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In 2008, I am lecturing in two courses at the Australian National University: one on social inequality in comparative perspective and another on statistics for social scientists.

My main research interests lie in the areas of comparative political economy, social stratification, income inequality, time use, living standards, and social research methods.

For the past few years, these interests have found concrete expression largely by way of two principal projects. The first of these is a book - Discretionary Time: A New Measure Of Freedom - recently published by Cambridge University Press (with Robert E Goodin, Antti Parpo, and Lina Eriksson). The second is my doctoral thesis on the dynamics of income inequality in seven capitalist societies, which I am completing as part of a Doctor Of Philosophy degree in the Australian Demographic And Social Research Institute at the Australian National University. Apart from these two principal projects, I am also working on a range of smaller projects concerned with the allocation of income and time in capitalist societies.

In my spare time, I am one of the convenors of The Australian Sociological Association Thematic Group On Social Stratification.

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