PhD Student & Tutor – Sociology, University of Edinburgh
My PhD research draws on the feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith and her approach to research, institutional ethnography, to explore the organisation of UK higher education through texts. I focus specifically on the National Student Survey (NSS), research funding guidelines, and the Research Excellent Framework (REF). I also teach extensively in sociology and human geography, with a focus on qualitative research and feminism. My special interests include: institutional ethnography; intersectionality; identity; feminist epistemology; activism; theatre and performance.
Experience: My doctoral research is situated in the sociology of emotions, and explores emotion cultures in social movements through a case study of British radical feminist magazine Trouble and Strife. I specialise in documentary research methods, particularly involving archival documents of life. I teach feminist debates and the sociology of emotions.
Special interests: Sociology of emotions, feminist historiography, culture