Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Research Interests

Main theoretical interests relate to sociology and organisational change with particular reference to occupational change and issues of regional regeneration.

Main substantive research interests relate to:

• Questions of labour organization, forms of social solidarity; individualism and collectivism; trade unionism; labour politics.
• Questions raised by "globalisation", de-industrialisation and post-industrial societies and regions especially issues raised in programmes of "regeneration".
• New forms of business organization: issues raised by innovation studies, new technologies and new spatial patterns of employment, production, logistics and markets.
• Environmental questions and changing patterns of social protest.

Currently completing a number of funded research projects and on-going studies. These include:

• The changing pattern of mine closures on British coal fields - in England and Wales - and the impact of these closures upon coal miners, their wives, partners and children and upon coal mining communities.

This project is funded by the ESRC and examines changing patterns of local dynamics, indicating dramatic ways in which traditional patterns of community relations have altered and continue to change. Please see the link on the bottom of the page for more details.