In addition, I have long been closely engaged in the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network on Consumption and with networks of social scientists working on food in Norway, France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Finland. I am currently a member of the Executive Committee of the ESA. My current research projects include: programmes for promoting sustainable consumption, especially of food; an ESRC-funded project on changes in drinking habits in the British population (PI Petra Meier, University of Sheffield); conspicuous consumption among the British elite; the development of sociology in the UK; and the nature of sociological explanation. I am a past Chair of the Executive Committee of the British Sociological Association and have recently sat on the Board of Trustees. I was a member of the ESRC Research Grants Board 2007-10 and a member of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 sub-panel for Sociology. I have evaluated sociological research in many countries. I am currently a Co-editor of Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association. I am a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences.