I am a social researcher and teacher currently based at the University of Birmingham, in the School of Government and School of Social Policy and Society. My overall academic interests are postdisciplinary/indisciplinary and span across the social fields of critical social theory, sociology, political science, emancipatory research, critical pedagogy, critical political economy, and critical social policy. Currently, I am focusing on the post-’68 Marxist social theory and materialist political economy of various spheres of activity, and imagining collective strategies for moving against-and-beyond capitalist social relations of oppression and exploitation.

My doctoral research project (completed in July 2024 – access the abstract here) is titled The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work in the UK: Prefiguring an Anti-Productivist Future. It examines (not least through interviews and diary entries) UK-based gig economy subjects of disablement’s everyday activities. Through this project, I make theoretical, political, praxiological, and empirical contributions to various academic spaces (including, but not limited to, the fields of Critical Political Economy, Marxist literatures, and Disability Studies) and to the collective thinking and organising of disabled people’s organisations, trade unions, and other collectives concerned with anti-capitalist social change.

Whilst my research interests have changed over time, their underlying commonality consists of interdisciplinary, socially useful, and emancipatory production of knowledge and practices (within-against-and-beyond the academy) that can inform the advancement of collective struggle and social change. On this website, you can read my bio and information about my doctoral project, news (talks/other activities), writings, and my areas of teaching.