Feminist Scholar, Researcher & Educator

I am an internationally recognised feminist scholar of critical entrepreneurship and technocultural studies.

My research on digital entrepreneurship and intersectional inequality has prompted a step-change in the field of feminist entrepreneurship studies. I have published a range of highly-cited articles and chapters in well-regarded academic outlets.

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Visit my Google Scholar page for a list of my publications.

My career as an educator spans two decades, first as a youth mentor and teaching artist with isangmahal arts kollective, Youth Speaks Seattle, and Seattle Arts and Lectures Writers in the Schools Programme, and now as a staff member in higher education with a focus on postgraduates and doctoral researchers.

A proud graduate of Seattle’s renowned all-girls Holy Names Academy, I hold a double major in Mathematics and English (Creative Writing emphasis) from University of Washington, an MSc (Dist) Entrepreneurship and PhD Business and Management from Nottingham University Business School, and am a qualified Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA).

I am a Reader in Critical Entrepreneurship and Feminist Technocultural Studies at Loughborough University London, where I have programme directed the MSc Managing Innovation in Creative Organisations, and designed and taught the following modules:

LLP409 Media, Social Movements and Identities
LLP202 Entrepreneurship
LLP206 Understanding Business Failure
LLP207 Principles of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
LLP251 Digital Entrepreneurship

I currently supervise 2 doctoral research students, have supervised 2 students to completion, and have conducted external examinations for the University of Warwick, University of Newcastle, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I was an advisor to the CITHEI Centre for Doctoral Training and mentor many doctoral researchers both within and outside of my institution, including through founding and co-convening the Intersectional Critical Realist Feminism discussion group.

I sit on the editorial review boards of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Human Relations, Organization, the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, and the Journal of Critical Realism.

My theoretical areas of interest and expertise include:

Intersectional Techno-Feminism

I take an intersectional feminist and critical race theory approach to understanding how society and technology are co-created, how digital entrepreneurial activity features in this process, and the consequences for multiply marginalised people.

Critical Realism

I have broken conceptual ground in critical realist feminism and gender studies by developing an intersectional, positional stance and outlining a case for a trans-inclusive realist approach to gender.

I founded and run a discussion group for intersectional critical realist feminism on LinkedIn.

Queerness and Decoloniality

Feminism, critical realism, and the social sciences more generally are being pushed to their intellectual growth edges by these urgent and emergent fields of study. I am committed to deepening my knowledge of unlearning systems of oppression, so new worlds can be brought into being.

A selection of my online presentations are available below.