- Climate Change, Energy Policy and Sustainability
- Centre for Social Justice Research
- Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment
About me
I am a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences.
My core expertise lies in the sociology of work and employment. Having worked as a policy researcher for many years, I have extensive experience in cross-disciplinary research. In my work, I draw on the broad fields of economic and political sociology, industrial relations, and environmental studies.
I took my first degree (BSc Sociology) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1997). I later completed an MSc in Social Research Methods (with Social Policy) (2000), also at the LSE. My PhD, completed at the University of York (2014), engaged with Bourdieu's concept of field to analyse dynamics of professional domains of work. I have been at the University of Westminster since 2016, first as a Research Fellow and then as a lecturer since 2021.
Teaching
Research Methods in Sociology and Criminology (Level 5)
Modern Social Theory (Level 5)
Contemporary Social Theory (Level 6)
Power and the State (L5)
London Explored (L4)
Thinking Sociologically (L4)
Work-based Learning (L5)
PhD supervision
Moasoumeh KhaliliGoudarzi (2025- ) Co-constitution of feminine subjectivities and ethnic identities in Hormoz Island, Iran.
Trishna Khanom (2025 -) Cognitive Insights into Leadership: Empowering the Voices of British Bangladeshi Women in the UK
Denise Bowes (2016-2020), An Aspirations-led Capabilities Approach to Women's Career Pathways in Quantity Surveying
Prospective PhD candidates
I'm interested in supervising PhDs in the broad area of the sociology of work and employment, including gender, racial and ethnic inequalities in the workplace. I have a special interest in debates surrounding the meaning of work, as well as historical and biographical approaches to working lives. I would be interested in hearing from prospective candidates with similar interests.
Research
My current research explores work histories, adopting biographical and historical approaches to understanding working lives.
Previously, I researched the implications of climate change and adaptation for the world of work, with a focus on building design and construction occupations, gender and climate policy and the just transition strategies of labour organisations.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.