Kate Hardy

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 666 citations indexed

About

Kate Hardy is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Kate Hardy has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 666 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Public Administration and 6 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Kate Hardy's work include Sex work and related issues (14 papers), Digital Economy and Work Transformation (10 papers) and Labor Movements and Unions (7 papers). Kate Hardy is often cited by papers focused on Sex work and related issues (14 papers), Digital Economy and Work Transformation (10 papers) and Labor Movements and Unions (7 papers). Kate Hardy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico. Kate Hardy's co-authors include Teela Sanders, Vera Trappmann, Gabriella Alberti, Charles Umney, Ioulia Bessa, Keith Randle, Paul Watt, Tom Gillespie, Sarah Kingston and Mark Stuart and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Sociology, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space and American Behavioral Scientist.

In The Last Decade

Kate Hardy

27 papers receiving 612 citations

Hit Papers

In, Against and Beyond Precarity: Work in Insecure Times 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. In, Against and Beyond Precarity: Work in Insecure Times
    2018 189 citations Gabriella Alberti, Ioulia Bessa et al. Work Employment and Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kate Hardy United Kingdom 14 445 228 129 106 85 30 666
Adina Batnitzky United Kingdom 12 732 1.6× 360 1.6× 102 0.8× 47 0.4× 141 1.7× 14 991
Lynne Pettinger United Kingdom 10 356 0.8× 57 0.3× 150 1.2× 62 0.6× 56 0.7× 18 540
Hannah Lewis United Kingdom 13 617 1.4× 314 1.4× 26 0.2× 113 1.1× 49 0.6× 32 776
Yara Evans United Kingdom 13 725 1.6× 388 1.7× 41 0.3× 31 0.3× 158 1.9× 20 963
Martha Crowley United States 15 568 1.3× 186 0.8× 225 1.7× 48 0.5× 49 0.6× 23 800
Cynthia J. Cranford Canada 14 415 0.9× 328 1.4× 53 0.4× 34 0.3× 178 2.1× 29 651
Joanna Herbert United Kingdom 11 564 1.3× 273 1.2× 31 0.2× 25 0.2× 99 1.2× 17 711
Ellen Reese United States 15 487 1.1× 237 1.0× 160 1.2× 20 0.2× 130 1.5× 54 810
Alice O’Connor United States 10 491 1.1× 200 0.9× 76 0.6× 17 0.2× 53 0.6× 25 782
Gabriella Alberti United Kingdom 12 527 1.2× 411 1.8× 65 0.5× 21 0.2× 298 3.5× 23 763

Countries citing papers authored by Kate Hardy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kate Hardy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kate Hardy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kate Hardy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kate Hardy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kate Hardy. Kate Hardy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hardy, Kate, et al.. (2025). Locating online labour: The salience of the national scale in remote digital work. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 57(4). 369–384. 1 indexed citations
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Cole, Matt, Mark Stuart, Kate Hardy, & David Spencer. (2022). Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time. Work Employment and Society. 38(1). 103–121. 12 indexed citations
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Hardy, Kate, et al.. (2021). Hustling the Platform. South Atlantic Quarterly. 120(3). 533–551. 21 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tom, Kate Hardy, & Paul Watt. (2021). Surplus to the city: Austerity urbanism, displacement and ‘letting die’. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 53(7). 1713–1729. 32 indexed citations
5.
Hardy, Kate, et al.. (2018). Affective Organizing: Collectivizing Informal Sex Workers in an Intimate Union. American Behavioral Scientist. 63(2). 244–261. 8 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tom, Kate Hardy, & Paul Watt. (2018). Austerity urbanism and Olympic counter-legacies: Gendering, defending and expanding the urban commons in East London. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 36(5). 812–830. 22 indexed citations
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Alberti, Gabriella, Ioulia Bessa, Kate Hardy, Vera Trappmann, & Charles Umney. (2018). In, Against and Beyond Precarity: Work in Insecure Times. Work Employment and Society. 32(3). 447–457. 189 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stuart, Mark, Simon Joyce, Vera Trappmann, et al.. (2017). The social protection of workers in the platform economy. Repositori UJI (Universitat Jaume I). 70 indexed citations
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Hardy, Kate, et al.. (2016). False Self‐Employment, Autonomy and Regulating for Decent Work: Improving Working Conditions in the UK Stripping Industry. British Journal of Industrial Relations. 55(2). 274–294. 31 indexed citations
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Randle, Keith & Kate Hardy. (2016). Macho, mobile and resilient? How workers with impairments are doubly disabled in project-based film and television work. Work Employment and Society. 31(3). 447–464. 41 indexed citations
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Sanders, Teela, Kate Hardy, & Rosie Campbell. (2014). Regulating Strip-Based Entertainment: Sexual Entertainment Venue Policy and the Ex/Inclusion of Dancers’ Perspectives and Needs. Social Policy and Society. 14(1). 83–92. 4 indexed citations
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Charlwood, Andy, Chris Forde, Irena Grugulis, et al.. (2014). Clear, rigorous and relevant: publishing quantitative research articles in Work, employment and society. Work Employment and Society. 28(2). 155–167. 8 indexed citations
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Sanders, Teela & Kate Hardy. (2014). Flexible Workers: Labour, Regulation and the Political Economy of the Stripping Industry. 13 indexed citations
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Sanders, Teela & Kate Hardy. (2014). Flexible Workers. 20 indexed citations
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Wolkowitz, Carol, Rachel Lara Cohen, Teela Sanders, & Kate Hardy. (2013). Sex/Body/Work : intimate, sexualized and embodied labour. 1 indexed citations
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Sanders, Teela & Kate Hardy. (2013). Students selling sex: marketisation, higher education and consumption. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 36(5). 747–765. 24 indexed citations
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Sanders, Teela & Kate Hardy. (2012). Devalued, deskilled and diversified: explaining the proliferation of the strip industry in the UK. British Journal of Sociology. 63(3). 513–532. 23 indexed citations
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Hardy, Kate. (2011). Dissonant emotions, divergent outcomes: Constructing space for emotional methodologies in development. Emotion, space and society. 5(2). 113–121. 12 indexed citations
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Hardy, Kate, et al.. (2010). Taxi Dancers: Tango Labour and Commercialized Intimacy in Buenos Aires. 149–160. 1 indexed citations
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Hardy, Kate, et al.. (1993). Cell allocation in twin half mouse embryos bisected at the 8‐cell stage: Implications for preimplantation diagnosis. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 36(1). 16–22. 11 indexed citations

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