I would be happy to work with students whose projects relate to my research interests, including work on theories of practice, time, space, rhythm, materiality, embodiment, habit, consumption, demand, mobility, energy, travel, and public health, smoking, obesity, and exercise.

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You can find out more about my work and links to papers and other resources on my personal website.

You can follow my research on the other links.

Current roles include:

• Co-Director of the Centre for Practice Theory at Lancaster;
• Co-Investigator on the EPSRC funded Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) working on issues of Flexibility.

Current teaching includes:

• SOCL101: 'The Sociological Imagination' -  I teach an introductory block on ‘Consumption’;
• SOCL955: 'Practice Theory' - I co-convene this course which is also open to students and early career researchers outside of Lancaster.

Department role:

• From 2024, I'm working as Deputy Head of the Sociology Department.

Office Hours:

• Please just email me to find a time that works for us both.

For details on current and past research projects, links to publications, and talks; media articles, press, and videos; engagement, impact, and more - please see my Personal Website.

Academic collaborations include:

Co-Director, Centre for Practice Theory at Lancaster (2021-present);

Co-I, Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (2018-2023);

Research Fellow, DEMAND Centre, Lancaster University (2015-2017);

Affiliated with the Norah Fry Institute at the University of Bristol (2015-2017);

Visiting Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT, Melbourne (Oct-Dec 2016);

Member of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester (2013-2015).