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.