About me

I am Full Professor in Sociology, specializing in culture, consumption, environment, sustainability and inequality. I currently serve as Vice President for Global Engagement at the university. I am honorary Reader at the University of Manchester and Docent at the University of Turku. Between 2017-2023 I served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Poetics.

NEW: Towards a social turn in cultural policy

NEW: Culture and the future sustainability of Israeli society

Recent funded projects:

• Equitable resilience to heat: Modeling the consequences of community coordination and heat policy in two coastal cities (with Asaf Levanon, Maya Negev, Moira Zellner, Laura Kuhl, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation 2023-2026);

• European inventory of societal values of culture as a basis for inclusive cultural policies in the globalizing world https://inventculture.eu/ (with a consortium of 9 countries, Horizon 2020 2020-2023);

• Environmental sustainability in immigrant households https://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/environmental-sustainability/ (with Sherilyn MacGregor and Catherine Walker, The Leverhulme Trust 2021-2024);

• The effects of culture and religion on food waste behavior in households (with Ofira Ayalon and Keren Kaplan-Mintz, Israel Science Foundation 2020-2023).

Please see more details under RESEARCH. 

A quick glance at recent research:

Household sustainability in Manchester

Smart cities and creativity symposium 

Panel discussion on intersecting crises and sustainability (in Hebrew, min. 24:30) 

Cultural participation in Spain

The profile of visitors at cultural sites in Europe