William Davies is a Senior Researcher at The Work Foundation. William works in the research team at The Work Foundation on the iSociety programme, which investigates technology in everyday life in the UK. He specialises in social capital and network theory, social software, and the ways in which membership associations can benefit from these, in particular, unions and professional associations. In May 2003, he published an iSociety report, "You Don't Know Me, But...: Social Capital and Social Software exploring uses for the internet in supporting social networks". He was recently the lead contributor to a collection of essays, "The Professionals Choice - The Future of the Built Environment Professions". His current research focuses on the convergence of online communities with physical space, and has been working with Marks Barfield Architects on how social software may support the design goals of their proposed residential project, 'Skyhouse'.