• 📚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

• UK Riots: Sociological Perspectives and Civic Responses

• My PhD in 60 seconds (video to follow soon!)

• Becoming Who We Are

• Missed Opportunities

• What’s the point of edited books? A step-by-step proposal for social media alternative

• Asexual Practices and Identities: Negotiating the Sexual Imperative

• BSA Annual Conference 2012: Sociology in an Age of Austerity

• Stuck between modernity and postmodernity? The modern history of Coventry

• The Blurring Boundaries Between CIA and NYPD – Modernization and Liberty

• The concept of ‘prestige’ in the emerging 21st century communicative ecology

• There was an old woman…

• One Term Tories! The end is nigh for the Cameroons?

• Doorstep rubbish collections scrapped after 130 years – a sign of things to come

• Research Help! Answer this quick entirely unscientific question for me? Please :)

• Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup – God’s Away On Business – YouTube

• England’s riots shouldn’t be blamed on ‘moral decline’, says Tony Blair | UK news | The Observer

• Chavs, Feral Youth, Moral Panics, #UKRiots

• There’s more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community

• C Wright Mills on the Intellectual’s Responsibility

• Social Media and Academic Publishing

• #UKRiots and Sociology

• #UKRiots and Sociological Imagination

• Informed Commentary from Daily Telegraph Readers on Last Night’s Riot

• Liberating Ourselves from the Filter Bubble

• Transcript of an interview I did with AsexualNews.Com

• GTD and Reflexivity #2 – Reflexive Technology & Teleology

• The Sociology of Productivity

• Getting Things Done & Reflexivity

• The Financialization of Life Itself

• Creating Publics Workshop 21 & 22 July 2011

• Relationality, Social Media, Dissent and Protest

• A Realist Theory of A/Sexual Categories

• Want to get involved with sociological imagination.org?

• Mark Fisher on Communications and Late Capitalism

• Call for Papers: what does the Sociological Imagination mean today?

• Please copy and paste this into your status for 24 hours to show your support for the strike against the UK government’s latest attack against public sector workers.

• If you’re going to talk about subjectification you need a theory of the subject…

• Angry Young Academics: The “Directors’ Cut”

• The Impact Agenda in the Arts and Humanities

• The university in the sky and the university between the cracks? Using social media to liberate networks, defend academic values and transform higher education

• Some new podcasts

• A couple of new podcasts

• Think Tank Watch

• Think Tank Watch

• Making a case for social science

• Marriage

• Dave Elder-Vass on Normativity

• Domain Analysis (draft #2)

• Domain Analysis (draft #1)

• The self to itself

• Why I like blogs

• Two new podcasts