Biography

I am a sociological social psychologist who joined the University of Portsmouth in August 2018, shortly after completing my PhD at the University of Helsinki, Finland. My PhD was a methodological and empirical investigation dealing with productions and deployments of social values in identification processes. 

Research interests

My research interests include motivated language and the discursive construction of values and identification, negotiations of meaning and power in talk and text, and discursive and qualitative methodologies.

As part of a post-doc project, I analysed Finnish parliamentary talk in communicative contexts of migration. My focus was on how discourses on Finnish gender equality are used in exclusion. My most recent research dealt with LGBTQI+ young people's experiences of sexual harassment and violence. I am currently engaged in a research project examining anti-woke discourses, with a focus on how they are mobilised in exclusion and the maintenance of power imbalances and inequalities.

Teaching responsibilities

I contribute to module coordination and teaching of modules on Sociology BSc (Hons), Sociology with Psychology BSc (Hons), and Sociology with Criminology BSc (Hons) courses, as well as the Sociology MSc course.

My main teaching contributions are in Psychology in the Social World (L4), Critical Psychology (L5), Discursive Psychology (L5), and Political Psychology (L6). I also contribute to teaching in Sociological Research Methods (L7), Identities and Inequalities (L7), and Sociology in Action (L7).