She has particular expertise in sociology of quantification (sociology of statistics and sociology of accounting). Her research focuses on the social construction of statistical (and accounting) measurements and on the social uses of quantitative information. She was a visiting academic at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, at the Department of Politics and International Relations of Oxford University, at St Antony’s College and Wolfson College, Oxford. She has been teaching statistics and demography with a perspective of sociology of quantification for over twenty years.