BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE

2016–present: Humboldt University, International Research Center “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (re:work), Berlin, Germany

• Associate Researcher: “Being and Becoming a Mathematician: Work, Career and Lifecourse in British and German Academia”.

2010–present: The Sociological Imagination, daily online sociology magazine

• Co-founding Editor (with Mark Carrigan) and columnist (The Idle Ethnographer)

2013–2016: University of Warwick, Institute for Employment Reseach (IER), Coventry, United Kingdom

• Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow: “STEM careers: Work, Employment and Lifecourse Trajectories of Mathematical Scientists in the UK and Germany“.

2012–2013: Humboldt University, International Research Center “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (re:work), Berlin, Germany

• Research Fellow: “From Worker-Citizens to Global Labour Market Agents: An Oral History Study of the Post Socialist Working Lives of Bulgarian Seafarers”.

2009–2012: University of Warwick, Department of Sociology, Coventry, United Kingdom

• Sessional teacher in Sociology (part-time)

2007–2012: University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

• PhD Sociology (Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship)
• “What Market Mechanisms Mean: Transforming Institutions and Livelihoods in Bulgarian Maritime Employment”
• Supervisors: Noel Whiteside and Simon Clarke
• Part of the project CAPRIGHT (Resources, rights and capabilities: in search of social foundations for Europe).