Professor William Housley
PhD, DSc.Econ. FAcSS FLSW

Teams and roles for William Housley

Chair in Sociology
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Professor William Housley PhD, DSc.Econ. FAcSS, FLSW is an internationally recognised expert in qualitative and social research methods, sociological theory, the study of practical reason, ethnomethodology, membership categorization analysis, social interaction and digital sociology. He was a co-founder and core member of the Collaborative Online Social Media ObServatory (COSMOS) that was funded by the ESRC and JISC and currently convenes the Emerging Technology and Digital Sociology (EMTEDS) Research Group at Cardiff University. His contribution to Sociology was confirmed through the award of a DSc Econ. by Cardiff University in 2012 for his internationally recognized work in the field of interaction, communication and social organization. Professor Housley served as a member of the expert review group for the QAA (UK) Sociology subject benchmarking statement in 2016. He has published widely on social research methods, interaction and communication, social media, citizenship, identity and collaborative team-work. His current focus is on the emerging field of digital sociology as it relates to new socio-technical systems, disruptive technologies, interaction, algorithmic accountability, automation, interdisciplinarity, community and civil society. He recently completed a Cardiff University 12 Month Research Fellowship entitled ‘Media, Manufacture and Mobilities: Disruptive Digital Technologies in Action’. He has served as a co-editor of Qualitative Research (SAGE, 2012-2018) and served on the editorial boards of the BSA flag ship journal Sociology (SAGE), Big Data and Society (SAGE) and Discourse, Context and Media (Wiley). Professor Housley was awarded the prestigious Vincent Wright Chair, at Sciences Po, Paris, in 2017. He has provided expert review for a number of research funders and organisations including the ESRC (UK), British Academy, the Austrian Research Council and the Volkswagen Foundation Momentum programme. Professor Housley served as a member of the REF (UK) 2021 Sociology Panel and has been appointed to the REF (UK) 2029 Sociology Panel. He is the Director of the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (ESRC, DTP) and a Learned Society for Wales (LSW) Cenhadon, Cardiff University.

I welcome supervision in the areas of:

The emerging contours of digital societies
Ethnomethodology and the social life of methods and data
Social implications of disruptive digital technologies
Communication and interaction
The sociology of art and design
Collaborative working and interdisciplinary practice
Decision-making and organisations

Date
Type

2019

Albert, S. , Housley, W. and Stokoe, E. 2019. In case of emergency, order pizza: an urgent case of action formation and recognition. Presented at: CUI 2019: 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces Dublin, Ireland 22-23 August 2019. CUI '19: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. ACM. , pp.1. (10.1145/3342775.3342800)
Henwood, K. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2019. Qualitative research in reflexive mode: The participatory turn and interpretive social science. Qualitative Research 19 (3), pp.241-246. (10.1177/1468794119844103)
Housley, W. 2019. Sacks, Harvey. In: Atkinson, P. et al., Sage Research Methods. Sage(10.4135/9781526421036816094)
Housley, W. , Albert, S. and Stokoe, E. 2019. Natural action processing: conversation analysis and big interactional data. Presented at: Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 Nottingham, UK 19-20 Nov 2019. Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019. Nottingham: HTTF. , pp.1-4. (10.1145/3363384.3363478)
Procter, R. et al., 2019. A study of cyber hate on Twitter with implications for social media governance strategies. [Online].arXiv. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11732.

2018

Housley, W. 2018. Conversation analysis, publics, practitioners and citizen social science. Discourse Studies 20 (3), pp.431-437. (10.1177/1461445618754581)
Housley, W. et al. 2018. Interaction and transformation on social media: the case of Twitter campaigns. Social Media and Society 4 (1), pp.1-12. (10.1177/2056305117750721)

