Historical sociology of 20th century Britain; the new middle classes, the changing nature of attachments to locality and place, the relationship between cultural inequalities and social class.
Elected 2007
Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data
International Relations and International Political Economy; historiography of; sociological theory of; global economy and international system, 1492-present; West/non-West relations in long-run perspective
Social, economic and geographic histories of Scotland, the UK, and Western Europe since the 18th century. Social economy of households and families