I am an interdisciplinary researcher and am currently an assistant professor in sociology. My specialism is in critical understandings of practices, politics and human/other-than-human entanglements in food production. I analyse the existing industrialised food system and draw on an art practice as a method to explore the potential for a socio-environmental transformation.
My research interests include:
- industrial farming and industrially farmed animals (pigs specifically)
- re-imagining the food system through a creative practice
- urban farming
- political economy of food production
- environmental, ecological and multispecies justice
- SOW and augmented reality artivism, Gladkova, E. 11 May 2026, In: Cultural Geographies
- Environmental (in)justice and the post-political, Gladkova, E. 1 Feb 2025, In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
- Food crime, Gladkova, E. 18 Feb 2025, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
- More-than-human urban food growing imaginaries: engaging with the senses, Gladkova, E. 7 Feb 2025, In: Social & Cultural Geography
- Spatializing zoonotic disease dynamics from a political ecology perspective: Reconceptualizing spillover as structure, Masse, F., Gladkova, E. 16 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Political Ecology
- ‘What is visible… and what isn’t’: A public art intervention for re-imagining the food system, Gladkova, E., Matsuda, N. 1 Sep 2025, In: Area
- Why Is There a Huge Pig in Canary Wharf? The Story of SOW, Gladkova, E., Matsuda, N. 2025, In: Geohumanities
- Criminal enforcement of environmental laws cannot deter ecological harm or achieve environmental justice, Stretesky, P., Gladkova, E., Stephens-Griffin, N. 16 Jul 2024, Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement, Cheltenham, Glos., Edward Elgar
- Reimagining Pigs – a multispecies, ecofeminist research method, Gladkova, E., Matsuda, N. 2024, In: Australian Feminist Studies
- Farming intensification in Northern Ireland – a state-corporate environmental harm?, Gladkova, E. 1 Jun 2023, In: Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime
- Invited talk: Research Café - Animals in Civic Futures at University of Manchester 2024
- Invited talk: Guest Lecture for MSc Sociology students at Durham University 2024
- Visiting an external academic institution: University College London 2023
- Invited talk: Industrial farming, environment, and animals - Rising Stars seminar series at University of Hull 2023
- Invited talk: Food for Thought: How Can One's Diet Contribute to a More Sustainable Future? 2019
- Sociology PhD March 31 2021
- Geography MSc August 31 2016
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