He previously held a Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship jointly at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and the School of Law at Warwick University. Trained as a political economist with a special interest on innovation/appropriation and technology, he has been working on the agriculture and pharmaceuticals. Much of his recent attention on these sectors is through the prism of intellectual property where he interrogates the globalisation of a particular architecture of law and how this relates to a different conceptions of justice and equity. He is currently working on a monograph on Geographical Indications, that is tentatively titeld, Re-making Place: The Social Construction of Geographical Indications.