Research on unemployment, social inequality, gender and other social determinants of health over the life course
Elected 2015
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
Redeveloping the concept and theory of society in a global era, using complex systems analysis, integrating both violence as an institutional domain and gender as a regime of inequality.
Theory and politics of multiculturalism, secularism, Islamophobia, racial equality; sociology of ethnic minorities in higher education and employment; with special reference to Muslims in Western Europe
