With a doctorate in Medical Sociology, and a research associateship at the Adolescent Accelerators Research Hub, University of Cape Town, Nicole seeks to bring the rigour of her qualitative training to complex, real-world situations. Motivated by a deep love for our earth and its more-than-human worlds, she is attuned to issues of care, kinship, and affect in the governing relations of our time. Her approach is threaded through with passion for life’s interconnectedness nature, the capability of her body and curiosity of her mind.