My research focuses on practices of refusal, community building, and future making across social groups, and temporal and geographic boundaries.I am currently developing a monograph entitled "Irrepressible Futures: Black Refusal and Prefiguration in Contemporary France" which interrogates developments in black cultural practices in France over the past decade. I am also working on two subsequent projects, one exploring the idea of children's resistance from a children's liberation perspective, and the other tracing the role of cultural practices and nightlife in the West African migrant worker's activist practices and community building in France in the 1970s and 1980s.Before joining KCL, I was the Lumley Research Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where I also completed my doctorate in Sociology.

Research interests

• Cultural Studies
• Race and Racism in Europe
• Prefigurative Politics
• Feminist Theory
• Queer of Colour Critique
• Children's Liberation
• Creative Research Methods

Teaching

I teach on the BA in Social Sciences, contributing to the following modules:

• Understanding the Social World
• Advanced Methods in Social Research
• Civil and Political Rights

I also lecture on the Arts, Culture and Education module for the MA Education in Arts and Cultural Settings.

PhD supervision

I am happy to supervise PhD students working on topics surrounding cultural studies, race and racism and feminist and queer theory.

Find out more about Sophie's research on Sophie's PURE Research profile page.