• 📣 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

• Do ‘prestigious’ journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world

• Purpose of Education: An Extensive Public Debate

• The Discursive Gap

• I generally can’t stand Damien Hirst but love this passage…

• The idea of ’emotional purchase’

• Why I can’t take postmodernists seriously when they talk about politics…

• The cultural transformation driven by the internet & the case study of asexuality

• An introduction to Margaret Archer’s hugely under-appreciated work on culture (cannibalisation of the unpublished chapter part 2)

• I’m cannibalising an unpublished book chapter and I can’t bring myself to just delete the bits that aren’t going in the new paper…

• The Best of Times

• The 5 most popular articles on my blog in 2012

• 2011: the year when I got REALLY into doing podcasts…

• ‘Lady Di’ and Kim Jong-il: weird affinities…

• A quick post on attachement theory and my PhD

• Spotlight on Asexuality Studies

• I’ve had this song stuck in my head for over a week now, usually doing this helps exorcise it:

• Who is Barack Obama?

• My PhD in 60 seconds

• A modest proposal for postgraduate education

• Chapter plan for ‘Late Capitalism and A/Sexual Culture’

• My TEDx Idea

• A video of my presentation at Spotlight on Asexuality Studies

• Efficiency and Civilisation

• The individual and the public

• Late capitalism and sexual culture – the project plan

• The neoliberal university – what is to be done?

• The psychic realm of neoliberal academia

• The architecture of the neoliberal university

• Academic freedom in the neoliberal university

• The Pseudo-Psychology of Asexuality

• Do you hate e-mail? I do. Can’t universities think of smarter ways to communicate internally?

• The University Project

• Andrew Hinderliter at “Spotlight on Asexuality”

• What sort of thing is asexuality?

• The Difficulty of Working Out Who You Are: Sexual Categories, Sexual Culture and Asexuality

• The Comics I’m selling (only posting this on the blog because I needed something online that I could link to in ads)

• The Third Industrial Revolution?

• The myth of academic autonomy

• Self-pathologisation and e-mail

• The punishing intensification of work within academia…

• Precarity in academic life

• Networking online for researchers

• Words cannot do justice to quite how much I want this iPad case…

• John Rex on the Politics of Social Research

• Olivier Cormier-Otaño at “Spotlight on Asexuality”

• The Dark Age of Macroeconomics

• Paul Krugman on the failings of the economics profession

• Wikipedia and Social Science 2.0

• Participant Observation

• Reflexivity and CBT

• Using an ePortfolio

• Managing Online Identity