Role
Alexandra is a Senior Lecturer in Economics. She holds a MSc and PhD in Economics. Her primary areas of teaching are Microeconomics and Environmental & Resource Economics.
Career overview
Alexandra has previously worked as a Lecturer in Economics at Birmingham City University.
Research areas
Alexandra’s research areas of interests are labour economics, ecological economics and feminist economics. Current projects includes investigation of the relationship between preferences to working hours and attitudes to the environment, and the role of collective bargaining.
External activity
Alexandra is the Co-Coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE), which aims to promote open and tolerant debate in economics through a pluralist approach to theory, method, and ideology.
She also sits on the Steering Committee of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ), a network of economists that aim to promote inclusiveness in economics, both in terms of academic content and in its institutional structures.
She is part of the Main Committee for the European Network for the Fair Sharing of Working Time, which represents an attempt to coordinate the efforts of the trade unions, political parties, and civil society actors across Europe.
She is a member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) - is a group of scholars, policy professionals, students, advocates and activists interested in empowering and improving the well-being of women and other under-represented groups around the world; as well as the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) - an interdisciplinary membership organisation of academics and of activists.