Deanne’s work draws from the fields of critical psychology, decolonial theory and praxis, psychosocial theory, and critical education to interrogate problems with race, coloniality and epistemic injustice. Her commitment to social transformation is animated in her scholarship and practice of critical pedagogy and participatory research with historically marginalised communities. She seeks to contribute to epistemic justice in higher education and society. Her work is influenced by the Black-Archipelago, anticolonial tradition and the writings of Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant and Paulo Freire.