Contact
Biography
I joined the School as a Teaching Associate in 2018 from the the University of York, where I worked as an Associate Lecturer (2016-2018) and completed my PhD (2019) 'Belonging in a Peri-urban Village: contesting social, spatial and symbolic boundaries'.
My research interests are in discourses of place, community and belonging - especially where such claims are made and contested through planning and development processes in the rural-urban fringe. I have contributed to interdisciplinary methodological projects concerned with and I have an interest in pedagogical development and research, including running co-creation projects with students designing a . Much of my teaching is therefore focused on how we talk about people and places.
I am currently the School's Programme Convenor for the Joint Honours in BA in Criminology & Sociology. Between February 2023 and August 2025 I was a Digital Learning Director for the Faculty of Social Sciences, prior to this I was the Digital Teaching and Learning Lead for the School of Sociology & Social Policy between 2020 and 2023.
Since 2024, I have been part of the branch committee of the , having previously been the UCU Rep for the School. I am currently the co-Membership Secretary for the committee.
Teaching Summary
In 2026-27 I will be contributing as a seminar leader, lecturer, and or convenor/co-convenor on the following modules:
- Social Science Uncovered 2,
- Contemporary Theories of Crime Justice and Society,
- Research Design and Practice: (Quantitative)
- Crime Stories: Crime, Justice and the Media,
- The City and Its People,
- Dissertation masterclasses.
In previous years, I have contributed to and/or convened the following modules in Sociology, Criminology and social research methods:
- Understanding Contemporary Society,
- Identity in Popular Culture,
- Crimes and Harms of the Powerful,
- Cyber Crime,
- Research Design and Practice: Qualitative,
- Research Design and Practice: Quantitative,
- Research Methods and Research Management (Postgraduate),
- Researching Media, Culture and Society (Postgraduate).