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I am a sociologist at the Australian Demographic And Social Research Institute at the Australian National University. 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 research 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 - published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press (with Robert E Goodin, Antti Parpo, and Lina Eriksson). The International Social Science Council recently awarded this book the 2009 Stein Rokkan Prize For Comparative Social Science Research.

The second of these projects is a doctoral thesis on the dynamics of income inequality in seven capitalist societies, which I am completing as part of a Doctor Of Philosophy degree at 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.

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