Staff Profile

I hold a PhD in Human Geography from Durham University, which I defended in July 2022. I joined NUBS in May 2022 and am currently a Research Associate on the SECT:OR (Small Enterprises in Covid Times: On Regulation) project, funded by the UKRI 'rapid response' call for Covid-19-related research.

An interdisciplinary social science researcher and educator, I have extensive experience of qualitative research methods in the social sciences, including discourse analysis, interviewing and participant observation. I am responsible for the management and qualitative analysis of the interview data collected for the project, producing academic outputs, assisting with stakeholder and external communications and dissemination of the project's findings. This has included policymaker engagement: in July 2022, I co-authored a submission to a Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee inquiry on 'post-pandemic economic growth: UK labour markets.'

As of December 2022, I am dividing my time between my work on the SECT:OR project and working closely with the Newcastle-based team at the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE). Here, I have been conducting qualitative research investigating the early impacts of the cost-of-living and energy price crises on small rural businesses in England. The findings of this research informed a NICRE evidence submission to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rural Business and the Rural Powerhouse, submitted in November 2022. I am currently preparing a stakeholder-facing report for NICRE detailing the findings of this research.