On completing his Doctorate, he worked in the faculty of Social Sciences at Stirling for 9-months, researching for a Government-funded project on organised crime in Scotland. In 2017, he was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher in Oral History at the new Oral History Collective at Newcastle University, before returning to Stirling in 2024.

His research interests are varied, but oral history is the overarching thread linking them together. He is interested in the impacts and legacies of deindustrialisation, most recently on the ways in which these influence later life experiences. His first monograph considered the response of female workers to industrial closure, engaging with literature from history, deindustrialisation studies, memory studies, and industrial relations. He led a cross-disciplinary project analysing the experiences of first responders to the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 Disaster in 1988. He is currently working on publications from two large projects related to these topics.