Annabel is a Research Fellow in Reparative Studies of Education at the University of Oxford. She is a Black feminist scholar and sociologist of education who research dwells at the intersections of race, gender, class and the life course.

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. She is interested in how the significance of ‘race’ is learnt, negotiated, and reproduced through relationships, interactions, and social space. Whilst at Goldsmiths University Annabel worked on the  Surviving Storms project researching hurricane recovery and was a part of the Understanding Colourism Amongst Young People project which is based at King’s College London. Annabel has also conducted research for local government, the NHS and Bristol’s Police and Crime Commissioner.

Research

Books
  • Andrews, K., Crenshaw, K., & Wilson, A. (2024). Blackness at the Intersection. Bloomsbury Publishing.

  • Book chapters
  • Wilson, A. (2024). Reframing intersectionality: A ’herstory’ of my mother. In K. Andrews, K. Crenshaw, & A. Wilson (Eds.), Blackness at the Intersection. Bloomsbury.

  • Journal articles
  • Wilson, A., Reay, D., Morrin, K., & Abrahams, J. (2021). ‘The still-moving position’ of the ‘working-class’ feminist academic: dealing with disloyalty, dislocation and discomfort. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 42(1), 30-44.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2020.1767936http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2020.1767936

  • Funded Research Projects

    • Reparative Futures of Education (REPAIR-ED)