I am Senior Lecturer in MIE and a Sociologist of Youth and (Higher) Education. My research and teaching focuses on educational inequalities, (im)mobilities and issues of wellbeing, predominantly in the context of Higher Education. I am especially interested in understanding the relational and emotional dimensions of student experiences of HE, and the ways these shape and/or are reflected in policy and popular discourses (for example, around 'belonging' and 'wellbeing'). 

I am also interested in interactions between HE and employment for both students and graduates. This includes graduate employability, notions of 'success' as well as part-time work and dicourses of entrepreneurial activity such as 'side hustles'.  

I am currently Co-Investigator on L-earning: Rethinking young women's working lives. exploring young women’s early experiences of work – including work while studying – and how these experiences may contribute to gendered inequalities in later life. The study is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council until 2025 as part of the ‘Transforming Working Lives’ initiative – a broader scheme of research projects investigating changes in working lives and power in the workplace.