Sociology of education; educational inequality; elite education; parental educational strategies; school choice; school segregation; access to higher education; educational policy; comparative and ethnographic research
Elected 2017
Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.
Religion, values and culture in modern and contemporary societies; the decline of institutional churches and the rise and persistence of alternatives
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