• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• Becoming Who We Are: Social Relations and Personal Morphogenesis

• Manufacturing Consent in an Age of Austerity: Bashar al-Assad the “naughty child”

• ‘Theory’ is what happens when common starting-points can no longer be taken for granted

• The disturbing experience of finding yourself emphatically agreeing with Peter Hitchens

• Howard Becker, Blogging and Phenomenology

• Spring Breakers, Late Capitalism and Nihilism

• Being Human and What Matters To Us

• Why academic podcasts are much more valuable than people realise

• Not scheduling my academic life at all – reply to @raulpacheco

• “For the women of the world, kill terrorists”

• Austerity Chic and Class Politics

• CfP: Hard Times – Austerity and Popular Culture

• Normativity, Social Science and Secularism: Reply to @rightscholar

• 17 reasons why you should blog about your research

• The strange passions of ex-leftists

• EduWiki Conference 2013 – Call for proposals

• Being Human and Transvaluation (part 1)

• The books I’m currently reading (#1)

• What’s the point of ontology? Outline of an approach to the sociology of social theory

• “Oh ‘INTP’. So that’s what I am”: Identity and Alterity in a Digital Age

• Being Human, Emotionality and Everyday Life

• The Last Outing project

• Youth Researcher Development Workshop

• Being Human and Social Normativity

• Floating Cities, Class War and Matt Damon: what more could you want?

• ‘Negative Solidarity’ and the Cameroon Concept of Fairness

• Being Human: Natural, practical and social affectivity

• Conceptualising biographical events

• BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought- 6th Sept

• “What was Visual Sociology?”: specialisation and fragmentation within disciplines

• Emotions as commentaries on human concerns

• Being Stuck Between Public Sociology and Public Engagement

• Human Beings, Social Agents and Social Actors

• Researching Affect and Psychosocial Studies

• CFP Beyond Binaries: Exploring the Psychosocial (A Postgraduate Conference at the University of East London, UK)

• BSA Gender Study Group CfP Gender and Quality of Life

• ‘The Priority of Practice’: Human Embodiment and Learning From Nature

• Workshop – Alterity, Intersubjectivity, Ethics, 30 September 2013

• The Practice of Spectating

• The (un)intelligibility of academics and being ‘a mere journalist’

• The constitution of social movements: biography, relations and collectives

• CfP: Quantified Self and Self-Tracking

• BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought- 6th Sept

• Taking the ‘inner eye’ out of introspection

• Howard Becker’s 23 Thoughts About Youth

• #HigherEd and the ‘Consumerization of IT’

• Economists and the Politics of Austerity

• The Genesis of Value

• The Beginner’s Guide to Multi-Author Blogging [v1.0]

• The Reflexive Imperative and Habit(us)

• “Oh there are other people just like me? I’m not so weird after all”: the internet, social change and social integration

• The Reflexive Imperative, Social Change and Cybernetics