My research investigates the social practices of organizations and (financial) markets, with a particular emphasis on exploring strategizing practices in complex, often paradoxical, settings. My research projects include studies of the New Zealand Science Sector, the reinsurance industry, and public-private collaborations aimed at addressing the grand challenge of global insurance protection gaps. I am also an expert in qualitative methods, with a focus on issues such as global ethnography, studying paradoxes, and presenting persuasive ethnographic findings. 

My research has been published in top-tier management journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Long Range Planning, and Strategic Organization. I also serve as an Editorial Review Board Member for Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Research Methods and Organizational Studies. I am an Associate Editor for the forthcoming Special Issue in Organization Studies on "The Future of Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Studies" and an incoming Editor at Strategic Organization. 

Based on a long-term qualitative programme of research into the global (re)insurance industry, I have expertise in financial markets and the various practices, including competitive dynamics, through which they are constructed (see my research monograph Making a Market for Acts of God, Oxford University Press). You can hear me discussing this research project on the BBC.

Globally, natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, but access to disaster insurance is increasingly unavailable or unaffordable for many. Building on my above research into reinsurance, I am engaged in an ongoing programme of research focused on the public-private mechanisms that are increasingly used as a solution to address this disaster insurance protection gap. My book (published July 2023) "Disaster Insurance Reimagined" (Oxford University Press) explores why these Protection Gap Entities (PGEs) that provide insurance protection that would otherwise be unavailable are established, how they evolve, their future role is in protection from increasing risk, and the paradoxical tensions involved in this complex problem.