Background

Brief professional biography

After graduating in economic history, I worked as a Senior Research Associate on the Leverhulme funded Docklands History Project based at the University of Liverpool. Since joining MMU, I have been involved in projects for the Museum of Liverpool and the Arthur Dooley Archive. As well as reviewing book proposals for Manchester University Press and Longmans publishers, I have acted as a research application reviewer for the ESRC. I have supervised two PhDs to completion and am currently supervising one student.

Research Interests

• 19th- and especially 20th-Century Social and Economic History, with a particular focus on issues related to women's studies
• Constructions of gendered identities; gender relations
• workplace experience
• industrial relations
• impact of economic change on ordinary lives
• impact of disaster
• informal economy
• multiculturalism/ethnic identity and experience
• Liverpool
• oral history methodology

Publications

The making of masculinities in interwar Liverpool’, in M.Walsh (ed.), Working Out Gender. Perspectives form Labour History (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999)

‘Work, Culture and Gender: the making of masculinities in post-war Liverpool’, Labour History Review, Vol. 69, No. 2, August 2004, pp.153-167.