Selected writing

The essays

Welfare and inequality
Conditional assistance and constrained agency in UK food banks
Food-bank recipients can manage how they use assistance, but have little control over what is offered or on what terms.
Course essayThe Social Life of Food2026
Digital and cultural sociology
Music streaming, algorithmic recommendation and cultural inequality
A large music catalogue does not guarantee equal visibility. The essay examines how recommendation shapes discovery and listener autonomy.
Course essayPopular Music, Technology and Society2025
Economic anthropology
Debt, obligation and its limits
A critical review of Graeber’s account of debt, asking what it leaves under-examined about work and contemporary finance.
Coursework: critical book reviewConsumption, Exchange, Technology2026

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