I am a first-year PhD candidate and equity-centred researcher at the University of Leeds (UK). My doctoral research focuses on women’s reproductive ageing, health justice, and systems change. I plan to examine the reproductive ageing experiences of marginalised women across the UK public health system, community services, and workplace settings.

My research participants will include Nigerian women in the UK (i.e those born in Britain and those who have migrated) as well as healthcare practitioners. I plan to examine how the dominant menopause and ageing narrative (in UK) is exclusionary and marginalising. This is because it overlooks cultural, social and spiritual contexts, lived experience, and non-Western ways of knowing, being, and acting, such as Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba traditions.

I plan to use participatory and creative research methods to generate insights that support culturally responsive menopause and ageing care. This includes community-based co-production, arts-informed approaches, and culturally grounded analysis designed to inform practice, service design, and policy.

I am seeking research spaces that value interdisciplinary exchange, critical challenge, and impact beyond the academy, which is why membership of the Women’s Health Cluster is important to my doctoral work.