Kim Allen

I am a feminist interdisciplinary scholar whose work sits at the intersections of youth, culture, gender and work.

I have published widely on issues including: youth and graduate transitions and ‘employability’; educational inequalities; gender, youth and working lives; and representations of class and gender in popular culture. My co-authored book - Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth: Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity – was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2018.

I have worked on a range of research projects, including: ‘Celebrity Culture and Young People’s Classed and Gendered Aspirations’ (ESRC); Young women’s transitions in austerity (British Academy); and ‘Living Gender in Diverse Times’(ESRC). I am currently Principal Investigator on a major ESRC funded project ,’L-earning: rethinking young women's working lives’.