My research examines the workplace as the site where gender, and associated inequalities, are reproduced. I am particularly interested in how gender intersects with other categories of difference resulting in complex patterns of (dis)advantage. My current projects include:

• Disability Inclusive Science Careers (EPSRC funded - £494k)
• Working from the margins: disability inclusion in Malawi (GCRF £25k)
• Menstruation research network (Wellcome Trust - CoI)
• Women's access to basic services in Rohingya Refugee Camps (GCRF £30k)
• Gynaecological health in academia
• Disability and academic careers (EPSRC and SoSS funded)

Recent projects

• Menstruation and academic careers
• disability and trade unions
• disability and academic careers
• migrant academics

Gender, inequality, intersectionality, feminism, disability, professions, poverty, posthumanism 

 I am a member of the Intercultural Research Centre

I am the Business Management departmental Research Coordinator and the Human Resource Management and Law Group lead. I am the 4th year coordinator responsible for overseeing honours year. 

Between 2010 and 2016 I served on the Executive Committee of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association, latterly as Chair. In 2015 I was a member of the publicity committee of the Sex & Gender group of the American Sociological Association.  In addition, I was the SGSSS Dean of Graduate Studies committee as the HWU representative and the PGR co-ordinator for the department of businesss management

Editorial work. I am currently an Associate Editor of European Management Review (ABS 3), and on the Editorial Board of Work, Employment and Society (ABS 4). In 2015 I launched Heriot Watt's first Open Access journal - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity (www.ipedjournal.com). I am currently co-editing our first special issue on 'Climate Change and Intersectionality' 

Previous Editorial work. Editorial board of Sociological research online, special issues of Construction Management and Economics; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Organization (due 2016)

I am HWU's UCU equality officer, serving on the branch committee