[1] This led her to winning a Beit Fellowship to the University of Oxford, where she completed her doctorate on the topic of "access to justice for women".
Upon completing her doctorate, Banda worked for the Law Commission of England and Wales, before returning to Oxford as a post-doctoral researcher.
Her main areas of work include the human rights of women and family law in Africa.
She has also taught programmes around the world in cities including Harare, Kampala, Onati and Oslo.
[4] Banda is the author of the 2022 interdisciplinary book African Migration, Human Rights and Literature.