I am Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director of Business Engagement & Innovation for the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus, located in my hometown Penryn. I am also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol Business School, a Co-Investigator of the Economic & Social Research Council Centre for Sociodigital Futures, a Fellow of the Institute for the Future of Work, and Secretary of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association.

I currently co-lead a project on socioeconomic foundations for good work and good growth in Cornwall as part of the Shared Prosperity Fund ‘Evolve Futures’ and ‘Entrepreneurial Futures’ programmes. I recently led a Foundation for European Progressive Studies/Progressive Britain programme on work, security and social democracy, culminating in two reports, A Progressive Politics of Work for the Age of Unpeace: What Labour Can Learn from the European Centre-Left, and Cybersecuronomics: Cybersecurity & Labour’s Modern Industrial Strategy.

I am co-editor of the Routledge Handbook for the Future of Work, and author/coauthor of five books: Marx in Management and Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles 2022); A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia (2021); Value (2020); Corbynism: A Critical Approach (2018) and Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx (2017).

My commentary on policymaking, political economy and the politics of work has been widely featured and covered in media outlets including the Guardian, the Times, the Economist and the Financial Times. I have collaborated with organisations across the private, public and third sectors, including multinational corporations, local authorities, trades unions, government agencies, SMEs, social enterprises, think-tanks, pressure groups and policymakers.