PG Convenors
The PG Forum is organised by a team of convenors. There is a call each year for new PG convenors. Please get in touch with ideas for the PG Forum -we would love to hear from you.
James Frederick Green (he/him): University of Worcester
James Frederick Green is an early-career researcher and Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Worcester. His doctoral thesis examined managerial control mechanisms and the individual and/or collective emotion management techniques employed by workers within the corporate public house (pub) industry. His research interests include emotional labour, labour exploitation, and performing ethnographic investigations in the workplace. James Frederick Green’s research has been published in academic journals including Sociological Research Online and Feminist Criminology.
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Karen Tatham (she/her): University of Leeds
Karen is completing a PhD in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, where her thesis explores employer-education partnerships in higher level vocational pathways and how these affect young adults' access to high skilled work.
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Ms Justice Aina: University of Durham
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Vera Spangler (she/her): University of Surrey
Vera is pursuing a PhD at the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK. Her project is a three-country higher education ethnography considering knowledge legitimacy and the role of international student mobility in the re/production of global hierarchies. Vera uses relational approaches to understand space, place, and time, with a special interest in creative, participatory methodologies
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Luna Fu (she/her): University of LeedsLuna is a PhD student in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK. Her research project investigates the construction and reproduction of hegemonic masculinities and men’s gender performances at the workplace within the organisational structure and culture, focusing on the lived experiences of Chinese men working in the state and private sectors. Luna has a particular interest in exploring gender and feminism within the context of the Global South.
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