Michaela is an international development practitioner specialising in faith-actors’ participation in peacebuilding; the operations lead for the Social Consequences of Religion & Peacebuilding research team based at King’s College London, and the cofounder of Seek Peace (f. 2022), a small peacebuilding NGO supporting faith-based organisations and communities in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon and the UK to plan, learn, adapt and fund evidence-led everyday peacebuilding initiatives (currently on study leave).
Michaela is a PhD candidate at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. Her interdisciplinary research incorporates methods drawn from ethnography, political science, social psychology and the sociology of religion to explore the extent to which moral identity and religion play a role in transgressive, interreligious friendships and local prosocial dynamics in conflict contexts where religious identities are salient.
Australian-born, dual British national, Michaela spent five years working in post-conflict peacebuilding in Nigeria before returning and settling in the UK in 2020 during the pandemic.
