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 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 is used in exclusion.

My most recent research, which was situated in the British national context, dealt with LGBTQI+ young people's experiences of sexual harassment and violence. 

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 Social and Cultural Psychology (L4), Critical Psychology (L5), Discursive Psychology (L5), and the MSc Dissertation (Sociology) module. I also contribute to teaching in the Dissertation (Sociology) (L6) module, Sociological Research Methods (L7), and Identities and Inequalities (L7).