I am a Senior Research Officer in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, working on the ESRC-funded project ‘Gender & Political Processes in the Context of Devolution’. I have also worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth and the Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities at Cardiff University. I have previously carried out freelance social research projects, lectured in Social Policy for the Open University and am presently also a Research Associate of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London.

• From marginalization to participation and back again: including people with learning difficulties in research, Sole-authored paper forthcoming in the journal Disability Studies Quarterly
• An Audit of Domestic Abuse in Swansea: Report of Consultation Findings, Co-authored with Nickie Charles and Helen Edwards for Swansea Domestic Abuse Unit 2005
• Looking at the future and seeing the past: the challenge of the middle years of parenting a child with intellectual disabilities, Co-authored paper with Stuart Todd: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Vol. 49 Issue 6, June 2005
• Family Quality of Life in Wales, Co-authored chapter with Stuart Todd, Pauline Young & Julia Shearn in edited volume: Families and People with Mental Retardation and Quality of Life – International Perspectives, American Association on Mental Retardation 2004
• ‘Mum’s the Word!’: Maternal Accounts of dealings with the Professional World, Co-authored paper with Stuart Todd: Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities Vol.16, September 2003
• Welsh Communities: New Ethnographic Perspectives, Co-edited book with Charlotte Aull Davies, Published by The University of Wales Press, 2003
• Supporting the Team, Sustaining the Community: Gender and Rugby in a Former Mining Village, Sole-authored chapter in Welsh Communities: New Ethnographic Perspectives edited volume: The University of Wales Press, 2003
• Reflecting on Welsh Communities, Co-authored chapter with Charlotte Davies in Welsh Communities: New Ethnographic Perspectives edited volume: The University of Wales Press, 2003
• Making it Work – Strategies for Success in Supported Employment, Co-authored with Jeff Morgan, Dé Murphy and Julia Shearn, research report: The Joseph Rowntree Foundation/Pavilion Publishing, 2002
• Claiming a voice: people with learning difficulties participating in research, Co-authored with Jeff Morgan, Dé Murphy and Julia Shearn, presented at the Anthropology Wales Conference, Cardiff, 2002
• Work, Employment and Society Volume 13 Issue 4 12/99 review of Young Adult Women, Work & Family: Living a Contradiction by I. Proctor & M. Padfield
• Jacobite Imagery in Wales: Evidence of Political Activity?; Sole-authored paper in The Historian journal, Spring, 1998, also published by The Royal Stuart Society, Paper LIII, 1999
• Charles William Mansel Lewis: Painter, Patron and Promoter of Art in Wales, Sole-authored book: Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 1998
• “Still a Mining Community”: Gender and Change in the Upper Dulais Valley, PhD thesis 1997 University of Wales, Swansea