Associate Dean, Research & Enterprise, University of Southampton

Pauline Leonard is the Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. She is also a Professor of Sociology, one of the Deputy Directors of the Web Science Institute, and a Founding Member of the Work Futures Research Centre, also at the University of Southampton. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Turing Fellow.

Pauline's principal research interests are in diversity and the changing nature of work. She is currently investigating the impact of organisational and technological change on working lives and careers, and how these are intersected by gender, race, age and social background. She researches these issues in both national and international contexts and is also well known for her research on skilled migration and whiteness.

Pauline is currently engaged in a project funded by the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems on Trustworthy Human Robot Teams. The research investigates how work teams and clients within two sectors: Industrial Cleaning and Defence and Security construct robots and automated systems as trustworthy.