I left Mauritius-my country of origin-in my early 20s to pursue tertiary studies in Montpellier, France before completing master’s and PhD studies at the University of Leicester, UK. Becoming multilingual since my undergraduate years has implied paying constant attention to socio-cultural idiosyncrasies and differences in the distinct geographical contexts in which I have lived and worked.
I have been keen on undertaking academic activities with an ontological focus that aims to put forward workers’ voice and highlight opportunities for ensuring decent work. My interests lie more specifically with social actors’ experimentation with the creation, questioning and improvement of human resource management (HRM) practices across an array of industries. So far, I have focused on multiple actors’ attempts to regulate work and employment in an emerging business process outsourcing industry in the global south, in the aerospace industries of Canada and Mexico, and in regard to staffing, skill development and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) matters in non-profit organisations such as trade unions in Canada and Spain.
While I study other individuals’ experimentation, I believe in the relevance of living an academic career by allowing space for new initiatives in ethnographic activities. This perspective has allowed me to nurture a concomitant interest in methodological experimentation including film-based sociology, fiction writing and action-research with which I was brought to engage in an academic context in Montreal, Canada, before joining the University of Bristol business school.