Over the last few years, I have moved from pure reception study to a more eclectic research practice working between cultural sociology, media studies, and book history in the attempt to understand complex issues such as the maintenance of ‘distinction’ among cultural producers and consumers. In terms of methodology, my background is in qualitative analysis, although I am increasingly interested in quantitative analysis and in the problems these competing research traditions raise for one another.

Research projects on which I have worked include The Discourse of Reading Groups [http://www.open.ac.uk/dorg/index.shtml] and Devolving Diasporas [http://www.devolvingdiasporas.com/].