2017

Carrigan, M. and Housley, W. 2017. Social science & social futures: fast scholarship, emerging technologies & the future of inquiry. Discover Society DS40 (Focus)
Fitzgerald, R. , Housley, W. and Rintel, S. 2017. Membership Categorisation Analysis. Technologies of social action. Journal of Pragmatics 118 , pp.51-55. (10.1016/j.pragma.2017.07.012)
Housley, W. et al. 2017. Qualitative methods and data in digital societies. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.607-609. (10.1177/1468794117730936)
Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Interactionism and digital society. Qualitative Research 17 (2), pp.187-201. (10.1177/1468794116685142)
Housley, W. et al. 2017. Digitizing Sacks? Approaching social media as data. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.627-644. (10.1177/1468794117715063)
Housley, W. et al. 2017. Membership categorisation and antagonistic Twitter formulations. Discourse and Communication 11 (6), pp.567-590. (10.1177/1750481317726932)
Webb, H. et al., 2017. The ethical challenges of publishing Twitter data for research dissemination. Presented at: WebSci'17: ACM Web Science Conference Troy, NY, USA 25-28 June 2017. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference. ACM. , pp.339-348. (10.1145/3091478.3091489)

2016

Henwood, K. L. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2016. Editorial. Qualitative Research 16 (3), pp.257. (10.1177/1468794116638982)
Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2016. The response in Twitter to an assisted suicide in a television soap opera. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 37 (5), pp.392-395. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000377)
Webb, H. et al., 2016. Digital wildfires: propagation, verification, regulation, and responsible innovation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 34 (3) 15. (10.1145/2893478)

2015

Burnap, P. et al. 2015. COSMOS: Towards an integrated and scalable service for analysing social media on demand. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 30 (2), pp.80-100. (10.1080/17445760.2014.902057)
Burnap, P. et al. 2015. Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis. Technological Forecasting & Social Change 95 , pp.96-108. (10.1016/j.techfore.2013.04.013)
Housley, W. 2015. Defining the situation in collaborative interdisciplinary team work. Presented at: 14th International Pragmatics Association Conference Antwerp, Belgium 26-31 July 2015.
Housley, W. 2015. The emerging contours of data science. Discover Society
Housley, W. et al. 2015. Editorial. Qualitative Research 15 (1), pp.3-3. (10.1177/1468794114567381)
Housley, W. et al. 2015. Social media and civil society: participation, regulation and governance. Presented at: WISERD 2015 Annual Conference Cardiff, Wales 30 June - 2 July 2015.
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2015. Advances in membership categorisation analysis. SAGE.
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2015. Introduction to membership categorisation analysis. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Advances in Membership Categorisation Analysis. SAGE. , pp.1-22.
Housley, W. and Smith, R. 2015. Membership categorisation and methodological reasoning in research team interaction. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Advances in Membership Categorisation Analysis. SAGE
Webb, H. et al., 2015. Digital wildfires: hyper-connectivity, havoc, and a global ethos to govern social media. Computers and Society 45 (3), pp.193-201.
Whittle, A. et al., 2015. Category predication work, discursive leadership and strategic sensemaking. Human Relations 68 (3), pp.377-407. (10.1177/0018726714528253)

2014

Burnap, P. et al. 2014. Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack. Social Network Analysis and Mining 4 206. (10.1007/s13278-014-0206-4)
Housley, W. 2014. Varieties of narrative analysis [Book Review]. Qualitative Research 14 (3), pp.386-388. (10.1177/1468794113503103)
Housley, W. et al. 2014. Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: a collaborative response. Big Data & Society 1 (2)(10.1177/2053951714545135)
Whittle, A. et al., 2014. Power, politics and organizational communication: an ethnomethodological perspective. In: Cooren, F. et al., Language and communication at work: discourse, narrativity and organizing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.71-94.

