At Bristol, Carver organised and taught various undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including Contemporary Feminist Thought, Postmodern Political Theory, and Gender, Masculinities and International Relations, as well as methodological seminars in Discourse and Visual Analysis and supervisions and examinations for numerous PhD students.

[5] Besides doing his own translations of Marx's Later Political Writings (1996) for Cambridge University Press, Carver investigated the exact roles played by Engels in the composition of the Marxian canon and in the interpretative tradition that now surrounds it.

In addition, Carver has offered commentary on the presence of Marxisms in non-academic arenas, analysing Grimes' relationship with The Communist Manifesto,[8] and the fictionalisations of Engels.

[9] Carver also served for a term on the Redaktionskommission for the Marx-Engels-Gesamtusgabe headquartered in Berlin where he figured in the controversies of the 1990s concerning Engels’s role as editor of the three volumes of Marx’s Das Kapital.

[10] Carver has gained academic notoriety for his employment of feminist and men's studies perspectives on masculinities, contributing to political theory and International Relations.

Much of Carver’s theorisations on gender, sex and sexuality are influenced by the work of post-structural feminist thinkers, such as Judith Butler, Donna Haraway and Stevi Jackson.

[12] In navigating their discursive readings of gender, Carver critically analyses the masculinist, universalising narratives that construct and maintain the oppression of women.

[13] In turn, Carver's contributions to gender, sex and sexuality studies have influenced notable feminist scholars, including Cynthia Enloe, Laura Shepherd, Catherine Eschle, and Sarah Childs.

He was also elected for two terms on the executive committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), serving as vice-president for Europe, and was appointed Program Co-chair for the World Congress in Brisbane in 2018.

Contrary to this reception, Carver reveals how Marx can by no means be assumed to have shared Engels's views on natural and social history, or on dialectics as a scientific method.

Carver asks the reader to imagine Engels’s motivations and intent in his earliest works, long undervalued and dismissed as juvenilia, without teleological reference to his subsequent association with Marx.

[25] For this, Carver has received widespread notoriety for redressesing major erroneous assumptions within feminist thought that has led to an underdevelopment of the gendered perspective of men.