I am a Sociologist and Lecturer in Fashion Cultures at Manchester Metropolitan University. I am passionate about what fashion studies does to illuminate wider social processes. My research is at the intersection of fashion, consumption, practice, and power relationships. I view fashion as a tool through which to explore lived experiences, focusing on the perspectives of girls who are often marginalised in social and cultural reseach. My research illuminates how girls negotiate complex senses of self and identity on the terrain of fashion through different aspects of consuming clothes such as money and finance, forms of knowledge, management of judgements and understanding the body. I bring my passion and interests to my teaching, leading on the second-year undergraduate unit Fashion Cultures. I encourage students to critique the ways in which inequalities of gender, class, race, sexuality and disability can be reproduced through the fashion system. 

Academic and professional qualifications

PhD Sociology (2023): Negotiating Complex Senses of Self: a study of girlhood and privilege through the lens of fashion, London School of Economics and Political Science

Msc Inequalities and Social Sciences (2016): London School of Economics and Political Science (Distinction)

BA Sociology (2014): University of Leeds (First Class Honours)

Visiting and honorary positions

Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

Undergraduate teaching

I lead and contribute to undergraduate programmes of Fashion Cultures and Critical Studies (department-wide units).

Postgraduate research supervision

I am available for Mres and PhD supervision.

Current PhD supervision:

Jennifer Richards, ‘The Gothicised Body in Fashion and Visual Culture’ (Second Supervisor)

Press and media appearances or contributions

• The Guardian ‘Everyday excess: what’s the deal with fashion’s obsession with supermarkets?’ (31st October 2024)
• The Guardian ‘The Rivals effect: equestrian dressing gallops up the style charts’ (8th November 2024)