Dr Annabel Wilson

Dr Annabel Wilson is a Research Assistant on the ‘Understanding colourism among young people in the UK’ project.

She is a Black feminist scholar and an early career sociologist of education committed to the study of racialisation and educational inequality as it is experienced and reproduced. Annabel’s PhD research followed the lives of Black ‘mixed race’ young people and their family members, exploring the development of racialised subjectivity and its effects on social action. Her research dwells at the intersections of race, gender, class, and the life course. She is interested in how the significance of ‘race’ is learnt, negotiated, and reproduced through relationships, interactions, and across social space.

She has also conducted research on young people’s experiences of education for Bristol City Council, Health Services for the NHS, and Sexual Exploitation Services for the Police.

Previously, Annabel worked as a Research Associate and Project Manager, for Goldsmiths University as part of the Surviving Storms | Caribbean Cyclone Cartography Project (2019-22), funded by the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).

From Cardiff University, Annabel has an ESRC-funded PhD in Education and Master’s in Social Research, and from the University of the West of England, she has a PostGraduate Diploma in Business Management, and a BA in Sociology.

Research interests

• Racialisation.
• Social class.
• Family.
• Education.
• Inequality.