International migration and mobilities; comparative citizenship, multiculturalism and immigration politics; sociology of the EU, particularly free movement and cosmopolitanism; urban studies; political demography; post-growth cultures; Japanese contemporary art and architecture
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
Social identities and inequalities in educational contexts, including educational attainment and experience according to gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background. Education policymaking relating to system improvement and social justice
Social study of new reproductive technologies and bioscience; histories and cultures of IVF; gender theory; new kinship studies; reproductive sociology; anthropology of reproduction
British and American political thought, c.1870-present, with a focus on empire and international relations; contemporary international political theory; the politics of memory; political aesthetics, especially architecture and speculative literature
Game theory, economic theory, apparent behavioural biases, industrial organisation, law and economics, voting theory, affirmative action, social choice, the problem of prevention
Comparative political economy with a focus on African and other late-developing countries; property rights institutions and land politics; political effects of uneven economic geography and spatial inequality
Pictorial arts in early modern Japan; Katsushika Hokusai
Archaeology and heritage of Africa and the Indian Ocean; archaeology, material culture, anthropological notions of value and identity, medieval empires and trade
The economics of urbanisation, including the evolutions of city systems and the built environment within cities, as related to institutional structures, with a current focus on China and sub-Saharan Africa
Law and gender; social and legal theory, with particular reference to the fields of labour law, tort, jurisprudence, human rights, and sexual violence
Sociolegal studies and contemporary political theory; specialising in state activism (particularly in British local government); gender and sexuality equality governance; everyday utopias and prefigurative institutions; and new conceptual methodologies
Western medieval palaeography; medieval history
Global history of technology, science and production; political and economic history of the United Kingdom; history of warfare and militarism, including the economic and technological history of war; history of invention, innovation and research policy, especially in the United Kingdom
Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature (particularly Seneca and Cicero); the reception of Roman antiquity in the 19th century
Anthropology of the economy, bureaucracy, infrastructures and time; effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; community co-produced policy with government organisations
