My CV   Education 2006 NOCN CQF Level 2 Developing Creative Entrepreneurs 2000 Admitted to Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (1st March) (now HEA). Made a Fellow March 2007. 1999 Accredited Teacher status, SEDA. 1999 Passed Open University postgraduate course HH661 Teaching in Higher Education. 1985 PhD, Sociology, (London University). 1970 MA Sociology, (Essex University). 1969 PGCE in Education, London (Avery Hill). 1968 BSc (Econ) Hons 2:1, London (LSE). Experience Current Post 2000-  Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, University College Plymouth  St Mark and St John   Previous Posts 1996 - 2000  Reader in Social Sciences (temporary), College of St Mark and St John  1976-99 OU Regional Tutor (a.k.a Associate Lecturer) for E351, E812, E814, E815 1988-93  Consultant to Deakin University (Australia) (contributed to MA), Open  University UK.  1988-90  Head of Sociology Media Subject Group, College of St Mark  and St John. 1988  Co-ordinator, Open University Summer School (E812). 1980  Lecturer in Philosophy, Chancellor College, Malawi, October-December. 1976 - 1996 Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences, College of St. Mark and  St. John, Plymouth. 1974-76  Lecturer, College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth.  1970-73  Research Assistant in Curriculum Design, Open University.  Other professional experience External Examiner - PhD theses, University of Tasmania, Deakin University  (x3), University of Melbourne. Reviewer/referee Routledge and Sage Guest reviewer/referee special edition of Open Learning Co-editor C-SAP monograph (with J Cope and J Canaan) Member C-SAP Sociology Reference Group 2005--08 Publications Solo-Authored Books 2005 Key Concepts in Leisure Studies, London: Sage Publications 2003 Teaching Yourself Social Theory, London, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications 1996 A Society of Signs?, London and New York: Routledge 1992 From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure: the effects of gramscianism in cultural studies, London and New York:  Routledge. 1987 Open-ness and Closure in Distance Education, London: Falmer Press. Jointly-Authored/Edited Books 2007 How To Succeed in Your Social Science Degree, (with Dr H Arksey), London: Sage Publications 2006 Teaching Social Theory (ed., with J Cope and J Canaan) C-SAP monograph Chapters in books 2008 'Distance Education: In Whose Interests?' in Evans, T D, Haughey, M & Murphy, D (eds) International Handbook of Distance Education, London: Emerald 2006 ' Social Theory and Strategic Communication' in Cope, J., Canaan, J. and Harris, D. (eds) Learning and Teaching Social Theory, Birmingham: C-SAP. 2006 'Hegemony and the Media'  in Ritzer, G. (ed) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2006 'Articulation', in Rojek, C, Shaw, S and Veal, T (eds) Handbook of Leisure Studies, London: Palgrave-Macmillan. 2002 ' Educational technology: emergent qualities and unintended consequences' in Evans T (ed) Research in Distance Education, 5 (e-book) online 2000 'Knowledge and Networks', in Evans T and Nation D (eds) Changing University Technologies, London: Kogan Page. 1995 'Still Seeking the Audience?' in Lockwood, F. (ed)  Research and Development in Distance Education, London: Routledge. 1994 '"Active Learning" and "Study Skills", the Return of the Technical Fix?', in Evans, T and Murphy, D (eds) Research in Distance Education 3, Geelong: Deakin University Press. 1993 Two contributions to Middleton C et al. (eds) Sociology Teaching Handbook.  BSA September 1993. 1993 'Distance education at the margins' in Evans T. and Nation D. (eds). Reforming Open and Distance Education: Critical Reflections from a Practice. London: Kogan Page. 1992 'Distance Education: Researching Formations' in Juler P. and Evans T. (eds).  Research in Distance Education 2, Geelong: Deakin University Press. 1991 'Towards a Critical Educational Technology in Distance Education' in King B. and Evans T. (eds). Beyond the Text..., Geelong: Deakin University Press. 1978 'Open-ness and Control in Higher Education: towards a critique of the Open University' (with J Holmes) in Dale R. et al. (eds) Schooling and Capitalism, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Journal Articles 2006 'Bibliographic Databases and Independent Learning' (with W. Evans and I. Gilhespy), in LINK 17 2005 'Using MCQ in Leisure Studies' in LINK 14 (online here) 2005 'Leisure Studies as a Teaching Object' in JoHLSTE 4(1) ( available online here) 1999 'A-level Sociology Texts'  in Reviewing Sociology 1999, vol 11 [now online] 1996 'Is there sociology after postmodernism' in Reviewing Sociology 1996,  9:.3 pp 4-12 [now online] 1991 'Quality Support: Measurement and Myth' (with D. Gorbutt and M. Harris) in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 16: 1, 37--48. 1988 'The Micropolitics of Open-ness' in Open Learning, 3: 2.  1988 'Multiculturalism and the Social Distribution of Critical Capacity' in Perspectives 39 1978 'On Marxist Bias', Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2: 2. 1976 'Educational Technology at the Open University:  A short history of achievement and cancellation',  British Journal of Educational Technology, 7: 1.      Electronic Resource guide in Leisure, Consumerism and Popular Culture, HEA Hospitality, Leisure Sport and Tourism Network, online Current projects designing RLOs (with Microsoft Producer) -- specimen here website components for Key Concepts... (click here) Conference Papers 2005 'The neutralisation of risk in higher education' (with H Arksey), BSA Annual Conference, York University, March [online here] 2005 'Social theory and strategic thinking' , C-SAP Conference, Birmingham, March  (to be published in C-SAP Monograph) 2004 'On Social Theory' (roundtable contribution, C-SAP Annual Conference, Birmingham, March 2001 'The Disney Experience: researching the active visitor', presented to the MA Tourism Conference, College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth. 2001 'Libraries, librarians and the Web' presented to a conference of the Careers Development Group, College of St Mark and St John. 2000 'Towards a Sociology of Study Skills', BSA Annual Conference, York University, April 2000 2000 'Educational technology: forms and effects', presented at the RIDE 2000 Conference, Deakin University, Geelong, December 2000 'Weaving a web: reflections on on-line entrepreneurship', given to the Faculty of Education, Deakin University, Geelong, December 1999 Two contributions to SSP2000 project conferences on teaching social theory [now online here] and here 1997 'Distance Education and its Technologies' , presented at the Annual COFHE Conference, Exeter, March 1997 [online] 1996 'British Cultural Studies and "Academic Realism"', given at Teaching Culture and the Cultures of Teaching, Sussex University, March 1996 [now online] 1993 '"Active learning" and study skills: A technical fix?',presented at the RIDE93 Conference, Deakin University, Australia.  1991 'Educational Media and Popular Media' at Deakin University, 'Distance Education: Researching Formations' at the RIDE91 Conference at Deakin and 'Educational Media' (with Dr. A. Morgan) at a public seminar at Monash University, Melbourne.  1990 'Racism in Predominantly-White Areas '(with Popple K. and Popple S.), presented to the BSA Annual Conference, University of Surrey.  1990 'The Subject in Cultural Studies - A Reply to Alan Tomlinson', presented to the Leisure Studies Association Conference, Plymouth. 1989 'Emancipatory Claims and Micropolitical Practice: teaching the Sociology of Education', presented to the British Sociological Association Annual Conference on Sociology in Action, Plymouth. [now online] 1987 'Educational Technology and the "Colonisation" of  Academic Work' Presented to the B.S.A. Annual Conference, Leeds. [now online] 1987 'On Distance Education' presented to the Institute of Educational Technology, Open University. [version online] go to site main page