About
Pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree
Research Area: Political economy; Labour market intermediation; Business cycles; Economic decline; Crisis; Macroeconomic regulation; Japan; US; Eurozone
Supervisor: Dr. Jamie Peck
Affiliations: Visiting PhD Researcher, Department of Geography (McGill; 2022-2023); Fellow, Institute for Asian Research (UBC; 2021-2022); DAAD Research Fellow, Institut für Soziologie and Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften (Universität Duisburg-Essen; 2023-2024)
Degrees: M.A., Geography (UBC); B.A. (Hons.), Urban Studies, summa cum laude (York)
Honours: Four Year Fellowship (UBC; 2022-2026); Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS-D (SSHRC; 2022-2025); Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS-M (SSHRC; 2020-2021); DAAD Research Fellowship (Universität Duisburg-Essen; 2023-2024
I am an economic geographer researching labour market intermediation in North America, Europe, and Japan. I am interested in how business cycles influence labour markets and, particularly, on how economic crises impact our view of labour. I currently study the role of labour market intermediaries like human capital advisory firms in this process, alongside state, private firm, and capital markets actors. I have previously written on central banks, “smart cities,” and Japan’s economy.