• 📚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

• 2012 in review

• Why do people believe what they believe? Getting beyond the idea there’s something wrong with people who disagree with us

• Ethics and Social Theory: The Work of Andrew Sayer

• Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?

• Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?

• Qualitative360 Europe, April 17-18 2013 Berlin – Call for Abstracts – Deadline coming up soon!

• Doing research inclusively, doing research well, 7-8 Feb, Southampton

• How safe are European children online? An interview with Leslie Haddon from the EU Kids Online project

• What does the future hold for ethnography? An interview with Alex Smith

• The ‘prestige’ of journals in a social media age

• BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event Thursday 13th December 2012

• Seminar, 5th December – Learning, team-working and co-creation of knowledge: Two case studies

• The Public Understanding of Science is a Political Issue: an interview with @AlexTTSmith

• Nordic Youth Research Symposium

• My favourite Zygmunt Bauman quote

• Race, Migration, Citizenship: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives

• Thinking the present with Max Weber: The University, the Scholar and the Student

• Encounters, Morgan Centre Interdisciplinary Conference, 3-4 July 2013, University of Manchester – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

• Reminder: Deadline approaching for Queer London Conference cfp

• Queer Homes, Queer Families: a history and policy debate at the British Library Conference Centre

• Calling BSA members: we’re trying to start a Digital Sociology study group and we need your support

• Hypoactive Skydiving Disorder

• Researching Families and Relationships: innovations in methods, theory and policy relevance 10th – 12th June 2013

• CfP: Queer Senses: A One-Day Symposium at Royal Holloway, 26 Mar 2013

• The Sociology Teacher: the Journal of the BSA Teaching Group

• Interrogating “the Social Unconscious” – 25th January

• Romney’s musical friends vs Obama’s musical friends

• Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology

• Call for Papers to 12th Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS 12)

• Online Networking for Researchers

• NVivo for Mac looks SO good!

• Pretty much everything you need to get started on social media as an academic contained within…

• Tweets and the Streets: an interview with Paolo Gerbaudo about social media and contemporary activism

• Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers

• A Jubilee of a Different Kind: Celebrating Diane Abbott’s 25 years as an MP

• An interview I did about asexuality

• CfP BSA Theory Group biennial conference

• BSA Regional Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Event: ‘Ways to Enhance Your CV’

• Early Career Theorists’ Symposium call for abstracts

• FREE Software Planning Seminar, 9th November, Birmingham University

• Nefarious – merchant of souls Wednesday 7 November

• FWSA 2013 Conf: Mapping Feminist Movement, Moments and Mobilisations

• Wikipedia for Researchers – Free Workshops at the British Library

• “You ask for what one should be keyed up?”

• Free Agent Nation OR what precarity looks like for the winners

• Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov

• The simplest (and most effective?) campaign ad ever

• Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov

• BSA Presidential Event: Understanding the financial crisis: sociology, political economy and heterodox economics

• New Seminar from CRFR: Disclosing the trauma of child sexual abuse: a gender analysis

• Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov

• Furthering Equality in International HE – a seminar