embodiment and the construction of identity in virtual realities;
religion;
biotechnology and bioethics;
social movements;
football;
‘Q2’ mixed methods of researching poverty in sub-Saharan Africa;
emotion, social roles, normative change and family life;
state ‘punitiveness’ or harshness (particularly new ways of conceptualising and measuring this and cross-disciplinary perspectives on the issue);
experiential knowledge and participatory research.