Dr Carol Wolkowitz joined the Department of Sociology in 1986 and was an active member of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender from its inception in 1993. She continued this involvement after she retired, serving as a valued member of the Centre Collective and being a founder member and first director of CREW, the Centre for Research on Employment and Work. Carol’s research area was the sociology of work and she developed an original and highly influential analysis of body work in her book Bodies at Work which was published in 2006; in it she combined her interest in work with her enthusiasm for photography as a mode of sociological analysis. Carol will be remembered as a much-loved and inspirational teacher who was devoted to helping students grapple with ideas and hone their sociological imaginations. Her doctoral students benefitted from her meticulous supervision and the depth of her knowledge of her subject while her undergraduate courses – ‘Sexualities’ and ‘Visual Sociology’ – were hugely popular with students; at Master’s level she taught in her specialist area - gender and work. She continued researching and writing well into retirement and was working on a paper combining visual methods and her interest in work at the time of her death.