[1] Before taking up an academic post he worked for several years in the ICT industry in the UK as a programmer and business analyst both in the public and private sectors.

His inter-disciplinary interests began with this PhD thesis which considered the application of computing in ethnography.

His most recent programme of work involves considering the fundamental nature of informatics in terms of the intersection of signs and systems.

[3] More recently he has been developing a new design theory for business analysis which is theory-driven but practical in application.

A book exploring the constitutive nature of data within society has recently been published.