My research explores the multiple dimensions of cultural politics, in particular people-environment relationships. My research interests are informed by political studies, public policy analysis, history, cultural geography, historical geography, leisure studies and sociology. I work inbetween, through and with these disciplines and fields. I am probably best known for my work on heroes and mountaineering, which emerged from a recently completed PhD thesis which explored British cultures of adventure and heroic masculinities. However, my work has also dealt with the development of the creative industries, culture-led coastal regeneration, lifestyle sport, parkour, canoeing and kayaking, subcultural protest, netnographic method, paternalism, working-class sport, the sporting hero, piracy and property rights, and dogging.