He was a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (2020-2021) Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry, and a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group, and theBritish Council's Outreach Program.
He is an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), a former elected co-Chair of Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and the Social Policy Association (SPA).