Nicola Smith
Colleges, School and Institutes
Research interests
Feminist and queer theory
Gender and sexuality
Global political economy
Austerity and neoliberalism
Genealogy
Sex work
Biography
Nicola Smith is a political economist working on feminist and queer theory, neoliberalism and austerity, sex work and reproductive labour, and the history of the British body politic.
Qualifications
PhD Political Science (University of Birmingham)
MA Research Methods (Political Science) (University of Birmingham)
Willingness to take PhD students
Yes
PhD projects
Dr Smith welcomes applications from doctoral researchers in the fields of international political economy, globalisation, global ethics, small states, discourse analysis, and gender and sexuality studies. She currently supervises or co-supervises PhD research on:
Globalisation and the emergence of Latin America
Discourses of abortion in the UK and US
The Romanian construction of the idea of Europe versus the Western idea of Europe