitarian–development nexus is lived and governed not only in moments of emergency, but through everyday systems of labour, mobility, welfare, disaster preparedness and care. These systems frequently reproduce slow and axiomatic forms of violence—normalised harms embedded in policy, discourse and institutional design—while simultaneously relying on undervalued forms of social and cultural care to remain functional.

A distinctive contribution of my work is to centre ethics of care as governance concerns rather than peripheral values. By foregrounding gendered labour, social reproduction and cultural context, my research reframes humanitarian governance as a question of how responsibility is allocated, deferred or displaced across scales—from households and communities to states and international regimes. This approach challenges instrumental models of partnership and localisation by making power, trust and care analytically visible.

Taken together, this body of work advances a normative and analytical framework for humanitarian and development governance that is grounded in feminist political economy, postcolonial critique and applied regional research in the Asia-Pacific and South Asia. It contributes not only to scholarly debate, but to how universities, governments and practitioners conceptualise ethical responsibility, partnership and risk in an era of compound crises.

My current focus is on consolidating this agenda through long-term research platforms that integrate theory, policy engagement, capacity-building and teaching. This reflects a shift from project-based contribution to agenda-setting leadership, aimed at shaping how humanitarian and development challenges are understood, governed and taught over the coming decade.