Jason Hughes (sociologist)

Jason Hughes is currently a professor and head of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at University of Leicester. Previously, he worked as a senior lecturer at Brunel University in West London.[1]

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 lately, tea culture. His first book was Learning to Smoke[2] More recently he has completed, together with Eric Dunning, a study of the work of Norbert Elias entitled Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process.[3] He has also published a number of edited books, including Visual Methods[4] and Internet Research[5] and co-edited books, including, together with John Goodwin, Documentary and Archival Research[6] together with Chas Critcher, Julian Petley and Amanda Rolloff, Moral Panics in the Contemporary World[7] and, together with Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin, Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives[8]