His research agenda focuses on gender, sexuality, and interpersonal violence. He conducts research on the organisation of heterosexual men’s social and sexual lives and relations and more widely on gender and sexual relations – their social organisation and meaning, shifts in these, and efforts to change them. A/PROF Flood’s research at present is focused in particular on interpersonal violence and its prevention, particularly with reference to men and masculinities. He has also published on fathering, pornography, anti-feminist men’s groups, homophobia, and related topics. His research draws on both materialist and cultural emphases in social theory, contributes to a critical sociological scholarship concerned with questions of power and injustice, and generates strategies and frameworks for policy reform and social change.