Donna read Economics at UCL after spending a number of years working for Royal Mail, in warehouses and in a bingo hall. Her post graduate studies were at LSE where she started an academic career on a series of casual contracts. She has been employed at RHUL for about twenty years and has held a range of academic administrative positions in her School. Her research interests can broadly be described as labour market issues and pedagogy. Whilst at RHUL she has been a trade union representative for UCU (and briefly AUT), using skills learned as a Communication Workers Union shop steward. Within her London neighbourhood she has been a community (primary) school governor, a member of a local nursery management committee and sits on a GP Practice Patient Group.
