I work at the intersection of sociology, politics and political economy to investigate how social and political order is imgained, produced and contested in a range of empirical contexts. 

Research interests

• Governance analysis: theorising governance, statehood and public policy as 'regimes of governing practices'
• Political economy of automating rule: the political economies, form and effects of AI technologies in governance. 
• Migration governance and the production of socio-political order(s) in the EU and beyond.

I am Co-I, and management team lead for AI and Public Policy, on the UKRI Doctoral Training Centre on Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI at Bath. I am a member of the British Standards Institute Committee for AI standards; their Expert Panel on Data and Information Management; and the IEEE working group on Procurement and Artificial Inteligence.

I have extensive public and policy engagement experience nationally and internationally, including presentations to parliamentary bodies and public servants, as well as dozens of media contributions.

I sit on the editorial boards of the Journal of Social Policy and Administration, and the Italian Journal of Social Policy.

I have supervised and co-supervised more than 10 PhD students to completion, and have twice been nominated for a university prize for excellence in doctoral supervision. I am always keen to hear from committed students working in my broad research areas.

Recent projects

• Mobile Welfare in a Transnational Europe: An analysis of Portability Regimes of Social Security Rights (TRANSWEL)
• Fellowship supervisor to Dr Thanos Maroukis on Jobs-to-Rent.