• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚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

• CfP: Young People, Precarious Work and Trade Unionism

• CfP: Kate Millett Conference

• Did U2 ruin the Mandela film for anyone else?

• Shostakovich: Symphony #3 In E Flat Major, Op.20 ‘The First Of May’ – To Verses by Semion Kirsanov

• Are some disciplines more sociable than others? (CC @CreatingPublics)

• Is speculative realism just critical realism without the sociology of (social) science?

• Call for Papers: Futures in Question conference

• International Symposium on Wearable Computers

• Social Media in Social Research – call for papers

• The Backlash Moral Panic Film Club

• Enduring love? – Warwick, Jan. 29

• CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

• CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th

• Creative Citizens Call for Papers

• Launch of ‘SexGen Northern Network’ and seminar on Compulsory Sexualities

• The Family, Sexuality, and Human Rights in Global Perspective, 23rd Jan, Glasgow

• Open Panel: Quantifying Affect and Emotion, Past and Present

• Rorty, Realism and the Idea of Freedom

• CfP: Diffusion of Ideas

• IACR Annual Conference 2014

• The pseudo-problem of incommensurability

• Roy Bhaskar on the Fetishisation of Facts

• Call for papers – Social media in social research

• Reminder & Call for Posters, CAQD, Berlin, March 6-7, 2014

• Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity Network

• Laddism and Higher Education

• ‘It’s not immaterial’ – Materiality at work

• Researching Human Fatigue in the Workplace Network

• CfP: ‘Where Now for Social Justice?’

• Constructing Sexual Subjects – The CSWG Graduate Seminar Series @SocioWarwick

• CFP: “Inclusionary Youth Geographies: Changes, Challenges and Responsibilities”, IGU Krakow 2014

• SIID 5th Annual Postgraduate Conference: 2nd Call for Papers

• Popular Education Network Conference 2014 – Malta

• Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity

• Call for Papers -1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media – Where Are We Now? [Reopened due to relocation]

• First “Critsex in the Midlands” event – 14 February 2014 – “Rethinking Foucault”

• CFP: Homophobia Rewritten

• The Fall – Way Round

• CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th @SocioWarwick

• Videogames and human excellence

• Noam Chomsky on The Purpose of Education

• At what point do addictive games become sinister?

• CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

• CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th @SocioWarwick

• Deadline TODAY – CfP: An Invitation to Digital Public Sociology

• The most popular posts on my blog in 2013

• The TEDification of #HigherEd? Negotiating between the accessibly simple and the simplistically accessible

• Towards a realist sociology of everyday life

• The coming war on charity?

• The Messiness of Intellectual Biography

• This Is Water

• The fascinating banality of business bullshit