I am interested in a wide range of topics which can be, very roughly,  grouped into the following two intertwined axes: 

Material Meso-Level:

• residential segregation and neighbourhood inequality;

• role of education in reducing the role of parental background;

• gender effects within the family;

• spatial inequality and segregation;

• environmental and climate inequality;

• the role of social housing in advanced economies;

• the difference between monocentric and polycentric cities in terms of inequality of opportunities;

• socio-economic spatial gradients in life-satisfaction, happiness and wellbeing;

 

Immaterial Meso-Level:

• normative role of culture;

• work ethic;

• social cohesion and civic participation;

• culture and gender;

• intergenerational transmission of values;

• industrial nostalgia;.

• post-work immaginaries;;

• social policy innovations in mature economies (UK, Austria, France) and in developing countries (South Africa, Zimbawe and Ghana);

• role of automation.