Staff profile

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) I use an extended case ethnography to investigate the social relation of rent and urban precarity in London. I work at an intersection of political economy and the urban sociology of Wacquant

My undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are from the University of London and University of Cambridge. I held the IMESS programme scholarship at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies for the MA in Economy, State and Society. 

 

Conference Papers

• Structural and experiential 'folds' - sense making and the urban precariat with and against Wacquant and Willis - Critical perspectives on lived experience in social security policy research workshop - LSE, November 2024 
• Inside urban rental precarity - The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies, Governing the city: polity, politics, policy, Lisbon, November 2024
• The structure of institutional insulation in contested pharmaceutical spending governance - BSA Medical Sociology Conference, Warwick, September 2024 
• The theoretical and institutional significance(s) of stable government pharmaceutical spending with increased reimbursement mix - Seventh Annual Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Early Career Researcher Conference, Durham, June 2024 
• Money Saving Platforms, Offence and Symbolic Violence - Understanding Offence, (de)limiting the unsayable, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, March 2024 
•  Jessopified-skocpolianism - institutional insulation in state pharmaceutical spending – In Sickness and in Health Conference, Auckland, February 2024 
•  On Burawoy, Desmond and the extended case method in housing cases - The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies, Imaginaries of inhabitation, or, the future of planetary dwelling, Lisbon, November 2023 
•  The selectivity's of New Zealand's pharmaceutical spending policy: incentivisation games, power and societal surplus - BSA Medical Sociology Conference, Sussex, September, 2023 
•  Thrift, mental health and subsistence – Social Policy Association Conference, Nottingham, July 2023 
•  UK Mental health policy and discontinuities in the socio-cultural regime of crisis management - Rising inequalities and Poverty – Politics of Lived experience, PGR conference, Durham University, Durham, March 2023 

Teaching

Guest Lecture in Sociology, Durham University, Department of Sociology 2024 - 25

Guest Lecture in Political Economy, Durham University, School of Government and International affairs (SGIA) 2024 -25

Teaching Assistant/Seminar Tutor, Durham University, School of Government and International affairs (SGIA) and Durham University, Department of Sociology (academic year 2024-25)

• Perspectives of Political Economy 
• Capitalism: History and Theory 
• Introduction to Criminological Theory

Seminar tutor (academic year 2023/24):-

• Capitalism: History and Theory
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Practises Across Social Research (PG)
• Perspectives of Political Economy
• Political Theory

Seminar tutor (academic year 2022/23):

• Contemporary Criminological Theory
• Criminal Justice Landscape
• Social Work in Context (PG)

Journal Article

• Pricing strategies, executive committee power and negotiation leverage in New Zealand’s containment of public spending on pharmaceuticals
  
  Main, B., Csanadi, M., & Ozieranski, P. (2022). Pricing strategies, executive committee power and negotiation leverage in New Zealand’s containment of public spending on pharmaceuticals. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 17(3), 348-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744133122000068
• Divergent spender: State‐societal and meso‐organisational mechanisms in the containment of public spending on pharmaceuticals in a liberal capitalist democracy
  
  Main, B., & Ozieranski, P. (2021). Divergent spender: State‐societal and meso‐organisational mechanisms in the containment of public spending on pharmaceuticals in a liberal capitalist democracy. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43(6), 1518-1539. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13343