Geography
Elected 1996
Gender and ageing, including care-giving, older men, pensions; health inequalities, including women's health, social capital, cross-national comparisons; sociology of sleep, research on women, couples and ageing
Comparative welfare states, social stratification and inter-generational mobility, family demography and the transformation of gender relations in advanced societies
Unequal geographies; the dynamics and integration of housing, mortgage and financial markets; the uneven geographies of credit and investment risks in housing; the uneasy encounter between market mechanisms and an ethic of care