Currently engaged in research on ethnic policy-making and ethnic conflict in contemporary China with a particular focus on the restive Western frontier and its Tibetan and Uyghur ethnic minorities. Chief Investigator on an Australia Research Council funded project entitled "Urbanising Western China: Nation-building and Social Mobilisation on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier" (DP180101651)
目前从事当代中国民族政策制定与民族冲突相关研究，重点关注局势动荡的西部边疆地区及其藏族、维吾尔族少数民族群体。同时担任澳大利亚研究委员会资助项目《中国西部城镇化：汉藏边疆的国家建设与社会动员》（项目编号DP180101651）的首席研究员。