Deborah is an advocate of using social and other digital media for professional purposes. She blogs at ‘This Sociological Life’, tweets @DALupton, has a number of Pinterest boards and Storify presentations dealing with her current research interests and administers three Facebook pages: Sociology of Health,… Read More ›
Higher Education 
The joys of grad student shaming
We recently discovered English Grad Student Shaming and we think it’s wonderful. It’s also striking how many of the themes on the blog seem to be relevant beyond the disciplinary confines of English Lit. So, an obvious question, does anyone want… Read More ›
CfP: Social Media in Social Research
The Social Research Association is holding the third Social Media in Social Research Conference on Monday June 24 in central London. Following the success of the first two events, we would like to receive papers and presentations on this subject… Read More ›
Will you be at #BritSoc13?
We’ll be there for some of it, with impulsively purchased SI branded pens to give out. Meanwhile, check out this video of last year’s BSA conference:
The Future of Sociology
“The Future of Sociology” on Bundlr
Ethnographic Methods: ethics, practice and theory
Ethnographic Methods: ethics, practice and theory 12.00-17.00, Thursday, 23 May 2013 The University of Warwick At its best, ethnography – often glossed as ‘participant observation’ – has provided sociology and other social researchers with a valuable tool for apprehending a… Read More ›
The Definitive Guide to Academic Social Media
“The Definitive Guide to Academic Social Media” on Bundlr
“Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?” (part 2)
The original version of this post got an interesting comment yesterday. We hope the author won’t mind us reposting the comment as a new post. It was a quick content analysis of the answers in the original post. So… why do you… Read More ›
Subjectivity and Subculture: One Day Symposium
Subjectivity and Subculture ~ One Day Symposium ~ Monday 10th June 2013: 9:00am-6:30pm Institute of Advanced Study, Milburn House, University of Warwick We are delighted to announce that Dr Rupa Huq, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, and Dr Shane Blackman, Professor… Read More ›
23 April 2013 ‘Enacting public engagement: collaboration and critique within/beyond the university’
23 April 2013 – Enacting public engagement: collaboration and critique within/beyond the university, organised by the Creating Publics project and the Enactments Research Programme, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University. The aims of this forum are to… Read More ›
Reflections on taking the intellectual carving knife to your PhD thesis
I remember very distinctly the moment when I first took a figurative carving knife to my PhD thesis. I was in a careers workshop at a conference and a senior academic had just explained how the oh-so-rational metric of the… Read More ›
Philosophy by podcast?
In this podcast Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds, the duo behind the popular philosophy bites series, talk about podcasting and its broader significance in contemporary society. We found this fascinating, on a narcissistic level because of the idea that the unglamorous job of digital editing… Read More ›
CfP: Normality in an uncertain world
Normality in an uncertain world 6th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference, 10th and 11th September 2013 Call for Abstracts This conference aims to bring together post-graduates and researchers, with an interest in normality, to explore the development, current application and possible future… Read More ›
Digital Sociologist #3: David Beer
How did Thinking Culture come about? Has the way you’ve used the blog changed over time? How does your blog connect with the rest of your work? Do you ever have trouble finding time to blog? So is curation a central part… Read More ›
Continuous publishing has changed my experience of developing ideas
A few months ago Pat Lockley and I wrote an article for the LSE Impact Blog about continuous publishing. This was actually a phrase introduced by the site’s editor for the title but it perfectly captured what we were trying to get at. Given that… Read More ›
How will sociology cope with digital data? An interview with David Beer
Why should sociologists care about the ‘digital’? What is ‘digital by-product data’? Why is it sociologically interesting? How can sociologists cope with digital data? How will digital data shape sociological practice? To find out more about his work, see David’s… Read More ›
“Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?”
This was the question I asked earlier this morning on Twitter. I was preparing a workshop on twitter for academics and was a little nervous about my content. The basic point of the workshop was to convince participants about the value of… Read More ›
“Why do you find blogging useful as a researcher?”
I asked this question on Twitter in preparation for a blogging for researchers workshop I was running at the University of Warwick. I’ve included some of the answers I received below. I’ve also collated a collection of resources here. Part of the… Read More ›
The academic study of football: introducing the LMCFR
The Lawrie McMenemy Centre for Football Research (LMCFR) at Southampton Solent University is a “multi-disciplinary football education, research and consultancy centre which provides expert support for the football industry, students and the media in a number of areas”:
The Vaue of Multi-Author Blogging for Communicating Research
The word ‘blogging’ often has negative connotations. Yet blogging can be understood both as an output and as a platform. Many negative views about blogging are connected to a certain idea of what it is: a single author, using it as a forum to… Read More ›
Request for help from New Social Media, New Social Science
How do you make decisions about ethical questions when designing online research? Where are the gray or sticky areas? What resources have helped– what do you need? The New Social Media, New Social Science project would like your input so… Read More ›
CFP: The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting
There is a name for those under- and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic. Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect… Read More ›