Harriet Bradley

Harriet has recently joined UWE as Professor of Women's Employment with an attachment to the Centre for Employment Research Studies in the Faculty of Business and Law. Before that she was Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol where she remains a Professor Emerita. She also holds an Honary Professorship at Bath University and is an Honary Doctor at Karlstad University in Sweden. +

Area of expertise Harriet's research interests are broad and varied. She has a general interest in work and change and structures of inequality. She has written and researched on a variety of topics: women's work in the labour market and the household; women and reproduction; gender and ethnicity in Trade Unions; young people's life histories and employment; intersections of class, ethnicity and gender. She has held a number of grants from a variety of funders: ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, Joseph Rowntree Fund, ESF and the EOC. Her current 2 projects are qualitiative studies of class inequalities, one focusing on families, the other on higher education. She has a current strong interest in the impact of the recession on women and young people.

Publications

Bradley, H. and Waller, R. (2018) Gendered and classed graduate transitions to work: How the unequal playing field is constructed, maintained and experienced. In: Waller, R., Ingram, N. and Ward, M. R., eds. (2018) Higher Education and Social Inequalities: University admissions, experiences and outcomes. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 210-230. ISBN 9781138212886 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/34531 ' Bradley, H., Waller, R., Bathmaker, A. M., Ingram, N., Hoare, A., Bentley, L., Papafilippou, V. and Abrahams, J. (2017) Paired peers: Moving on up? Project Report. Project Report. Leverhulme Trust. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35612 ' Bathmaker, A.-M., Ingram, N., Abrahams, J., Hoare, A., Waller, R. and Bradley, H. (2016) Higher education, social class and social mobility: The degree generation. London: PalgraveMacmillan. ISBN 9781137534804 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/34490 ' Bradley, H., Waller, R., Abrahams, J., Beedell, P., Bathmaker, A.-M., Ingram, N., Hoare, A. and Mellor, J. (2013) The Paired Peers project report. Project Report. Leverhulme Trust. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35614 '