Sarah is a sociologist with research interests in industrial relations, international labour standards, corporate social responsibility, as well as gender and work, both paid and unpaid. She is currently Head of the Department of Management.
Sarah graduated from Oxford with first class honours in History, before taking an MSc in Russian Government and Politics at 番茄社区. Her doctoral research in Sociology at Warwick examined workers' organisation during Russia's political and economic transformation in the 1990s. Many of her subsequent publications focused on responses to economic collapse and the attempts of to adapt to their new environment.
Her interest in the experiences of women workers led her to develop a second theme of research focused on the (post) and its consequences for and the gender division of domestic labour.
Sarah continues to research these themes, developing different aspects of gender theory by interrogating Russia’s stalled gender revolution. For example, a recent analyses and theorises gender differences in the wellbeing implications of pensioner employment. Sarah’s gender research has been published in American Journal of Sociology, Gender & Society and Journal of Marriage and Family, with two articles nominated for the prestigious for Excellence in Work-Family Research in and .
The latest stream of Sarah’s research focuses on the in the garment industry. Her work, which has been published in Academy of Management Journal and Industrial and Labor Relations Review, analyses global labour governance through corporate social responsibility, as well as transnational industrial relations agreements. Her analysing the emergence of transnational industrial relations agreements won the 2021 James G. Scoville International/Comparative Industrial Relations Best Paper .
Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Faculty Research Group