[2] He has directed approximately 40 Economic and Social Research Council projects, published over 30 books and 300 articles, and chaired the British Academy's 'New Paradigms in Public Policy' programme in 2010–11.
He recognised the value of cross-national work in analysing change in public policy and pursued this by leading a series of collaborative European research projects financed by ESRC and the EU.
[15] His work has attracted particular attention in East Asia, leading to a number of official invitations to Korea and Japan, as a Distinguished Visitor to the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and association with the Risk Research Centre at Beijing Normal University.
[16] He is recognised as an influential contributor to current debates about welfare state reform in the recovery from the economic crisis in the UK[17][18][19] and has been invited to speak at the British Academy[20] and at more than 60 international conferences.
Peter is seeking to present social science ideas to a wider audience through his novels 'The Baby Auction' (The Conrad Press, 2016) [23] and 'Ardent Justice' (Troubador 2017).