Claire is passionate about breaking down the historical and spatial boundaries between higher education institutions and the communities excluded from these establishments. She is a Talloires Network Next Generation Leader and hopes to orientate her research and practice towards the construction of a more just education system in South Africa.
Claire holds a MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Currently, she serves as a mentor for Omprakash, an NGO dedicated to building mutually beneficial relationships between grassroots social impact organisations and volunteers, donors and classrooms around the world. She is also Chair-elect of the Graduate Student Network of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and is a Deputy Editor of the African Journal of Higher Education Community Engagement. She previously worked at the Rhodes University Community Engagement Division, responsible facilitating an engaged research group and a community engagement short course for high schools. Her research interests include community/public engagement, African higher education, feminist and engaged research methods, and community histories.