- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2004)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992 to 1996)
- Egyptian language and texts, in particular the nature of the Egyptian language and the range and nature of Egyptian written sources and their interpretation from publication of primary sources to analysis and commentary; subjectivity in Ancient Egypt: the expression of personal experience through written sources in Ancient Egypt and the marking of persons in text through linguistic expression
- (with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Accounts, British Archaeological Reports, 1471 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006)
- (with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical and Medical, British Archaeological Reports International Series, 1209 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004)
- Dating Late XIXth Dynasty Ostraca, Egyptologische Uitgaven, 18 (Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004)
- (with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Letters, British Archaeological Reports International Series, 1083 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002)
- (with W. Manley), How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (London: British Museum Press, 1998)
- Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (from 2007)