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Rachel Lara Cohen

Reader in Sociology, City, University of London

Rachel researches work and employment. She is particularly interested in non-standard work, including self-employment and home-working. She has written about body work in health and social care and hairstyling. She is also involved in projects that look at the work of car mechanics and accountants. Rachel uses mixed - quantitative and qualitative - methods. She has written about feminism and quantitative methods and gender and sport.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Reader in Sociology, City, University of London
  • 2013–2019
    Senior Lecturer in Sociology, City, University of London
  • 2010–2013
    Lecturer, University of Surrey
  • 2007–2010
    Postdoctoral fellow, University of Warwick
  • 2005–2007
    Lecturer , University of Warwick

Education

  • 2005 
    UCLA, PhD

Publications

  • 2017
    The Feminisation of Body Work, Gender, Work and Organisation