Ben is currently co-supervising three doctoral researchers:

Nicholas Sharma, Life trajectories and experiences of migrant care workers in London.

Kelly Thomas, Between the fields and the city: civic rites, resistance and urban transformations in the historical New Town.

Asma Hussain, Decolonial world-making in Luton: how Muslim women in Luton make and inhabit multiple worlds through creativity, ESRC-funded.

He has supervised/co-supervised eighteen doctoral researchers through to successful completion:

Emilia Melossi, Black labour: African migrant networks and agricultural work in the south of Italy, 2025, ESRC-funded.

Saskia Papadakis, Northerners in London: Englishness, place and mobility, 2022, ESRC-funded (registered at Royal Holloway, University of London).

Debbie Samaniego, Rethinking migration through the colonial question: connecting colonial histories to understand mobility and belonging in Abya Yala, 2022. Marshall Scholarship.

Mimi McGann, 'I do it because I’m English... but thank f*** for my Danish dad!’: Brexit, the British Empire and ‘doing the boundary’ in the modern English village, 2022. ESRC-funded.

Julius Baker, A twenty-first century mapping of race and suburbia in Epsom, north-east Surrey, 2021. ESRC-funded. https://suburbanlivesofmulticulture.com/

Suryamayi Clarence-Smith, Towards a Spiritualised Society: Auroville, An Experiment in Prefigurative Utopianism, 2019.

Etienne Joseph, Living the Archive: Race, Music & Place at the Africa Centre (1960-2000), 2019. Collaborative funding from Africa Centre and University of Sussex.

Amy Clarke, National Lives, Local Voices: Boundaries, Hierarchies and Possibilities of Belonging, 2018. ESRC-funded. http://nationalliveslocalvoices.wordpress.com/

Alexa Neale, Capital Domicide: Home and Murder in the Mid-Twentieth Century Metropolis, 2016. AHRC-funded.

Annika Wetlesen, Local Labour Regimes and the Agency of Construction Workers in Chennai, South India, 2017 (as external supervisor for the University of Oslo).

Debbie Humphry, Moving On? A Class Analysis of Social Mobility in an Inner London Locality, 2014. ESRC-funded. http://www.debbiehumphry.com/moving-on.html

Sally Daly, Pick, Pack, Sell: Producing Horticulture in 21st Century Ireland, 2012 (as external supervisor for the Dublin Institute of Technology).

Donna Simpson, Salads, Sweat and Status: Migrant Workers in UK Horticulture, 2011 (ESRC CASE Studentship in collaboration with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and Migrants' Rights Network). Thesis available at http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/7601/1/(2012.12.01)_Simpson%2C_Donna.pdf

Deeptima Massey, Experiencing Staying Behind: A Study of Women's Lives During the Temporary Absence of Migrant Men in Rural West Bengal, India, 2008 (Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty bursary).

Daniel Coppard, Surface Tension: Water and Agrarian Change in a Rainfed Village, West Bengal, India, 2005 (ESRC studentship).

Primitivo Viray, A Study of the Impact of the Tibod Microcredit Organisation in Gingoog, Philippines, 2003.

Nitya Rao, Standing One's Ground: Gender, Land and Livelihoods in the Santal Parganas, Jharkhand, India, 2002 (University of East Anglia studentship).

Valerie Roberts, Building Social Capital Through Microcredit: The Impact of a Rural Credit Programme on Borrowers, 2002.