• 📣 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

• 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…

• Questions about the RCUK’s Open Access Policy

• ‘Academic spring’ or media hype? The open acccess debate and what it means for researchers

• What does the government’s open access announcement mean for researchers? A round up of coverage & reaction

• What about the authors who can’t pay? Why the government’s embrace of gold open access isn’t something to celebrate

• The problems facing a digital research culture amongst PhD students and how universities can solve them

• Asexuality, Activism and Allies

• The ‘first’ sexual revolution

• Scholarly Publishing and ePresses – Interview with @agatamontoya about the new university presses in Australia

• How curation tools can enhance academic practice

• Curation Tools for Academics – free workshop @warwickuni this Monday (9th) at 12pm in the Research Exchange

• 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