A first theme is the intersection between environmental history and urban studies.
Current research includes interdisciplinary investigations into water, disease and urban space.
A second theme is the impact of the postmodernity debate on philosophical developments in the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. This has involved an exploration of contemporary debates surrounding the relationships between science and society. A research focus has been on the epistemology of environmental research and the complexities of interdisciplinary analytical frameworks. Publications include papers in Progress in Human Geography and Philosophy and Geography. A third theme concerns the depiction of nature and landscape in the visual arts.