His research focuses on the changes and continuities in contemporary transitions from youth to young adulthood, and on the changing nature of young masculinities and the attendant implications for social inequality. He is co-editor of the BSA/Sage journal Sociological Research Online, an associate editor of Journal of Youth Studies, and a member the international editorial board of Men and Masculinities. His latest books are “Young Working-Class Men in Transition” (Routledge, 2018); “Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism (co-edited with C. Walker, Palgrave, 2018) and “Youth and Social Class: Enduring Inequality in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand” (with A. France, Springer, 2017).