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.
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 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. He has also published a number of edited books, including Visual Methods and Internet Research and co-edited books, including, together with John Goodwin, Documentary and Archival Research together with Chas Critcher, Julian Petley and Amanda Rolloff, Moral Panics in the Contemporary World and, together with Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin, Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives
