I was appointed Professor in 2014, having been Adjunct Professor at Flinders since March 2013. I am also Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, where I was Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies from October 1991 until December 2013. Previously, I was an Officer in the Education Specialisation of the Royal Navy (1979-1991), and later served as a Reservist (1992-2009) in the Media Operations Specialisation, of which I was Head (1998-2003). I was inter alia Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1989-1991. Recent books include Australia in the Great War (Robert Hale, London, 2015), The Maritime History of Cornwall (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe) ( University of Exeter Press, 2014) , One & All: Labor and the Radical Tradition in South Australia, (Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2016), Emigrants and Historians: Essays in Honour of Eric Richards (ed.) (Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2016), A History of Sussex (Carnegie Publishers, Lancaster, 2017), Cornwall: A History (University of Exeter Press, 2017, new edition), and 'Repat': A Concise History of Repatriation in Australia (Department of Veteran Affairs, Canberra, 2018) Currently, I am writing a second volume for the Department of Veterans' Affairs, entitled More than the Last Shiiling: Repatriation in Australia 1994-2018, to be published in 2019. A new edition of The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall's Great Emigration is to be published in 2019 by University of Exeter Press, as will an edited collection of chapters Cornwall in The Age of Rebellion.

• Australian studies/history,
• Cornish studies/history,
• emigration,
• mining,
• war studies (especially First World War),
• identity/ethnicity/nationalism,
• regions and regionalism,
• biography