My research focuses principally on the professions, professional service firms, and knowledge-intensive services. I have studied, among others, the accounting, advertising, architecture, executive search, and law professions.

Theoretically, my work draws on perspectives from economic geography, organisation studies, and sociology. In recent years, I have developed in three interrelated areas of research.

First, I have been involved in a number of projects examining innovation and the digital transformation of professional work. Most recently, I have examined how artificial intelligence and other digital technologies are beginning to change the work of professionals and the organisation of professional service firms.

Second, I have examined the causes of professional misconduct, wrongdoing and inequalities. This includes studies examining the structural and contextual factors that increase the likelihood of misconduct and wrongdoing, and a project working with the Solicitors Regulation Authority to examine factors contributing to the overrepresentation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic solicitors in concerns raised with and subsequently investigated by the regulator.

Third, I have written extensively about globalisation and professional service firms. This has included studies of the globalisation of executive search firms, architecture firms, advertising agencies and most recently of global law firms in Southeast Asia. As part of this research, I have also examined the role of mobility in the formation of global professional communities.

I am most interested in supervising PhD projects in the three areas above, but would also be happy to consider other projects associated with professions, professional service firms, and knowledge-intensive services.