She is also the Director of The Labour Studies Program and The Morgan Centre for Labour Research. She is a labour geographer and feminist political economist with teaching and research interests in the areas of labour market change, welfare regimes, and systems of regulation. Her work focuses on occupational pensions; precarious work, migration and unfree labour; and on theorizing the relationship between production and social reproduction in contemporary capitalist economies. Before coming to SFU she taught at Birkbeck College (University of London) and held posts at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge, where she was Director of Studies for Geography at Robinson College.