Hayley James

Dr Hayley James

Small Group Project 2024-25

Advancing the Understanding of Everyday Financial Risk through Intersectionality

With Ariane Agunsoye & Kate Padgett Walsh

To provide novel insights into intersectionality within everyday finance, the project seeks to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who examine different elements of financial risk, such as gender, race and socio-economic status. In line with ISRF’s goal, the interdisciplinary nature of the network is key to advancing the understanding of intersectional experiences and consequences of financialization.

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Areas of interest

Finance Economic Sociology Gender Money Value Ageing

Cohort

FG10

Biography

Hayley James is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing at Aston Business School. Hayley’s research interests concern sociological perspectives on money, finance and value, and how they intersect with ageing and the lifecourse.

Her thesis, completed at the University of Manchester, examined the impact of automatic enrolment into workplace pensions in the UK on individual decision making using a qualitative research methodology (entitled Connecting Policy with the Personal: UK pension reforms and individual financial decision making). She is interested in exploring topics related to experiences of finance in everyday life and the impact for financial wellbeing over the lifecourse.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25