He is interested in identities associated with group membership (particularly national and religious identities). One strand of his research concerns the social construction of such social identities, especially the ways in which they are argued over so as to organise different forms of collective behaviour. Another strand concerns the experience of minority group members and how the attitudes and behaviours of majority group members impact upon minority group members' abilities to act in terms of their own understandings of their social identities. A third strand concerns the social processes that make co-ordinated group behaviour possible. For further information about this event: