I teach Organisation Studies at the University of Bath School of Management, where I have been since 2007. Previously, I taught at the Cardiff Business School. I finished my PhD in Sociology at the University of Warwick (2005) and my MA and BA degrees in Politics at York University in Toronto, Canada.

My research interests are broadly in the disciplinary domain of sociology of work and organisation. I research both organisational and social processes that reveal the contradictory relationship between a desire for what various social theorists have called “the common”, and the subordination of that desire to collectively maintained hierarchies, statuses, authority, and antagonistic collaboration. I use qualitative (ethnographic, extended case, discourse analytic) methods, and my main orientation is towards emergent social and organisational processes.

I have held several awards and prizes, including runner-up for the Sage Publications and Work, Employment and Society Prize for Best New Author. In 2006 I was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Department of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley.

I have served as member of the editorial boards of Work Employment and Society and Historical Materialism, and am a member of the Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, EGOS and British Sociological Association.