East Asia China South America Brazil Economics Commerce Economic Systems Political Economics Technological Economics
Elected 2006
The health impact of social policies (education, families, pensions, long-term care, poverty and employment); the role of institutions in explaining international differences in ageing; the socio-economic impacts of mental health.
Cultural and comparative sociology, particularly: culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and collective well-being, and cultural processes and qualitative methods
The governing of education in Europe and in the constituent nations of the UK, comparative work on education policy making, with a focus on data, knowledge and elites