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Professor Cohen joined City St George’s, University of London in 2013. She previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Surrey and the University of Warwick and visiting lecturer at St Petersburg State University. She obtained an MA and then PhD (both in Sociology) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Between 2007 and 2010, Dr Cohen was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Between 2017 and 2020, Dr Cohen was Head of Department of Sociology at City St George’s.
Professor Cohen’s main interests are in the sociology of work and employment; especially ‘non-standard’ work, namely self-employment, mobile work, homeworking, and work-life boundaries. She has explored the working lives and employment relations of particular occupations, including hairdressers, car mechanics and accountants. Her research takes a mixed-methods approach.
She co-edited a special issue of Sociology of Health and Illness on ‘body work’ (work which takes the bodies of others as its object) and an issue of American Behavioral Scientist on Everyday Self-Employment. She has also published on gender and sport.