Topics I would be interested in supervising include:
science, technology and medicine studies - in particular studies of clinical practice, learning and evidence telecare and domestic space; governance and ethics of new care technologies; evidence in action studies; lay ethnographies of technoscience; disaster and recovery studies; disease containment strategy - in particular zoonoses

• My latest publication ‘From Victims to Actors’ draws on a longstanding interest in citizen engagement in science and technology and my recent interest in what is rated as the UK’s most serious ‘natural’ hazard: flooding. I work largely with ethnographic and participative methodologies with which I have explored how policy can be influenced by the experience of those it affects, most recently in relation to disaster and emergency management. To this end, I am currently the Coordinator of the EC Horizon 2020 project, CUIDAR: Cultures of Disaster Resilience among children and young people. This work follows directly from our ESRC Urgency research which was the first in depth exploration of children’s experiences of flooding in the UK. More broadly, working in the field of Science and Technology Studies I have focused on technological change in healthcare such as the development of telemedicine and telecare, and what counts as innovation in health science and technology.

Current and recent projects include:

• CUIDAR: Cultures of Disaster Resilience Amongst Children and Young People EC H2020 Coordinator (UK, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy, with Save the Children).
• Children, young people and disasters: recovery and resilience (ESRC Urgency Project)
• Living Data: Biosensors in Everyday Life (with Celia Roberts & Adrian Mackenzie)
• Lost in Translation: Complexity, Risk and Resilience in Animal Disease Strategies - an inter-disciplinary evaluation of the natural and societal effectiveness of containment strategies for animal diseases (ESRC/NERC Rural Economy & Land Use Programme RELU). http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/cswm/LiT/po.php
• EFORTT: Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for Older People at Home, (EC FP7 Science in Society) Co-ordinator of collaborative research project http://www.lancs.ac.uk/efortt/index.html
• Flood, vulnerability and resilience: a real-time study of local recovery following the floods of June 2007 in Hull (Environment Agency/ESRC) http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/cswm/Hull%20Floods%20Project/HFP_home.php
• The Health & Social Consequences of the 2001 UK Foot & Mouth Disease Epidemic (Department of Health) http://www.footandmouthstudy.org.uk/
• Understanding Expertise in Anaesthesia (NHS R&D Fund)

I convene Socl 311 Disasters: why do things go wrong? and contribute to Skills for Researching Social Life in Part II Sociology.

I co-teach on Health, Life & Bodies (Socl 306) with Celia Roberts where we have pioneered problem based learning methods in Sociology. 

I am currently supervising three doctoral students in Sociology and one in Lancaster Medical School. The doctoral studies relate to biosensors, co-production of care services, telecare, patient safety and Bovine TB policy.