I have a background in Economic Geography which I have sought to integrate in both research and teaching roles at Queen's Management School (and before that, Sheffield University Management School). Drawing specifically on my interests in Labour Geographies, I combine a geographical approach to researching work, employment and political economy which contributes to multiple Management and Business school subjects/sub-disciplines. I am thus part of a wider cohort of Geographers who have traversed into Management/Business schools in recent years, contributing to exciting new developments (see James et al. 2018 for a recent debate on this subject!). 

Since completing my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2011 I have worked in different schools of Management/Business in Oxford, Sheffield and Belfast respectively (in addition to a short spell at the School of Geography at Plymouth University). Over the course of this journey I have gained a broad repertoire of teaching and research experiences and areas of interest, and have undertaken research projects which examine experiences of regional economic development, changing forms of employment, and the wider politics of labour market regulation. 

Research interests and themes include:

• The political economy of labour market institutions. This has included research on behalf of the International Labour Organisation into labour administration and the critical appraisal of the EU Flexicurity agenda with Professor Jason Heyes (University of Sheffield).
• Labour inspection and the enforcement of worker rights. In 2015 I co-authored a toolkit on labour inspection on behalf of the ILO (with Jason Heyes). Extending Labour Inspection to the Informal Economy is available online and is intended as a tool for training labour inspectors throughout different regions of the world.
• Institutional approaches to regulating unlawful work arrangements. This has included a focus on bogus self-employment and the use of fraudulent letterbox companies in the EU for publication on the EC’s European Platform Tackling Undeclared Work.
• An interest in worker agencies and experiences of modern work, drawing on and contributing towards debates in the Labour Process Theory (LPT) tradition and Labour Geography.
• I have a longstanding interest in regional economic development; my recent work in this area includes a focus on Green transitions and path switching towards renewable technologies. 

I am the current Programme Director for BSc Business Management. As part of this role I am responsible for the strategic direction of the programme, working with the Subject Leader and Module Coordinators to ensure that its curriculum is up to date and in-line with QAA standards.

Past and present teaching at Queen's has spanned several different modules and degree levels.

Courses include: