Dr Nicola Smith

Dr Nicola Smith

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Associate Professor in Political Science
Deputy Head of Department

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7569
Fax
+44 (0)121 414 3496
Email
n.j.smith.1@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Political Science and International Studies
School of Government
Muirhead Tower
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Nicola Smith is a political economist working on feminist and queer theory, neoliberalism and austerity, sex work and reproductive labour, and the history of the British body politic.

Qualifications

  • PhD Political Science (Birmingham)
  • MA Research Methods (Political Science) (Birmingham)

Biography

Nicola Smith's research focuses on the intersections between feminist political economy and queer theory, and her publications span topics such as sex work, body politics, austerity, and neoliberal discourse. She teaches the final-year undergraduate module "The Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality" (with Sameera Khalfey) and the MA module "Globalisation and Governance", and is currently Postgraduate Director for POLSIS.

Postgraduate supervision

Gender; sexuality; queer theory; feminist theory; sex work; body politics; poverty; genealogy

Research

Feminist political economy

Queer theory

Capitalism

British politics

Sex work

Austerity

Neoliberal discourse

Body politics

Poverty

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Smith, N 2020, . Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations, Oxford University Press.

Laing, M, Pilcher, K & Smith, N 2015, . Taylor & Francis, London.

Article

Morris, A & Smith, N 2024, '', British Politics.

Kingston, S & Smith, N 2020, '', British Journal of Sociology, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 328-348.

Williams, H & Smith, N 2017, '', European Political Science, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 159–178.

Smith, N & Williams, H 2017, '', European Political Science, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 127–134.

Cameron, A, Smith, N & Tepe, D 2016, '', British Politics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 396-417.

Chapter

Gore, E & Smith, N 2023, . in JCW Pevehouse & L Seabrooke (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy . 1 edn, Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press, New York.

Smith, N 2018, . in J Elias & A Roberts (eds), Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender. Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 102-112. <>

Smith, N 2017, . in J Montgomerie (ed.), Critical Methods in Cultural and Political Economy. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, Routledge.

Smith, N 2016, . in J Steans & D Tepe (eds), The Handbook on Gender in World Politics. Edward Elgar.

Smith, N 2016, . in AA Hozic & J True (eds), Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crisis . Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations, Oxford University Press.

Smith, N, Laing, M & Pilcher, K 2015, . in N smith, M Laing & K pilcher (eds), Queer Sex Work . 1st edn, Routledge Studies in Crime and Society, no. 14, Routledge.

Smith, N 2015, . in N Smith, M Laing & K Pilcher (eds), Queer Sex Work . Routledge studies in crime and society, no. 14, Routledge.

Special issue

Smith, N & Lee, D 2015, '', Global Society, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 64-69.