- 2022: Reader, Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool
- 2017: Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool
- 2011: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool
- 2008: Doctoral research – AHRC/ESRC Impact Fellowship in Cultural Policy & Regeneration
- 2006: Impacts 08 Research Programme Assistant