Currently, my work focuses on the themes of 1) violence, martial culture, and their impacts on social and political organisation, 2) captivity, slavery, and social inequality, and 3) migration, conflict, and coalescence in cross-cultural and transnational settings. These are explored and articulated primarily through discussions of Late Iron Age society, but with substantial reference to broader, global archaeologies of migration, slavery, conflict, and state formation across and outside of the broader cultural sphere of the so-called ‘Viking diaspora.’

My work is underpinned by an interdisciplinary approach that situates discussions of material culture within wider frameworks. In recent years, a key component of my research strategy has been to utilise theory and data from a range of fields including anthropology, psychology, sociology, geography, and the cognitive science of religion as a means of developing novel approaches to longstanding historical questions. I also make regular use of cross-cultural and comparative frameworks, drawing on archaeological and historical case studies dating from prehistory to the early modern period.

I participate in a range of dissemination activities. These have included participation in public lecture programmes, working as a consultant for television, film, and music projects, and appearing in podcasts and TV documentary series. I currently work with and as a consultant for the Grimfrost Hird historical reenactment group.