Social and Economic Inequalities, Health Inequalities; Social Theory, Historical Sociology, Stigma, Welfare, Poverty, Housing, Class Struggle, Race and Anti-Racialism, Capitalist Enclosures, Rural Inequalities, Land, Resource and Asset Stuggles; Commons and Commoning; Colonialism and Decolonisation, Borders and Citizenship, Social and Health Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change, Social Movements; Historical and Genealogical Methods and Approaches, Public Sociology; Participatory Research Methods, Community Engagement; Heritage and Museums.

2024- Advisory Board Member European Research Council Horizon 1.1 Research Project 'Who Counts? Incorporating a ‘Missing Minority’ to Re-examine the Profile, Drivers and Depth of Poverty across Europe', UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA.

2024- ESRC Peer Review College

2024- Co-Chair Lancaster Black History Community Group

2024- Contributing teacher, Lancashire and South Cumbria Population Health Academy

2022- Council Member and Trustee (elected) Academy of Social Sciences

2022-2024 Consultant- Participant Joseph Rowntree Foundation ‘Stigma Free Futures’

2019 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Science

2022-2024 Consultant 'Facing the Past' project, Lancashire County Council Museum Service, Association of Independent Museums (AIM) New Stories New Audiences.

2021 Lancaster City Council and Lancaster University INSIGHTS HUB 

2020 Advisory Group Member, Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission

2020 Board Member, Lancaster Black History Community Group

2019- 2024 Trustee (elected), National Poverty Truth Network (UK Charity)

2018-2020 Civic Commissioner, Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission