I am an ESRC-funded PhD Student in Social Policy. My main research interests are in the pharmaceutical industry, lobbying, and the interaction between the two. Throughout my MRes in Sociology and my role as a Research Assistant, both at the University of Bath, I researched and published on the pharmaceutical industry’s engagement with healthcare organisations and patient organisations in the UK. Following on from this and taking my previous research to a higher level of abstraction, my PhD project is focused on pharmaceutical industry lobbying in the UK. My project seeks to explore what a lobbyist working both in-house and commercially for the pharmaceutical industry in the UK is, as well as how they engage with executive and legislatives branches of government.