Jason Hughes (sociologist)

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 was a senior lecturer at Brunel University of London.[4][2]

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

He is co-editor of Sociological Research Online[5] member of the editorial board of Historical Social Research,[6] and has been 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, Amsterdam, which oversees Elias's estate and promotes his work.[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]

Hughes has published articles, chapters and papers relating to his research interests.[20][21] His work has been the recipient of a number of prizes including the Norbert Elias Prize (2006),[22] the Emerald Literati Prize (2013),[3] and the Sage Innovation Prize (2017).[23][2]

References

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  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. ^ "Google Scholar".
  21. ^ "JSTOR: Search Results".
  22. ^ "Jason Hughes: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)".
  23. ^ "SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence - Winners Archive".