As a College-Based Higher Education (CBHE) course leader I continually, and often frustratingly, question what is happening and how decisions are made that affect my work, usually as I open an em...
About two years ago, I wrote about my ongoing reading of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence – AIME – Bruno Latour’s philosophical anthropology. AIME has been described as a summation of Lat...
Following from last week’s blogpost, in this post I will provide some practical ideas to teaching and learning online (an audio powerpoint about it can also be found here). To start with, it is...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2020/04/06/teaching-and-learning-online-some-ideas/
This text is a scripted version of the video I created on my take of teaching and learning online – Part 1. Through this resource I highlight some of the concepts that underpin my understandin...
On 18th Sept. 2019 we were invited to introduce our research as part of an event organised by UK Stand Alone, and held at the Scottish Parliament. While the focus of the day was on students’ ow...
2018 has been a strange year. Actually, the world has become a particular strange place to me since 2016. Although I recognise that for other people – depending on their own context – the wor...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2018/10/10/why-we-need-social-theory-now/
Imagining the future after Brexit: Academics tell their stories Call for Participation What is this research about? After four decades of membership, the UK has voted to leave the European ...
Marc Spooner and James McNinch write about their new edited book: Spooner & McNinch (2018) Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education (https://uofrpress.ca/Books/D/Dissident-Knowledge-in-Higher-Educ...
Are you attending the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology in July 15-21, 2018? So are we. If you would like to meet up during the event please let us know. We would love to hear from you and and ...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2018/05/14/want-to-meet-at-the-xix-isa-world-congress-of-sociology/
Journal of Applied Social Theory Call for Themed Issues We are very happy to announce the call for Themed Issues for the Journal of Applied Social Theory. The deadlines for proposals for Themed I...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2018/01/10/journal-applied-social-theory-call-themed-issues/