• 📚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

• The Reflexive Imperative and Communicative Reflexivity

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

• The Reflexive Imperative and Autonomous Reflexivity

• Proposal: Quantified Self Research Network

• Guest Post: @TGJBrock Reflects on International Association of Critical Realism 2013

• Books, social media and ‘thinking-through-writing’

• Call for research participants: being single in Britain today

• The Reflexive Imperative and Fractured Reflexivity

• Technology, Not Tenure: The Politics of the Digital Turn in #HigherEd

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

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

• BSA Education Study Group Study Day 17 September

• Making love, making gender, making babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

• The Reflexive Imperative and Meta-Reflexivity

• “So what is it I’m trying to say exactly?”: Iteration and Articulation

• Beyond ‘fateful moments’ and ‘turning points’: a realist approach to biographical research

• ‘Shaking Up’ the Social Sciences

• The Reflexive Imperative, Social Change and the Financial Crisis

• The Reflexive Imperative and Shaping a Life

• The Reflexive Imperative and Relational Reflexivity

• Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought – September 6th @BritSoci Meeting Rooms

• The Reflexive Imperative and Internal Conversation

• What’s a Collective? The Ontology of Groups, Crowds and Crews

• British Sociological Association Youth Study Group: Research Development Workshop for Research Students and Early Career Researchers

• The Politics of Circulation, Human Agency and Building Your Own Information Environment

• The Reflexive Imperative and Social Change

• If only Aneurin Bevan had been around in 2003…

• The Reflexive Imperative and its Relationship to the Morphogenetic Approach

• “Where the fuck do they get their shit from!?”: Reality Television, Austerity Politics and Digital Public Sociology

• Frédéric Vandenberghe on Margaret Archer’s “Morphogenetic Quartet”

• The relationship between debate/discussion/dialogue and self-identity

• The strange world of educational viral marketing

• Structure your procrastination and turn a vice into a virtue

• “Why are there no great British social theorists?”

• A discussion of the craft of giving (bad) presentations needs to consider avoiding slides entirely

• In defence of Jacques Lacan (sort of)

• The spatial politics of Millbank

• Unpicking habitus and reflexivity: a case study of the stressed academic

• CfP Deadline Reminder: 31st July 2013: Queer Femininie Affinities

• Interesting media project exploring #asexuality needs participants

• Enquiring into Wellbeing: Reflections on Culture, Method and Inner Truths

• “I’m having an argument with myself”: memory, identity and agency

• Did you know that “first class tickets are required for first class travel”?

• “So what exactly is this Digital Sociology group going to do then…?”

• Sociologists and anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing

• The Psychopathology of Jacques Lacan or, Why Can’t Theorists Just Say What They Mean!??

• So what the hell is ‘quantitative easing’?

• Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated “Polysyllabic Truisms”

• The lessons of music culture for scholarly communication

• Open research and ‘self-promotion’

• How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy (within the first two weeks)

• “These kids don’t want to carry on. They want to see the whole bloody thing burn”