I started my academic career lecturing at the Universities of Birmingham and Bath, UK. My main publications are Education Policy and Realist Social Theory (Routledge) and, co-authored with Professor Martin Thrupp, Education Management in Managerialist Times: Beyond the Textual Apologists (Open University Press).
My current research interests include psychosocial studies, social ontology (especially structure and agency), Bhaskar's MetaReality, and philosophy of psychology.