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Jason Hughes | |
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| Born | United Kingdom |
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| Alma mater | University of Leicester |
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| Institutions | University of Leicester |
| Main interests | Sociology |
| Website | www2 |
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]
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]
