• 📚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

• BSA Theory – Early Career Theorists’ Symposium, Apr 2013, London

• The Greatest Debate of the Decade – Christopher Hitchens vs. George Galloway

• Call for papers: (Im)personal desires: pornography, sexuality and social networks of desire

• SPECIAL ISSUE of Gender and Language on Gender, language, communication and the media

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

• By far the best explanation of cultural realism I have ever encountered

• SOLIDARITY BUT NOT SIMILARITY? LGBT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

• An early review of the Sociological Imagination (“Imagine a burly cowpuncher on the long, slow ride from the Panhandle of Texas to Columbia University”)

• Interview: Les Back on the 2011 riots in the UK

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

• Gender Sex & Power: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equalities: Surviving Austerity – Free workshop

• Psyche in the habitus? Last chance to book!

• Call for Abstracts: Special Section on Happiness Research in Sociological Research Online 2013

• CfP: Centre for the Study of Women and Gender @SocioWarwick Seminar Series 2012/2013

• Why it’s a mistake to surrender learning to psychology…

• BSA TEACHING GROUP Inaugural Conference

• Why have other VCs not been making the case for UK higher education in the media over the last two years?

• Call for Papers: Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology Showcase Event

• Paul Ryan: Rape Is Just Another ‘Method Of Conception’

• Asexual Perceptions of Allosexuals (or why naming people is the first step to stereotyping them…)

• Why the ethics of researching Twitter and Discussion Forum users are so different…

• The Sexual Assumption In Action

• Realism and Human Experience

• The crisis of empirical sociology: against defeatism and rethinking the public role of the qualitative researcher

• First they mashed up the book, then they massacred its author: reply to Ewan Morrison

• Why sexual people don’t get asexuality and why it matters

• Social Change and Reflexive Guidance

• Shit People Say to Asexuals

• The Caterpillar’s Question: Cultural Resources and Identity

• Reflexivity and ‘drift’

• Human nature and social change

• Catnets: my new favourite concept (and not *just* because of the name)

• Internal conversations and natural language use / question for qualitative researchers

• Morphogenetic personalism

• A Realist Approach to Semiotics

• What critical realists mean when they go on about the ‘real’, the ‘actual’ and the ’empirical’…

• Social Theory and Fragmentation

• What is an organisation?

• Emotions and Reflexivity

• “What on earth will I tweet about?”: feeling comfortable with social media as an academic

• Social media and the Impact Agenda – what do you need to know?

• Youth Prospects in Late Capitalism

• How to make sense of longitudinal qualitative data

• Podcast: Foucault, Biopolitics and Critique

• “What are the challenges involved in using social media in teaching?”

• “Should I be conscious of the language I use on Twitter?”

• What comes after Evernote? @robertotoole talks about the Personal Research Environment

• “Ultimately, if I’m honest, I do it because it’s fun”: @elebelfiore on using social media as an academic

• Why should academics embrace digital tools? @cemathieson talks about her experiences

• Killer Bees

• A quick thought about Jiscmail…