I am an early-career educational researcher specialising in vocational education and training (VET) and social inequality. In my PhD at NTNU, within the International Vocational Education and Training Research Group, I examine how VET systems shape, and are shaped by, inequality, through a comparative qualitative case study of Kenya and Norway.

I work from a comparative education policy perspective, combining Social Stratification with the Capability Approach to move beyond access-based accounts of inequality toward questions of what VET actually enables people to do and become. This lets me hold policy analysis and lived experience of stratification in the same frame, across two very different welfare and education systems.

This builds on my master's research (EIMAS, University of Porto, Bayreuth University, and Bordeaux Montaigne University), where I examined how equity-financing models in Kenyan higher education respond, or fail to respond, to the needs of students with disabilities. That work exposed how policy commitments to equity can remain structurally hollow without coordinated institutional follow-through, a tension I now carry into my PhD's comparative reading of VET systems.