I am a sociologist of race. My research examines the material and discursive processes that reproduce the idea of racial difference, and racist practices and outcomes in education systems.  More broadly, I am interested in the politics of representation (race and ethnicity), in race as a technology of state formation and practices of governance, in the cultural politics of race, and anti-racist education in schooling/comparative and international education.  I am currently carrying out a study relevant to the discursive constitution of British Blackness against a backdrop of notions of 'Englishness'. Methodologically my research draws on critical discourse analysis, corpus approaches to discourse analysis and ethnographic approaches. Theoretically, it is influenced by perspectives from cultural studies, postcolonial sociology and intellectual history. 

I am the lead facilitator of the Race, Empire and Education Collective, a member of the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education and Migration, Mobilities Bristol

I welcome requests for doctoral supervision relevant to my research interests.  Please contact me directly.