Contemporary Chinese government and politics; Chinese health and social policy, poverty and inequality; comparative politics
Elected 2016
President of the British Association for Chinese Studies (2014-17).
International politics and normative change; causes of war and peace; ethics of the use of force; military doctrine; military greenhouse gas emissions; climate change and security
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
Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
