Documentary & Archival Research

About

Jason Hughes is Professor and Head of the School of Media Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. His first book Learning to Smoke (2003 Chicago Press) which synthesised aspects of the work of Howard Becker with that of Foucault and Elias won the 2006 Norbert Elias prize. He has also coauthored with Ruth Simpson and Natasha Slutskaya Gender Class and Occupation: Working Class Men Doing Dirty Work (Palgrave 2016) and together with Eric Dunning Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge Interdependence Power Process (Bloomsbury 2013). Other works include the edited volumes Visual Methods (SAGE 2012) and Internet Research Methods (SAGE 2012) and coedited volumes Contemporary Approaches to Ethnographic Research (SAGE 2018) Documentary and Archival Research (SAGE 2016) Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (Bloomsbury 2013) and Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives (Routledge 2007). His current research funded by Cancer Research UK is investigating the careers of adolescent e-cigarette users. John Goodwin is a Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of Leicester. As a sociologist John has a broad range of research interests including education to work transitions sociological research methods and the history of sociology. He is a recognized expert on the life and sociology of Pearl Jephcott and he also has a significant interest in the works of Norbert Elias C. Wright Mills and Stanley Milgram. In terms of his sociological practice John has expertise in qualitative secondary analysis restudies biographical methods and the use of unconventional data sources in sociological research.