Jason Hughes - Curriculum Vitae#

Career Highlights#

Research

• Track Record of grant capture from major funders including: Cancer Research UK, Wellcome Trust, ESRC, British Academy, UKRI. In the past two years alone, this includes projects of £500,000 total FEC value
  
• Author, editor and co-author/editor of 9 books, including several prestigious Four Volume Master Works for Sage. 30+ refereed journal articles. 25 book chapters. 10 keynote addresses, and numerous other invited and funded presentations and reports
  
• International reputation: work translated into French, Portuguese, Hungarian, German, Italian and Japanese
  
• Winner of Sage Innovation Prize (2018); Emerald Literati Prize (2013); Norbert Elias Prize (2006)
  
• Member of several editorial boards, guest editor of numerous journals, currently co-editor of Sociological Research Online

• External Examiner for numerous programmes globally and domestically, including universities of Kent, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Ulster, Aberystwyth, City University, Kings College London
  
• Progenitor of a raft of Postgraduate Taught programmes, including a professional doctorate by distance learning, the first of its kind in the UK
  
• Teaching Fellowship award (2005). Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (2018)
  
• Outstanding teaching in countries across Europe and globally, particularly Southeast Asia.
  
• Supervision to completion of some 20+ PhD students

• 25 years of academic leadership in Departmental, School, College and University level roles. Most recently, Head of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester (60+ staff)
  
• Roles in the discipline nationally (BSA External Advisory Committee)
  
• Public engagements nationally and internationally, including BBC and major news media
  
• Co-launch of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement Unit at Leicester
  
• Co-organiser of numerous conferences/symposia including major events for International Sociological Association RC33, Norbert Elias Foundation
  
• Board member of Norbert Elias Foundation (2016–). Major figure in global and international ‘figurational’ research network
  
• Reviewer for ESRC, Cancer Research UK; and of manuscripts for Routledge, Polity, McGill-Queens Publishers, Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate, and Sage Publications.