In today's programme our QUAL-LIGHTHOUSE guest is Dr Kim Allen, Associate Professor in Social Inequalities at the School of Sociology & Social Policy (University of Leeds, UK). An interdisciplinary feminist researcher, Dr Allen's research is located at the intersections of youth studies, sociology, gender studies, and cultural studies. You can find out more about Kim's work here: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/staff/1/dr-kim-allen

We discussed the process of writing and publishing Kim's first qualitative paper post PhD:  Allen, K., 2014. ‘Blair's children’: young women as ‘aspirational subjects’ in the psychic landscape of class.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-954X.12113

Kim selected the song "Get it Right" by Aretha Franklin to represent this paper. You can listen the full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsnQXghCpFg

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