I am a senior lecturer in economics at UWE, Bristol, where I am currently teaching macroeonomics and economic policy. I previously spent five years at Kingston University, London, and was a teaching fellow at SOAS, University of London, where I completed my doctorate on pension reforms in the European Union with Jan Toporowski.
My research continues to focus on the behaviour of financial institutions (particularly pensions) drawing on post-Keynesian institutional macroeconomics, critical finance and international political economy. I am actively engaged in public pension policy debates in the UK and globally, drawing attention to the macroeconomic consequences of system design, the soundness of investments, the adequacy of retirement benefits and questions of distributional justice. I have worked with organisations including the Women's Budget Group, Common Wealth, Finance Innovation Lab, Unite the Union and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.
My first degree was in Philosophy and I have a side-line in the epistemology of economics. I have written on the pragmatist nature of post-Keynesian economics, including that of J.M. Keynes himself, drawing on pragmatist thought from C.S. Peirce to Hasok Chang.