His research interests lie in understanding the mechanisms that are important for the degradation of materials used in both aerospace and nuclear sectors. With a particular emphasis on using state-of-the-art characterisation tools to investigate microstructural changes, phase transformation and residual stress evolution during production and in-service. He is an active user of large-scale research facilities such as the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, BESSY II in Berlin and Diamond and ISIS in Oxfordshire, UK.

The analysis of residual stresses is of particular interest, making use of non-destructive diffraction based techniques as well as relaxation based methods. He is currenlty involved joint project between University of Manchester and Open University seeking to to further develop the novel residual stress measurement technique known as the Contour Method.