I’ve always had a soft spot for the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty; these reflections are based on a reading of his: ‘Hegel’s existentialism’ In Maurice Merleau-Ponty Sense and non-sense (1964)

  On Wednesday the 8th May I will (alongside Claire Scott @missclairescott) deliver a social media workshop at Strathclyde University, on how to use blogging in research. The audience will

How do people - research students in particular - arrive at the theory that’s right for their project or for them? In my experience of supervising, this is a real

I only noticed it at editing stage, but an important debate had threaded itself through some of the chapters in my recently published book on Social theory and education research.

[Note: I write this in advance of the next #spschat on the social significance of guilt and shame hosted by the Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society - Tuesday

I was asked this question recently, and it’s a good one. Rarely if ever do I ask this question of myself, probably because Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse et al have