Jason Hughes is a British

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

of Sociology at

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_lab ...

, elected Fellow of the

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, appointed Member of the Academy of Europe, and a Senior Fellow of the

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. Previously, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University in West London. He is currently co-editor of

Sociological Research Online ''Sociological Research Online'' is a sociological journal, published quarterly (March, June, September, December) since March 1996. It is an online-only, peer-reviewed journal. It was originally published by a consortium of the British Sociolog ...

member of the editorial board of Historical Social Research, and has acted as guest editor for journals such a
International Journal of Social Research MethodologyCrime, Media and Culture

Qualitative Research Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation. This ...

The Journal of Workplace Learning
and Historical Social Research. He is one of three members of the Board of th
Norbert Elias Foundation
, Amsterdam (a scholarly Foundation that oversees

Norbert Elias Norbert Elias (; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. Biography Elias was born on 22 June 1897 in Bresla ...

's estate and promotes his work internationally). Hughes' research interests include problematised consumption; drugs, addiction and health; emotions, work and identity;

figurational sociology Figurational sociology is a research tradition in which figurations of humans—evolving networks of interdependent humans—are the unit of investigation. Although more a methodological stance than a determinate school of practice, the tradition h ...

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''. He completed, together with

Eric Dunning Eric Dunning (27 December 1936 – 10 February 2019) was a British sociologist who was Emeritus Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester. Career Eric Dunning was a pioneer in the sociology of sport and the founder, with Patrick Murp ...

, a study of the work of

entitled ''Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process''. And together with Ruth Simpson and Natasha Slutskaya he wrote ''Gender, Class and Occupation''. He has also published a number of edited books, including ''Visual Methods'' and ''Internet Research'' and co-edited books, including, together with Kahryn Hughes, John Goodwin and Jerry Coulton ''Contemporary Approaches to Ethnographic Research''; together with John Goodwin, ''Documentary and Archival Research'' together with Chas Critcher, Julian Petley and Amanda Rohloff, ''Moral Panics in the Contemporary World''; and, together with Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin, ''Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives''. Hughes has also published numerous articles, chapters and papers relating to his research interests. His work has been the recipient of a number of prizes including the Norbert Elias Prize (2006), the Emerald Literati Prize (2013), and the Sage Innovation Prize (2017).

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