Stanley Blue

Current roles include:

• Discipline Lead - Sociology, Lancaster;
• Co-Director - Centre for Practice Theory at Lancaster;
• Editor - Journal of Practice Theory;
• Convenor - SOCL101: The Sociological Imagination.

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.

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

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).