His research contributes to, and draws upon, education policy studies, sociology of education, race/ ethnicity, and social and cultural geography. His current research focuses on the relationship between education policy and calculative spaces, and what kind of life is possible within and through these calculative spaces. His recent publications include Education policy, Space and the City: Markets and the (In)visibility of Race (2011),and Policy, Geophilosophy, Education (with T. Webb, 2015).