Editorial Pen Portrait
Mia Gray is at the Department of Geography, a Fellow of Girton College in the University of Cambridge, and an executive member of the Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies. She is also currently serving as secretary to the Royal Geographic Society-Institute of British Geographers Economic Geography Research Group. Her research interests focus on segmented labour markets, the changing social and organisational dynamics of work, and innovation in regional economies. This research includes work on new unionism in the service sector, gender and social networks, and knowledge communities. She is currently exploring variations in working patterns, identity and cultural norms in multi-sited transnational firms. Other related work has examined the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in the workplace, critiqued the extension of social capital theory into the workplace, and explored how social networks function differentially among workers reinforcing existing patterns of preferential access in the labour market. From 2003-6 she was a co-Editor for Regional Studies.