2013

Burnap, P. et al. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: Web Observatory Launch, Royal Society London, UK 2013.
Burnap, P. et al. 2013. Detecting tension in social media. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications Karlsruhe, Germany 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013.
Edwards, A. M. et al. 2013. Digital social research, social media and the sociological imagination: Surrogacy, augmentation and re-orientation. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16 (3), pp.245-260. (10.1080/13645579.2013.774185)
Housley, W. et al. 2013. COSMOS: theory, method and data. Presented at: Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick Warwick, UK 2013.
Housley, W. , Williams, M. L. and Edwards, A. M. 2013. Demonstration of pre-alpha COSMOS. Presented at: Invited Presentation Brisbane, Australia 2013.
Housley, W. et al. 2013. Special issue: Introduction. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16 (3), pp.173-175. (10.1080/13645579.2013.774164)
Rob, P. et al., 2013. Enabling social media research through citizen social science. Presented at: 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Paphos, Cyprus 21-25 September 2013.
Sloan, L. et al. 2013. Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving sociologically relevant demographics from Twitter. Sociological Research Online 18 (3) 7. (10.5153/sro.3001)
Sloan, L. et al. 2013. The Collaborative Online Social Media Observatory. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science? Blurring the Boundaries: One Year On London, UK 2013.
Sloan, L. et al. 2013. Using social media with survey data. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science? London, UK 2013.
Williams, M. L. et al. 2013. Policing cyber-neighbourhoods: Tension monitoring and social media networks. Policing and Society 23 (4), pp.461-481. (10.1080/10439463.2013.780225)
Williams, M. L. et al. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: COSMOS Launch London, England 2013.

2012

Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics (a research note). Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Working paper 153: social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics 2012 [working paper]. Working paper. Cardiff: School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/Working%20Paper%20153%20-%20Burnap%20et%20al.%20(2013)%20Social%20Media%20Analysis,%20Twitter%20and%20the%20London%20Olympics%202012%20-%20A%20Research%20Note.pdf.
Edwards, A. M. et al. 2012. Mining tension and cohesion using the Cardiff Online Social Media Observatory. Presented at: NCRM, Research Methods Festival,St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2012.
Housley, W. 2012. Analysing practical and professional texts: A naturalistic approach [book review]. Qualitative Research 12 (1), pp.92-94. (10.1177/1468794111421229)
Housley, W. 2012. Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and educational settings. In: Delamont, S. ed. Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education. Edward Elgar Publishing. , pp.446-449.
Housley, W. et al. 2012. Supporting empirical digital social research for the social sciences. Presented at: Digital Research 2012 Conference, St Catherines College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2012.
Williams, M. D. et al. 2012. Computational social science and methodological innovation: surrogacy, augmentation or reorientation. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: Blurring the boundaries: New social media, new social science? London, UK 2012.
Williams, M. L. et al. 2012. Treating social media as data: computational sociological Methods, data analysis and the Cardiff online social media Observatory. Presented at: NCRM, Research Methods Festival, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2012.
Williams, M. L. , Edwards, A. M. and Housley, W. 2012. Big data and criminology. Presented at: CCLJ Postgraduate Conference on Theory and Method in Criminological Research Cardiff, UK 2012.
Williams, M. L. et al. 2012. Computational and transformational social science. Presented at: Digital Social Research Experts Meeting, Keble College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2012.

2011

Housley, W. 2011. Organisation, interaction and practice: studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis [book review]. Qualitative Research 11 (1), pp.105-107. (10.1177/14687941110110010703)
Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Mundane reason, membership categorization practices and the everyday ontology of space and place in interview talk. Qualitative Research 11 (6), pp.698-715. (10.1177/1468794111415960)
Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Telling the CAQDAS code: Membership categorization and the accomplishment of ‘coding rules’ in research team talk. Discourse Studies 13 (4), pp.417-434. (10.1177/1461445611403258)

2010

Housley, W. 2010. Reductionism in qualitative methods (Methodological Innovation Stream). Presented at: BSA Annual Conference Glasgow, UK 2010.
Housley, W. 2010. The new political sociology: power, ideology and identity in the age of complexity – By Graham Taylor. The Sociological Review 58 (4), pp.701-703. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01948.x)
Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2010. Innovation and reduction in contemporary qualitative methods: the case of conceptual coupling, activity-type pairs and auto-ethnography. Sociological Research Online 15 (4) 9. (10.5153/sro.2216)

