I am an international family law consultant at Dawson Cornwell. I was awarded a Fellowship in 2012 and it enabled me to travel to Sri Lanka, Cambodia and India to conduct legal research on the issue of acid violence in the context of gender-based violence.

As a result of the research I had conducted, in 2017 I was interviewed by both Sky News and BBC Radio 5 Live about acid violence, to comment on the existing laws in the UK and whether our sentencing powers were harsh enough. I spoke about the alarming way acid was being used within the domestic violence remit and as a weapon by gangs. Acid is now recognised in the UK as a highly dangerous weapon and there are harsh punishments for anyone found carrying it in public.

This Fellowship was the starting point of my international research career, as in 2015 I conducted a policy review for the UN on the issue of child, early and forced marriage in Bangladesh and the UK. I was also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2017 to undertake an LLM at Cornell to conduct research on child marriage in the USA. I am part of the pro bono legal team of the Safeguard Futures Ban Child Marriage campaign in the UK.