I joined Carleton University’s Department of Law and Legal Studies and the Institute of Political Economy in July 2019, following a few years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick in the UK where I coordinated the Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) network. My research and teaching (and indeed, previous legal practice in Toronto) are primarily in areas of work and labour, I was asked to join Work & Labour Advisory Board around the same time. My research focuses on regulation of work and labour markets from a critical, socio-legal perspective informed by feminist political economy and political ecology. I have written on gendered (and other relational) dimensions of work and the regulatory challenges inherent in historical constitution and ongoing transformations of work and labour markets. Among others, I have examined and written on issues such as working time, work family reconciliation, gender equality and labour market inclusion policies, as well as the role of law in post-socialist transitions and impacts of neoliberalism and crisis governance on labour market reforms.
A parallel strand of my research revolves around the interface of work and environmental regulation, with focus on legal contestations produced by standard legal approaches to governance of this nexus, as well as the possibilities of more ecologically attuned governance and social organization of work. In that regard, I am also interested in commons-based, as well as cooperative work and social solidarity economies.
Starting June 2022, I will be leading a five-year project in collaboration with colleagues from the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil. The project is entitled Law and the Labour/Environment Nexus: Interactions, Implications, and Regulatory Alternatives (SSHRC Insight).
You can find more information about my research and writing here.