2009

Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. eds. 2009. Media, policy and interaction. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. 2009. Media, policy and interaction: introduction. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Media, Policy and Interaction. Farnham: Ashgate. , pp.1-12.
Fitzgerald, R. , Housley, W. and Butler, C. W. 2009. Omnirelevance and interactional context. Australian Journal of Communication 36 (3), pp.45-64.
Housley, W. 2009. Brand, identity or citizenship (Stream on Welsh identity and devolution). Presented at: BSA Annual Conference Cardiff, UK 16th-18th April 2009.
Housley, W. 2009. Interaction, discourse and the subject. Subjectivity 26 (1), pp.69-86. (10.1057/sub.2008.33)
Housley, W. 2009. The ordering of relations: Jaynesian psycho-history, bicameralism and post-individual digital subjectivity. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp129.pdf.
Housley, W. 2009. Visions of Wales: visual artists and cultural futures. Cultural Sociology 3 (1), pp.147-164. (10.1177/1749975508100675)
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2009. Beyond the discursive: the case of social organization -- a reply to Edwards, Hepburn and Potter. Qualitative Research 9 (1), pp.129-133. (10.1177/1468794108095076)
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2009. Membership categorization, culture and norms in action. Discourse & Society 20 (3), pp.345-362. (10.1177/0957926509102405)
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2009. Membership category work in policy debate. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Media, Policy and Interaction. Farnham: Ashgate. , pp.13-26.
Housley, W. , Moles, K. and Smith, R. 2009. Identity, brand or citizenship: the case of post-devolution Wales. Contemporary Wales 22 (1), pp.196-210.
Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2009. Mundane reason and the politics of space. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference Manchester, UK August 2009.
Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2009. Mundane reason, ontology and the politics of space. Presented at: Sociological Review Conference- The Politics of Imagination Stratford, UK May 2009.

2008

Atkinson, P. A. , Delamont, S. and Housley, W. 2008. Contours of culture : complex ethnography and the ethnography of complexity. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.
Fitzgerald, R. , Jaworski, A. and Housley, W. 2008. Generating news: agenda setting in radio broadcast news. In: Burger, M. ed. L'analyse linguistique des discours médiatiques: Entre sciences du langage et sciences de la communication. Québec: Les Éditons Nota bene. , pp.133-151.
Fitzgerald, R. , Housley, W. and Butler, C. 2008. Omni-relevance and interactional context. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp109.pdf.
Housley, W. 2008. LARRY T. REYNOLDS and NANCY J. HERMAN--KINNEY, Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism. Walnut Tree, CA: Altamira Press, 2003, 1077 pp. ISBN 0 7591 0092 6. $110.00 [Book Review]. Qualitative Research 8 (2), pp.266-267. (10.1177/14687941080080020606)
Housley, W. 2008. Media, categorization, policy and debate. Presented at: International Sociological Association (ISA) Barcelona, Spain 5-8 September, 2008.
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2008. Motives and social organization: sociological amnesia, psychological description and the analysis of accounts. Qualitative Research 8 (2), pp.237-256. (10.1177/1468794107087483)
Housley, W. and Wahl-Jorgensen, K. 2008. Theorizing the democratic gaze: Visitors' experiences of the new Welsh Assembly. Sociology 42 (4), pp.726-744. (10.1177/0038038508091625)

2007

Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. 2007. Talkback, community and the public sphere. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy (122), pp.150-163.
Housley, W. 2007. Wales, art, narrative and devolution. Contemporary Wales 19 (1), pp.57-76.
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2007. Categorization, interaction, policy and debate. Critical Discourse Studies 4 (2), pp.187-206. (10.1080/17405900701464840)

2006

Bailey, N. J. , Housley, W. and Belcher, P. M. 2006. Navigation, interaction and bridge team work. The Sociological Review 54 (2), pp.342-362. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2006.00617.x)
Housley, W. 2006. Artists, art worlds and studios: a research note from Wales. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Housley, W. 2006. Membership categorisation analysis, sequences and meeting talk. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Housley, W. 2006. Wales, identity and cultural modernization. Contemporary Wales 18 (1), pp.156-166.
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2006. Conversation analysis, practitioner based research, reflexivity and reflective practice: Some exploratory remarks.. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2003

Atkinson, P. A. and Housley, W. 2003. Interactionism. BSA new horizons in sociology London: Sage.
Housley, W. 2003. Art, Wales, discourse and devolution. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Housley, W. 2003. Interaction in multidisciplinary teams. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2003. Moral discrepancy and political discourse: Accountability and the allocation of blame in a political news interview. Sociological Research Online 8 (2)

