• 📣 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

• In defence of Jacques Lacan (sort of)

• The spatial politics of Millbank

• Unpicking habitus and reflexivity: a case study of the stressed academic

• CfP Deadline Reminder: 31st July 2013: Queer Femininie Affinities

• Interesting media project exploring #asexuality needs participants

• Enquiring into Wellbeing: Reflections on Culture, Method and Inner Truths

• “I’m having an argument with myself”: memory, identity and agency

• Did you know that “first class tickets are required for first class travel”?

• “So what exactly is this Digital Sociology group going to do then…?”

• Sociologists and anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing

• The Psychopathology of Jacques Lacan or, Why Can’t Theorists Just Say What They Mean!??

• So what the hell is ‘quantitative easing’?

• Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated “Polysyllabic Truisms”

• The lessons of music culture for scholarly communication

• Open research and ‘self-promotion’

• How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy (within the first two weeks)

• “These kids don’t want to carry on. They want to see the whole bloody thing burn”

• The Sociology of Intellectual Faddishness or, Why it’s unfair to blame everything on Foucault

• Public Scholarship and Working With The Media

• Spatio-temporality and Social Structure: Or, what Realists can learn from Goffman

• The surreal position of ‘trade unions’ within contemporary political discourse

• Alienated and alienating writing (by alienated and alienating social scientists)

• Pahnl’s miniature world

• CfP: Making Trans Count

• The growth of ‘marcomms’ and the transformation of higher education

• The Great University Gamble

• The shifting language of research ‘participation’

• BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought

• The 2014 ISRF Essay Competition – Theory of Social Behaviour

• Digital / Moving Image and Networked Performance: on Cultural Transformations

• Race Critical Public Scholarship – pursuing justice in austere times, UEL, 17th July, 10.30-5.30

• Critical Realism: Problems and Prospects

• The growth of advertising and the political economy of dissatisfaction

• “But isn’t that what the psychologists do?”: the dangers of disciplinary boundary work

• The ‘Liquid Narrative’ of Spring Breakers

• Two potential directions for para-academic digital scholarship

• Baking an idea in the unconscious mind

• The AHRC’s Collaborative Skills Development call

• Call for papers: ‘Getting Social Research into Policy & Practice’

• Why are conspiracy theories popular?

• The Empty ‘Posturing’ of Žižek and Lacan?

• Caught Between Zombies and Chavs? The aesthetics of the crowd in an age of austerity

• The ALEC Rock

• Rethinking the vision of sociology one might want to argue for

• RIP James Gandolfini

• CfP: Gender violence and virtual worlds: brave new world(s) of regulation?

• “They were stalking the corridors, the lecture rooms, the offices…”: open research, ethics and impact

• CfP: The Sociological Craft Project

• Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick Competition for 3 PhD Studentships

• Some reflections on editing books and special issues while doing a PhD

• Quantified Self and Philosophical Anthropology

• 3 tips for managing institutional, project and group twitter feeds in #HigherEd