| Jason Hughes | |
| Birth Place: | United Kingdom |
| Workplaces: | University of Leicester |
| Alma Mater: | University of Leicester |
| Main Interests: | Sociology |
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, 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]