• Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor for the British Sociological Association?

• Different uses which PhD students can make of Twitter. If anyone has any they can add to the list, it would be really appreciated!

• There’s more to life than sex? How sexuality is changing and why it matters

• The foundation of relational sociology

• Hey students, are you finding it difficult to manage your money?

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• An introduction to Margaret Archer’s hugely under-appreciated work on culture (cannibalisation of the unpublished chapter part 2)

• I’m cannibalising an unpublished book chapter and I can’t bring myself to just delete the bits that aren’t going in the new paper…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

• This is also really cool…

• A year ago I would have thought this was really silly…

• Bill Gates vs Cassette Boy

• How we could do academic publishing differently…

• iPhone 5???

• The chutzpah is pretty breath-taking…

• Want to deconstruct heteronormative paradigms and cultivate a transformative and emancipatory radical intellectual praxis…?

• My response to Tom “sue the oppressive LSE feminazis” Martin

• Shrill neoliberal ideologue begins lecturing about the moral virtues of declining prosperity – a sign of things to come?

• Blogging for Researchers

• C. Wright Mills: Legacies and Prospects – 50 Years On


• “There’s no money left in the kitty”: austerity politics and the deficit of sociological imagination

• The Secret Club at the Heart of Politics?

• Could you imagine this on UK TV?

• How do our brothers and sisters shape who we are?

• The all-powerful conspiracy which hides the fact that men are oppressed by women. Or not…

• Serco Group – “the biggest company you’ve never heard of”

• UK Riots: Sociological Perspectives and Civic Responses

• My PhD in 60 seconds (video to follow soon!)

• Becoming Who We Are

• Missed Opportunities

• What’s the point of edited books? A step-by-step proposal for social media alternative

• Asexual Practices and Identities: Negotiating the Sexual Imperative

• BSA Annual Conference 2012: Sociology in an Age of Austerity

• Stuck between modernity and postmodernity? The modern history of Coventry

• The Blurring Boundaries Between CIA and NYPD – Modernization and Liberty

• The concept of ‘prestige’ in the emerging 21st century communicative ecology

• There was an old woman…

• One Term Tories! The end is nigh for the Cameroons?

• Doorstep rubbish collections scrapped after 130 years – a sign of things to come

• Research Help! Answer this quick entirely unscientific question for me? Please :)

• Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup – God’s Away On Business – YouTube

• England’s riots shouldn’t be blamed on ‘moral decline’, says Tony Blair | UK news | The Observer

• Chavs, Feral Youth, Moral Panics, #UKRiots

• There’s more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community

• C Wright Mills on the Intellectual’s Responsibility

• Social Media and Academic Publishing

• #UKRiots and Sociology

• #UKRiots and Sociological Imagination

• Informed Commentary from Daily Telegraph Readers on Last Night’s Riot

• Liberating Ourselves from the Filter Bubble

• Transcript of an interview I did with AsexualNews.Com

• GTD and Reflexivity #2 – Reflexive Technology & Teleology