Research output per year
Research output per year
PhD, BA(Northumbria)
BS8 1RJ
asylum seekers and social policy; welfare state; labour law; socio-economic rights; political economy; cosmopolitanism; intersectionality
Katie's research centres on forced migration, labour law and the welfare state. She hold's a PhD from Northumbria University which was awarded in 2015. She has worked on two external research projects for the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Both projects centred on the State's compliance with human rights obligations with particular focus on welfare reform and the immigration detention of children.
Katie has presented her research at national and international conferences and has contributed to journals such as the Industrial Law Journal, Economy and Society, and the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. Katie’s new research project focuses on the political economy of state organised forms of work including prison labour, workfare, community payback and labour within immigration detention.
In addition to co-editing the inter-disciplinary 'Futures of Work' blog, Katie is a trustee for the Bristol City of Sanctuary charity and a working group member for the Sanctuary Scholarships team at the University of Bristol.
Twitter: KatieBales2
Selected Media Contributions
Bales, K and Anderson, B (2 August 2018) ‘Refugees must be given access to University’ Times Higher Education Magazine https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/refugees-must-be-given-access-university
Bales, K (7 February 2018) ‘A growing need for Sanctuary Scholarships: Lessons learned from the University of Bristol’ Association of Commonwealth Universities Blog https://www.acu.ac.uk/about-us/blog/sanctuary-scholarships-university-bristol
Bales, K, Bogg, A, Ford, M, Novitz, T, Russell (27 February 2018) ‘Why the idea of ‘good work’ in a gig economy remains a distant ideal’ The Conversation https://theconversation.com/why-the-idea-of-good-work-in-a-gig-economy-remains-a-distant-ideal-92117
Bales, K and Maybin, L (2 August 2017) ‘Paid work’ or underpaid labour? The labour exploitation of detainees within immigration detention’ Discover Society http://discoversociety.org/2017/08/02/paid-work-or-underpaid-labour-the-labour-exploitation-of-detainees-within-immigration-detention/
Bales, K (2 August 2016) ‘Immigration enforcement in the Byron aftermath: The legal limits of what can be required from employers’ University of Bristol Law School Blog http://legalresearch.blogs.bris.ac.uk/2016/09/the-byron-aftermath-the-legal-limits-of-what-can-be-required-from-employers/
Bales, K (9 December 2015) ‘The Immigration Bill is bad news for families’ Open Democracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/katie-bales/immigration-bill-is-bad-news-for-families
Selected Conference Contributions
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Massoumi, N. (Principal Investigator), Anderson, B. (Co-Investigator), Bales, K. L. (Co-Investigator) & Cutler, A. (Co-Investigator)
6/01/20 → 31/07/20
Project: Research