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 and recent projects include:

• Disability Inclusive Science Careers (EPSRC funded - £494k)
• Beyond the 10k Steps (Industrial Challenge Strategy Fund - led by Professor Wendy Loretto, University of Edinburgh)
• Lifting the lid (Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness, led by Dr Jen Remnant)
• Disability Inclusive Chemistry Careers (Royal Society of Chemistry - with Dr Jen Remnant and Dr Graeme Barker)
• 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

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 the Director of the Centre for Research into Employment, Work and the Professions.

I am member of the Intercultural Research Centre

I am the Director of the Centre for Research Into Employment, Work and the Professions (Launch August 2020). I was the 4th year coordinator responsible for overseeing honours year. Recent administrative roles include  Business Management departmental Research Coordinator and the Human Resource Management and Law Group lead. 

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 business 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