2002

Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. 2002. Identity, categorization and sequential organization: the sequential and categorial flow of identity in a radio phone-in. Discourse & Society 13 (5), pp.579-602. (10.1177/0957926502013005275)
Housley, W. 2002. Moral discrepancy device and 'fudging the issue' in a radio news interview. Sociology 36 (1), pp.5-22. (10.1177/0038038502036001001)
Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2002. The reconsidered model of membership categorisation analysis. Qualitative research 2 (1), pp.59-83. (10.1177/1468794102002001639)
Housley, W. and Latimer, J. E. 2002. Doing Qualitative Research - David Silverman. [Book Review]. The Sociological Review 50 (1), pp.140-141. (10.1111/1467-954X.00359)

2001

Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2001. Categorisation, narrative and devolution in Wales. Sociological Research Online 6 (2), pp.U127-U145.

2000

Housley, W. 2000. Category work and knowledgeability within multidisciplinary team meetings. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse 20 (1), pp.83-108. (10.1515/text.1.2000.20.1.83)
Housley, W. 2000. Story, narrative and team work. The Sociological Review 48 (3), pp.425-443. (10.1111/1467-954X.00224)

1999

Housley, W. 1999. Role as an interactional device and resource in multidisciplinary team meetings. Sociological Research Online 4 (3)(10.5153/sro.315)

Funded Research Projects

2015 – 2017 Digital Wildfires, responsible citizenship and social media. Funded by the British Academy, £10,000 (with Girvan, Edwards, Jirotka and Procter).

2014 – 2017, Digital Wildfire: (Mis)information flows, propagation and responsible governance. Funded by ESRC, Cardiff Lead Co-investigator (Global Uncertainties), £248,413 (with Jirotka, Procter, Edwards et al)

2015 - Media, Manufacture and Mobilities: Disruptive Digital Technologies in Action. Cardiff University Research Fellowship, £15,000

2014 – 2015, Detecting Tension and Cohesion in Local Communities with Social Media, Funded by Airbus Group, £51,040 Co-investigator (with Rana, Burnap, Edwards and Williams)

2014 – 2016, Sage Postdoctoral Fellowship Funding, Co-sponsored Research Methods Fellowship at Cardiff University, Co-investigator (with Coffey, Edwards and Brindle, SAGE) £38,000

2013 – 2015, Understanding the role of social media in the aftermath of youth suicides. Funded by Department of Health, England. £200,000, Co-investigator (with Scourfield, Williams, Burnap and Edwards).

2013-2014, Hate Speech and Social Media: Understanding Users, Networks and Information Flows.Funded by ESRC and Google (Google Data Analytics Social Science Research Call) £124, 986, Principal- Investigator (with Williams, Edwards, Burnap, Rana, Procter, Voss and Knight).

2013-2014, Social Media and Prediction: Crime Sensing, Data Integration and Statistical Modelling. Funded by ESRC /NCRM Methodological Innovation, £195,000, Co-Investigator (with Williams, Edwards, Burnap, Rana, Procter, Voss and Knight).

2013-2014, Supporting Empirical Digital Social Research for the Social Sciences with a Virtual Research Environment. Funded by JISC, £55,519, Co Investigator (with Burnap, Williams, Rana, Edwards & Avis).

2011-12, Digital Social Research Tools, Tension Indicators and Safer Communities: A Demonstration of the Cardiff Online Social Media Observatory (COSMOS). Funded by the ESRC £79,000 Co-Investigator (with Matthew Williams, Adam Edwards, Malcolm Williams, Omer Rana and Nick Avis).

2012, Requirements Analysis for Social Media Research Tools. Funded by the ESRC £5,000, Co Investigator (with Burnap, Housley, Rana, Edwards, Avis & Proctor).

2010 – 2012, Alternative Dwelling Construction, Lifestyle and Green Expertise. Funded by the British Academy, £5000.

2005 – 2006, Coal, Slate and Culture. Funded by the Board of Celtic Studies, £7000.

