Susy is a third year PhD student, based in the University of York Politics and International Relations Department. Her research, situated within Critical Political Economy and Labour Migration Studies, is focused on the barriers to addressing the (super)exploitation of migrant workers in the fast fashion manufacturing industry in the UK. She adopts critical approaches in her research, including frameworks from post/de/anti-colonial, post-Marxist, post-structuralist and feminist theoretical lenses, while aiming to be disruptive in research methodology.
Additionally to her research, Susy has co-led the Anti-Racism Working Group with Mel since early 2022, and is involved in other social justice activist work. She collaboratively set up and coordinated the York Staff-Student Alliance with four other PGRs; works closely with a garment worker rights organisation which informs her approach to research; and supports different local community groups within York, including migrant solidarity and Palestinian solidarity campaigns.
