Laura is a PhD Candidate at the Department of War Studies. Her research is situated on the nexus between Feminist Political Economy (FPE) and Feminist Security Studies (FSS).

Laura’s thesis is an FPE and FSS exploration of how insecurity is experienced by people who live and socially reproduce everyday life at the sharp ends of the UK’s often-hostile immigration and welfare environments. The Hostile Environment is the ‘field’ to study the dehumanising logics and depleting material processes that make possible, and constitute, the structural violence of insecurity. At the same time, her thesis also explores how this field grounds movements and actions of solidarity and resistance against it. Her work explores these themes through a feminist approach to analysing racial capitalism as a material, epistemic and anti-ethical project, delivered through – and resisted from within – the Hostile Environment.

Laura received a first-class honours Master’s degree in English Studies, Multilingual and Intercultural Communication from the University of Málaga, and a first-class honours Master’s degree in European Studies from the University of Passau, where she also received her Bachelor’s degree in Media and Communication.

 

Research Interests

• Feminist Political Economy
• Feminist Security Studies

Supervisors

• Primary supervisor: Dr Amanda Chisholm
• Second supervisor: Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

Publications

For a list of publications see Laura’s ORCID or PURE account.