Kris is a qualitative researcher focused on documenting lived experience and applying it to policy and practice change.  Kris' current work investigates financial insecurity in connection to challenges such as precarious work, living in the private rental market, and financial exclusion.  His wider research agenda centres on everyday insecurities, especially within the contexts of work, housing, relationships, and gender inequality, and how connections between these shape financial outcomes.

Kris’ PhD explored how precarious workers’ saving and pension planning decisions are shaped by the contextual precarity of their everyday lives.  He maintained a focus on the application of relational sociological theory to understand the social world and employed a mixed methodology of qualitative interviews and financial diaries to better understand individuals’ everyday financial lives.

Before joining CHASM, Kris worked as a Research Associate for the Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing (CPFW) at Aston University and a Teaching Assistant within the Sociology Department at the University of Manchester.

• Precarious Work, Precarious Assets: Gig-Work in the Asset Welfare State
• Precarity in the Private Rental Sector: The Consequences for Financial Security
• Workforce Economic Inclusion and Mobility (WEIM) Project: Insights from the UK