I am a sociologist of ageing interested in health and risk, examining the interactions between global, national, and individual level analyses, exploring how (embodied) experiences are produced by discursive and institutional change, contingent on the spaces older people are located in.

My doctoral research centred on the corporeal, emotional and social experience of ageing and physical activity in rural spaces. My post-doctoral research has developed my interests of ageing and health. I developed this corpus of work into a monograph entitled: Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care; which examines the impact of globalisation, neoliberalism, Austerity policies and ageism on health and social care systems in the UK, Sweden and Germany, published in November 2021 by Policy Press as part of their Global Challenges in Ageing Series.

Subsequently, I have developed some of the themes which emerged from my recent book, including feminist ethics of care; necropolitical state decision-making of ageing/death in health and social care systems; intersections between disablism and ageism in the Covid-19 pandemic; and political economic approaches to care and ageing.

In relation to internal and external collaborations, I was appointed to the Centre for Excellence in Rural Health Research steering committee at the University of Aberystwyth; I am an affiliated member of The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD); and a member of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course (CALC). Finally, I was selected by the editing board for Sociological Research Online with expertise in Ageing and have a visiting fellowship at the Centre of Death and Society (CDAS) at the University of Bath, where I lead on Ageing/End of Life.

As Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Programme Lead for Sociology in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, my role is to lead and develop the new Sociology programme launched in 2019. I was also appointed External Examiner for Criminology and Sociology BSc at Swansea University in 2023-24.

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the fields of sociology of ageing, risk and/or health. Either exploring embodied ageing experiences in relation to intersecting identities (gender, ethnicity, 'dis'ability and risk), or political economic approaches to health and the welfare state, precarity/risk, feminist ethics of care, or necropolitical analyses of ageing/death in health and social care systems.