I joined the School of Social and Political Sciences (Sociological and Cultural Studies division) in 2026 as an Early Career Leverhulme & LKAS Fellow. Over the coming years, I will focus on developing my project titled 'Bread and Roses: Rest and free time as sites of struggle in disabling capitalism'. This work is supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the UofG Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith (LKAS) Leadership Fellowship. 

Alongside this project, across 2026-2027 I will be collaborating with other colleagues to co-edit Special Issues on workers' inquiries, social theory, and disability studies, respectively. A Book Review Symposium piece is due to be published soon in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal.

I am a social researcher interested in anti-capitalist, anti-work/productivism, and anti-disablement politics. While I consider myself to be an 'indisciplinary' scholar, the areas of social sciences that have been most insightful for my research and that I wish to address in my work are sociology/social theory, critical political economy, heterodox Marxism(s), and a strand of disability studies. I completed my 1+3 ESRC-funded doctoral research in 2024, with a thesis titled 'The Politics of Work and Disablement: Prefiguring a Non-Productivist Future’. The PhD was based at the University of Birmingham, in the School of Government (Political Science and International Studies department). 

Currently, I am a member of the committees/boards of

• the Theory Study Group (of the British Sociological Association),
• the Marxism and Disability Network (supported by the Historical Materialist Journal),
• the Society for Disability Studies, and
• the Leisure Studies Association.

Between 2015-2019, I co-founded and coordinated the activities of the Birmingham-based Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group.

My recent academic work has been published as research articles in the Global Political Economy Journal (2023), The International Journal of Care and Caring (2024), and the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice (2024), and as blogs/articles on the Political Studies Association's blog and in the European Sociological Association's European Sociologist e-magazine.

Beyond academic research, I have served as a reviewer of journal articles and grant applications, advisor on a cross-university research project, researcher on a full-time, self-organised placement with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (funded by the ESRC during my PhD), mentor (via the British Sociological Association), organiser of scholarly events, contributor to and supporter of various collectives and campaigns, and member of scholarly awards committees (via the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association & via the Society for Disability Studies).

Alongside my academic teacher and researcher work across different university departments, my previous support staff and academic-related roles in higher education have shaped my practice in equal measure. In previous years, I also undertook a variety of funded internships and voluntary researcher roles in seven organisations across the third and public sectors (social enterprises, charities, a 'think-do-tank', and a city council) in Birmingham. 

My research interests have changed over time, but their main underlying commonality has been producing indisciplinary, socially useful, and emancipatory knowledge for the advancement of collective struggle and social change. That said, my areas of interest are broadly as follows:

• Structural disablement / the politics of disablement
• The total institution of work / the politics of (waged and unwaged) work and rest
• Heterodox Marxism(s)
• Politics from below and collective struggle
• Philosophy of technology
• Education, knowledge production, and pedagogy
• Trade unionism
• Emancipatory research
• Critical social theory.

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Prior publications

I have taught modules in Politics, Sociology, and Social Policy, across two schools/departments at a previous institution. The modules include Introduction to Political Theory, Social Problems & Social Policy: Social Science in Action I & II, Understanding Politics, Comparative Politics, Pathways to Research I & II (Academic Skills & Research Methods).
I have also been an Academic Skills Advisor in a University Academic Skills Centre, mentor of final year 6th Form students, and tutor on a Widening Participation scheme. 

In 2022, I became an Associate Fellow of the HEA.

Previous studies

PhD in Political Science, University of Birmingham

Thesis: The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work: Prefiguring an Anti-Productivist Future

MA Social Research, University of Birmingham

Dissertation: We are worth so much more than our productivity: The politics of work and disability

MA Social and Political Theory, University of Birmingham

Dissertation: The role of the university within a feminist organology of hyper-industrial societies: Thinking through the pharmacology of care, otium and desire

BA Political Science and Sociology, University of Birmingham

Dissertation: The Aporia of Human Rights: A radical reconceptualisation of the right to asylum, based on a politics of equality and ethics of hospitality

Recent Membership of Scholarly Organisations:

• British Sociological Association
• Political Studies Association
• American Sociological Association
• European Sociological Association
• Society for Disability Studies
• Marxism and Disability Network
• Leisure Studies Association
• Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
• European Group for Organisational Studies
• others

Events, workshops, conferences and symposia I organised:

via the Theory Study Group of the BSA (2022-present), the Marxism and Disability Network (2023-present), the British Sociological Association (two one-day symposia in 2023 and 2025 with financial support from the BSA), the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) and MDN (a two-day conference in 2025 with financial support from the SLSA), the Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group (CPTRG) at the University of Birmingham (2015-2019), the Society for Disability Studies (2025), the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, and others.

Events, Symposia, conferences, seminar series where I presented my research:

They include the BSA, ESA, PSA, ASA, APSA, ECPR, AHE, CSA, SLSA, TASA, EGOS, LSA, and others.