Institute of Education, University of London

Faculty Member, Dept of Humanities and Social Science

Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Gender and Education

About

I am currently researching young people's digitised sexual identities and recently finished a qualitative study on teens and 'sexting'. I have research expertise in gendered and sexualized (cyber)bullying, aggression and conflict in school. My work has explored and troubled ideas around child 'sexualization' and 'pornification'.

My new book: Postfeminist Education? Girls and the sexual politics of schooling (London, Routledge) explores how education is implicated in contemporary postfeminist panics over girlhood.

I am currently co-editing Deleuze and Research Methodologies (with Rebecca Coleman) on transcendental DeleuzoGuattarian empirical social scientific research methodologies (Edinburgh University Press).

Methodologically and theoretically my research draws on poststructuralism and psychosocial approaches to understanding subjectivity and affect.

My PhD examined defensiveness in learning, through a study on student engagements with feminist and critical pedagogical theories of power and privilege in HE. I have an abiding interest in 'intersectional' and Black Feminist theories that help unpack the complexities and contradictions of racialized, classed, gendered and sexualized subjectivities.