PhD Students


Just get in touch if you are interested in doing a PhD relating to any of the topics I work on: social practice theory, energy and policy, everyday life, consumption, material culture, infrastructures, space, time and a whole lot more.


Current PhD students

Robert Jones – dairy farming, governance, rules and practices, co supervised with Stanley Blue.

Michael Greenhough – seasonal practices, flexibility and energy demand.  Co-supervised with Stanley Blue.

Recently completed

Hannah Stoddart – first aid, social situations, responses, sociology of help, co-supervised with Stanley Blue and Emily Oliver of the British Red Cross

Charlie Southerton – office technologies and office work, material culture and practice, co-supervised with Nicola Spurling and Alice Cliff of Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (M.Phil)

Torik Holmes – space, social practices, infrastructures, urban, Manchester, co-supervised with Stanley Blue

Carolynne Lord (2019)  – tablet computers, integration, social practices, photography co-supervised with Janine Morley and Stanley Blue

Joe Gillett  – Running and swimming:A materialized account of careers and practices (2018) co-supervised with Nicola Spurling