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Dr Stanley Blue

Senior Lecturer

Stanley Blue

Bowland North

LA1 4YL

Lancaster

Tel: +44 1524 595113

PhD supervision

I would be happy to work with students whose projects relate to my research interests, including work on theories of practice, time, space, rhythm, materiality, embodiment, habit, consumption, demand, mobility, energy, travel, and public health, smoking, obesity, and exercise.

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Current Research

My research is at the intersection of practice theory and the philosophy of process, with a particular interest in time, social organisation, and the transformation of everyday life. I have developed these ideas in relation to the sociology of consumption, with empirical work focused on areas that include energy demand and public health.

My monograph Practice Theory and Process Philosophy: Towards a Sociology of Becoming is forthcoming with Routledge in September (2025), and I am also a co-author with Elizabeth Shove and Mike Kelly of a forthcoming (in press) book entitled Practice Theory and the Biosocial: Microbes, Matter, and Milieu, Berghahn.

Looking ahead, my research continues to explore the implications of practice and process thinking for public health - particularly in relation to the organisation and transformation of what are often referred to as non-communicable diseases.

For more information on my current and past projects, publications, talks, and engagement work, please visit my Personal Website.

Web Links

You can find links to my recent papers and projects; initatives I'm involved in, and various profiles here: LINKS.

Additional Information

Academic collaborations include:

Editor, Journal of Practice Theory (2024 - present);

Co-Director, Centre for Practice Theory at Lancaster (2021-present);

Co-I, Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (2018-2023);

Research Fellow, DEMAND Centre, Lancaster University (2015-2017);

Affiliated with the Norah Fry Institute at the University of Bristol (2015-2017);

Visiting Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT, Melbourne (Oct-Dec 2016);

Member of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester (2013-2015).

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