• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Tradition, Common Sense and The Emotional Burden of Reflexivity

• Online Communities and Digital Research Methods: a cautionary note

• “Why do you find blogging useful as a researcher?”

• Infinite…no you don’t fuck around with the infinite… there’s no way you do that…

• Personal Morphogenesis – modelling the ‘moments’ of biography

• Non-linear creativity

• Social theory and social research – what went wrong?

• Some quick thoughts about sociological realism and digital life

• Between subjectivity and subjection: untangling the confusion about reflexivity

• Digital Technology and Human Being

• Conducting Interdisciplinary Research Workshop

• News from Salford University – please circulate

• Conducting Interdisciplinary Research Workshop

• Anti Manifesto

• Conducting Cross Faculty Collaborative Research Workshop

• Digital Training for University of Warwick ECRs

• Rehabilitating ‘essences’

• The politics of relationality

• An eerily poetic defence of ontology

• “We all know bankers are greedy bastards!” Ideological dimensions to the financial crisis

• CCIG Event: John Holmwood on Markets, Expertise and the Public University, 28 June at the OU

• Upcoming social media training workshops at the University of Warwick

• Postmodernism and the Three ‘Pomo Flips’

• Postdoctoral Funding Workshop

• Relationality and Reflexivity

• Wherefore Art Thou Elvis?

• Continuous Publishing, Open Research and Impact (part 2)

• Continuous Publishing, Open Research and Impact

• Protests against privatisation at Sussex University – Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 – please spread the word!

• Using visual metaphor to explain how stuff works: what theorists can learn from beatboxing?

• Boomboxes and Dictionaries

• Deadline Approaching FWSA 2012 Small Grants Scheme for Postgraduates

• Asexualities: a training day for therapists

• New public engagement website announcement – Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord?

• Gender and Sport seminar, Friday 18th May, University of Warwick

• Podcast – Exploring the Emergence of Underground Musical Worlds

• Isn’t this civilised?

• The Sociology of Animals and Why It Matters – Podcast with Nickie Charles and Bob Carter

• Window on Research: Dave O’Brien on Cultural Consumption in Contemporary Society

• Explanatory Methodology

• Public Sociology In an Age of Austerity – Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood in Dialogue

• Was Aditya Chakrabortty right about Sociology? A work sociologist responds…

• The Transformation of Academic Practice – Interview with Martin Weller, author of the Digital Scholar

• An Introduction to Multi-Author Blogging, May 29th, 12pm to 1pm in @researchex seminar room 2

• The fate of the individual in late capitalism

• Use of web 2.0 tools amongst UK researchers

• The Arrogance of Publishers vs. Academic Culture – Why the Outcome Is Virtually Certain

• Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?

• Studying gender and sexuality psychosocially: Dialogue across perspectives, 15 May 2012

• Fast, cheap and out of control

• I can’t sleep because of my endless coughing so I’ll play with Worldle instead…

• John Holmwood gets a spontaneous round of applause while talking about the future of #sociology at #britsoc12 during the @cwrightmills event