I am a co-operative researcher and practitioner.

My thesis submitted at the University of Liverpool, consisted in an original analysis of the worker co-operative sector and movement in Northern Ireland, based on a long-term participatory engagement with a number of co-operatives. This ethnographic research contributes to extend the ‘double transition’ thesis, exploring processes of neoliberalisation of post-Agreement Northern Ireland and the contribution of worker co-operatives to foster alternative strategies for post-conflict transformation.  

I am currently the recipient of the NINE ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. The project aims at remedying co-operative’ significant lack of public visibility and government attention, through the production of academic and non-academic outputs that contribute to establish practical recommendations with local authorities, foster ties between academia and practitioners and contribute to the promotion of co-operative economies. The aim of the fellowship is also to investigate new research ideas, questioning whether and how traditional political actors such as trade unions engage with co-operatives and post-growth strategies more broadly.

My approach to research is rooted in what I call a ‘cooperative’ ethos, inspired by participatory and feminist methodologies. I am interested in social and solidarity economics, in particular the contribution made by feminist diverse economies research, in post-conflict Northern Ireland and participatory research.