• University of Manchester Research Student ; Research Assistant; Research Associate; Research Fellow; 1965-1972
• Swansea University.  Lecturer In Social Anthropology 1972 -2001       

Visiting Appointments 

• International Visiting Fellow, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba,
  Israel.
• British Academy Exchange Fellow with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Erasmus Lecturer at the Freie Universitat Berlin
• Visiting Professor Budapest University of Economics, Department of Sociology
• Visiting Professor Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Department of Jewish Studies and Department of Cultural Anthropology
• Marie Curie Visiting Professor in Social Anthropology, University of Pecs 2006-

Fieldwork and Research

• The Jewish community of St. John’s Newfoundland, 10 weeks
  fieldwork for undergraduate dissertation. University of Edinburgh, 1964.
• Co-operative farmers in Israel for doctoral thesis, University of Manchester, 1967-1968.
•  Israeli portworkers, 1970-1971. 1977
• The history and anthropology of Swansea’s Jewish community 1984-
• The Reconstruction of Ethnic and Religious Identity among Jews in Post-Communist Hungary 1996-1998. 
• Return Migrants to Hungary. 2001

Selected and Recent Publications

• The Village and the State: Administration, Ethnicity and Politics
  in an Israeli Co-operative Village, Gower, London. 1980, pp.216.
• Social Theory: A Basic Tool Kit. co-authored with John Parker, Paul Ransome and Hilary Stanworth. Palgrave. London. 2003. pp.239.
• What was Onan’s Crime ?”  Comparative Studies in Society and History,
  1984, Vol 26, No. 3, pp. 429- 439.
•  “ The Ministry of the Reverend Simon Fyne in Swansea, 1899-1906" in
  Ursula R. Q. Henriques (ed)  The Jews of South Wales: Historical Studies,
  University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1993, pp 111-130
• “Celebrating diverse identities: person, work and place in South Wales” in Alan Rew and John Campbell (eds) Identity and Affect: Explorations of the Experiences of Identity in a Globalizing World Pluto, London, 1999, pp.251-274
•  “Discontinuity, Tradition and Innovation: Anthropological Reflections on Jewish
  Jewish in Contemporary Hungary “. Social Compass 1999, vol 46. No. 1. pp. 21-33.
• “Cultural Aid and Jewish Identity in Post-Communist Hungary Journal of Contemporary Religion 2000, Vol. 15. No.1, pp.   85-96
• “Anthropological Methods of Studying Jewish Identity in Hungary and Wales” in
  Ethnologia Polona, Poznan. 2000. Vol 21 pp. 53-64.
• “Is there a Religious Revival Among Hungarian Jews Today?” Journal of Contemporary Religion 2001, Vol. 16. no. 2. pp. 227-238
• “ Anne Ranasinghe: The Social Identity of a German-born, English-educated, Sri Lankan, Jewish Poet”. Synthesis.  Romanian Academy, Bucharest. 2001-2002. Vol. 27-28.  pp.133-154 (Published September 2002.)
•  “Coming Out: Jewish Identity in Contemporary Hungary”, Acta Ethnographica Hungarica  2003  Vol. 48.(1-2) pp. 35-48
• “Anthropological Reflections on Widowhood”. Synthesis. Romanian Academy, Bucharest. (2008 forthcoming).

Reviews for the following Journals :

American Ethnologist; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; Jewish Journal of Sociology; Sociological Review; Journal of Contemporary Religion; Mentalities; Times Higher Education Supplement. Synthesis