Rate My Professor Alex Simpson

Simpson's research specializations include social finance studies, embodiment, gender, zemiology (social harm), elite deviance, cultural production of space, ethnographic research methods, and organisational culture and practice. Drawing on cultural theories from Bourdieu, Foucault, and Derrida, his investigations focus on performative rituals of elite social groups, the maintenance of financial landscapes, and masculinist identities that sustain neoliberal traits such as competition, aggression, and risk-seeking. Current projects examine the erasure and incorporation of Sydney's Barangaroo financial district. He has produced 41 research outputs, including 22 articles, nine chapters, two books, and one edited book. Key publications feature the monograph Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London (Emerald, 2021); co-edited Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and Belonging (Bristol University Press, 2024), with his chapter Affective atmospheres of finance: gendered impacts of financialization within Sydney's Barangaroo development (with P. McGuinness); Hauntology: An Introduction for Criminologists (Routledge, 2026, with P. McGuinness, T. Fredriksson, and M. Fiddler); 'I've seen people on the train, like really weird people': hauntological reflections on the fear of crime (Crime, Media, Culture, 2025, with M. Lee and P. McGuinness); and A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the City of London (Ethnography, 2024). Awards include the Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management Paper of the Year Award for Excellence (2013, shared with N. Slutskaya and J. Hughes) and the Work, Employment and Society SAGE Prize for Innovation (2018, shared with J. Hughes, R. Simpson, N. Slutskaya, and K. Hughes). He has contributed to 11 press and media pieces on topics including knife crime, youth crime, and gun violence.