Jason Hughes (sociologist)

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Jason Hughes
Born
United Kingdom
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Leicester
Main interestsSociology
Websitewww2.le.ac.uk/departments/sociology/people/prof-jason-hughes

Jason Hughes is a British professor of Sociology at University of Leicester, elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Science,[1] appointed Member of the Academy of Europe,[2] and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.[3] Previously, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University in West London.[4][2]

He is currently co-editor of Sociological Research Online[5] member of the editorial board of Historical Social Research,[6] and has acted as guest editor for journals such as International Journal of Social Research Methodology; Crime, Media and Culture; Qualitative Research; The Journal of Workplace Learning, and Historical Social Research.[3] He is one of three members of the Board of the Norbert Elias Foundation Archived 12 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine, Amsterdam (a scholarly Foundation that oversees Norbert Elias's estate and promotes his work internationally).[7]

Hughes' research interests include problematised consumption; drugs, addiction and health; emotions, work and identity; figurational sociology and sociological theory; methods and methodology; moral panics; regulation, and more recently, e-cigarettes and vaping, temporality and futures.

His first book was Learning to Smoke.[8][9] He completed, together with Eric Dunning, a study of the work of Norbert Elias entitled Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process.[10][11] And together with Ruth Simpson and Natasha Slutskaya he wrote Gender, Class and Occupation.[12] He has also published a number of edited books, including Visual Methods[13] and Internet Research[14] and co-edited books, including, together with Kahryn Hughes, John Goodwin and Jerry Coulton Contemporary Approaches to Ethnographic Research;[15] together with John Goodwin, Documentary and Archival Research[16] together with Chas Critcher, Julian Petley and Amanda Rohloff, Moral Panics in the Contemporary World;[17] and, together with Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin, Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives.[18][19][20]

Hughes has also published numerous articles, chapters and papers relating to his research interests.[21][22] His work has been the recipient of a number of prizes including the Norbert Elias Prize (2006),[23] the Emerald Literati Prize (2013),[3] and the Sage Innovation Prize (2017).[24][2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Fellows – Academy of Social Sciences". ACSS.
  2. ^ a b c "Academy of Europe: Hughes Jason".
  3. ^ a b c "Jason Hughes | People | University of Leicester".
  4. ^ "Profile page: Professor Jason Hughes". University of Leicester.
  5. ^ "SRO Editorial Board". Sociological Research Online, Sociological Research Online.
  6. ^ "GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences".
  7. ^ "Norbert Elias : Norbert Elias Foundation Board".
  8. ^ Learning to Smoke. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  9. ^ Pampel, Fred (2003). "Where there's smoke". Contexts. 2 (4): 63–65. doi:10.1525/ctx.2003.2.4.63. JSTOR 41800820. S2CID 61647590.
  10. ^ "Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  11. ^ Tucker, Kenneth H. (2014). "Reviewed work: Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process, Eric Dunning, Jason Hughes". Contemporary Sociology. 43 (6): 840–842. doi:10.1177/0094306114553217g. JSTOR 43185682. S2CID 143697759.
  12. ^ Simpson, Ruth; Hughes, Jason; Slutskaya, Natasha (2016). Gender, Class and Occupation. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-43969-7. ISBN 978-1-137-43967-3.
  13. ^ "SAGE Visual Methods | SAGE Publications Ltd". uk.sagepub.com. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  14. ^ "SAGE Internet Research Methods | SAGE Publications Ltd". uk.sagepub.com. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  15. ^ "Contemporary Approaches to Ethnographic Research". 11 July 2022.
  16. ^ (Sage, 2014)
  17. ^ (Bloomsbury, 2013)
  18. ^ (Routledge, 2007)
  19. ^ https://glose.com/author/jason-hughes [bare URL]
  20. ^ https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Jason+Hughes%22+sociologist+-wikipedia [bare URL]
  21. ^ "Google Scholar".
  22. ^ "JSTOR: Search Results".
  23. ^ "Jason Hughes: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)".
  24. ^ "SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence - Winners Archive".
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