2001 – 2002, Art and Devolution in Wales: Perceptions and Expectations. Funded by the British Academy, £5000.

Research impact

My current impact activities focus on Disruptive Digital Technologies: Governance, Regulation and Responsible Innovation. This has been identified as an emerging impact narrative for SOCSI.

Activities

ESRC Digital Wildfires Project (Oxford, Cardiff and Warwick Universities) Impact Activity

ESRC Impact Acceleration Award: In addition to the above I recently secured (as a co-applicant) an ESRC Impact Acceleration Award (£20,000, 2016 - 2017) with colleagues based at Oxford University (Professor Marina Jirotka, Computer Science) and Warwick University (Professor Rob Procter, Computer Science). This will help accelerate a range of impact initiatives that are connected to a suite of interconnected research projects that I have been undertaking over the last four years (2012 – 2016).

I have been employed in a number of different teaching positions. This has provided me with considerable teaching experience and time to develop a range of effective strategies for carrying out tutorials, seminars, workshops and lectures. I am aware of the issues surrounding assessment and delivery of course material within a changing environment in Higher Education. I am grounded within the practical challenges of teaching and have a reservoir of experience in teaching mainstream social science in a number of diverse settings and to range of learning audiences. This has included full time and part time students, undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals on short training courses. I represented the Welsh social science and sociology community as a panel member for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) sociology subject benchmark review carried out during the course of 2015/2016.

Undergraduate Teaching

Social Theory (S1006);
Sociology of Culture (S10134);
Power, Culture and Identity (S10164);
New Frontiers in Sociology (S10163)

Postgraduate Teaching

MSc/Diploma Social Science Research Methods

Discourse and Conversation Analysis (SIT072)
Advanced Concepts in Sociology(SIT074)
Qualitative Research

Professor William Housley, PhD, DSc.Econ, FAcSS, FLSW

Honours and awards

FLSW. (Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, conferred 2024)

Vincent Wright Chair, Sciences Po, 2016 - 2017

FAcSS. (Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, conferred 2016)

DSc.Econ. (Senior Doctorate) Cardiff University, 2012

Visiting Research Fellow, Welsh Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs (WISCA), University of Wales, Bangor (2006)

Professional memberships

Member of British Sociological Association

Member of Association for Studies in Innovation Science and Technology (AsSIST - UK)

Associate member of WISERD ESRC/HEFCE/WAG research institute (Cardiff, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Swansea Universities, Wales, UK)

Academic positions

Deputy Director, Research and Graduate School in Social Sciences; (2004 – 2007)
Lecturer in Sociology, SOCSI (1998 – 2007)

Committees and reviewing

Cardiff University

2024 - present Director of the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS, ESRC DTP)

2010 - 2023 Pathway Convenor for Sociology (ESRC, Wales, DTP)

2016 - 2017 Director MSc Social Science Research Methods (SSRM), Cardiff University

2011 - 2014 Research Committee member, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences (2011/12 – 2013/14)

2011 – 2014, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences – Member of the Senior Management Team (SOCSI)

2009 - Member of Qualitative Methods Training and Capacity Building Committee - WISERD

2004 – 2007 Deputy Director of the Research and Graduate School in the Social Sciences (Cardiff University, RGS)

External

REF 2029 Panel Member (Sociology, 21)

REF 2021 Panel Member (Sociology, 21)

2015 - 2016, Member of Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (UK) Benchmarking Committee (Sociology) 2015/2016

2014 - present, Member of ISRF Digital Social Science Forum

I welcome PhD supervision in the areas of:

The emerging contours of digital societies
Ethnomethodology and the social life of methods and data
Social implications of disruptive digital technologies (e.g. social media, robotics, 3D printing, automation, A.I.)
Communication, talk and interaction
The sociology of art and design
Collaborative working and interdisciplinary practice
Decision-making and organisations

Current supervision

Betsi Doyle

Contact Details

[email protected]
+44 29208 75236

Fifteen REF sub-panel members for Cardiff University

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Professor William Housley PhD, DSc.Econ. FAcSS FLSW

Teams and roles for William Housley

Chair in Sociology

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