[This is a blog post based on a forthcoming presentation at the British Education Research Association Conference, taking place in Leeds in September 2016] My career has been spent in

I was interviewed recently by Dr. Philip Tonner, Director of The Hutcheson’s Centre for Research in Glasgow, who very kindly asked me to shared my thoughts about social theory and

I was fortunate enough to attend the recent Foucault @90 conference, held at the University of West of Scotland on the 22-23 June. It was well attended with a strong

Within the perennial crisis that marks the trajectory of the social sciences, discussions about how to ‘do’ and to ‘teach’ theory, variously defined, crop up again and again. One common

It’s been a long time now since I have been thinking about this. So I thought that I might as well blog about it, and see if I am or

A recurring question when talking to researchers is: Am I allowed to use social theory in my research? What this really means is: ‘what right do I have to apply