Jason Hughes (sociologist) facts for kids

Jason Hughes is a British professor of Sociology at University of Leicester, elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Science, appointed Member of the Academy of Europe, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Previously, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University in West London.

He is currently co-editor of Sociological Research Online member of the editorial board of Historical Social Research, 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. 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).

Hughes' research interests include problematised consumption; addictions 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. He completed, together with Eric Dunning, a study of the work of Norbert Elias 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).