• 📚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 Sociology of Intellectual Faddishness or, Why it’s unfair to blame everything on Foucault

• Public Scholarship and Working With The Media

• Spatio-temporality and Social Structure: Or, what Realists can learn from Goffman

• The surreal position of ‘trade unions’ within contemporary political discourse

• Alienated and alienating writing (by alienated and alienating social scientists)

• Pahnl’s miniature world

• CfP: Making Trans Count

• The growth of ‘marcomms’ and the transformation of higher education

• The Great University Gamble

• The shifting language of research ‘participation’

• BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought

• The 2014 ISRF Essay Competition – Theory of Social Behaviour

• Digital / Moving Image and Networked Performance: on Cultural Transformations

• Race Critical Public Scholarship – pursuing justice in austere times, UEL, 17th July, 10.30-5.30

• Critical Realism: Problems and Prospects

• The growth of advertising and the political economy of dissatisfaction

• “But isn’t that what the psychologists do?”: the dangers of disciplinary boundary work

• The ‘Liquid Narrative’ of Spring Breakers

• Two potential directions for para-academic digital scholarship

• Baking an idea in the unconscious mind

• The AHRC’s Collaborative Skills Development call

• Call for papers: ‘Getting Social Research into Policy & Practice’

• Why are conspiracy theories popular?

• The Empty ‘Posturing’ of Žižek and Lacan?

• Caught Between Zombies and Chavs? The aesthetics of the crowd in an age of austerity

• The ALEC Rock

• Rethinking the vision of sociology one might want to argue for

• RIP James Gandolfini

• CfP: Gender violence and virtual worlds: brave new world(s) of regulation?

• “They were stalking the corridors, the lecture rooms, the offices…”: open research, ethics and impact

• CfP: The Sociological Craft Project

• Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick Competition for 3 PhD Studentships

• Some reflections on editing books and special issues while doing a PhD

• Quantified Self and Philosophical Anthropology

• 3 tips for managing institutional, project and group twitter feeds in #HigherEd

• Art, research and sociology’s promiscuity

• Conference: Recognising Diversity? Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice

• Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications

• Do iPods block out internal conversation?

• The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist #2

• Downfall – NSA’s Prism revealed to dear leader

• Calculative Devices in the Digital Age: a call for papers

• Tacitly assuming that research participants exist in an environment insulated from research

• The role of universities in social mobility

• The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist

• Seeing scholarly publishing with fresh eyes

• An interview with David Jay: Why Asexuality Matters For The Future of Sexual Culture

• Some thoughts about the sociology of sociological theory

• Biographical approaches to studying subcultural social worlds

• Rethinking the craft of social research

• The emergence of sociological media? Is social media becoming mainstream within UK sociology?

• In defence of the book