Academic work

Essays to accompany shows of work by artists: Lloyd Corporation (Carlos/Ishikawa), Jo Spence & Alexis Hunter (Richard Saltoun Gallery), Laura Morrison & Maite Zabala (Void, Derry), Eoghan Ryan (South London Gallery), Roman Liska (Rod Barton), Simon Pope (Danielle Arnaud). 

2025   “Careful Whisper, Heart Feminism”. Pollock, A; Wakeford, N; Pittea, M. and Leach, A. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 11(2), https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/44763

2012     “Feel Tank: An Interview with Lauren Berlant” in Together in This/Sammen om Det? Tapir Akademisk, Trondheim, 26-32

2012     “The Nowness of Now” Essay to accompany Roman Liška NU BALANCE, Rob Barton Gallery, London 

2010     “Friendship” in Transmission Annual: Hospitality (Ed. Sharon Kivland) Artwords Press, London 74-5


Sociological research 1999-2016

Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social (Ed. with Celia Lury) London: Taylor and Francis, 2012

Work, Difference and the New Media Industries (Guest Ed.) Information, Communication and Society, 5 (1) January. London: Routledge, 2002 

Analyzing Virtual Societies: New Directions in Methodology (Ed. with Peter Lyman) American Behavioral Scientist, 43(3) November/December . Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications Inc, 1999


Selected articles and chapters

2016     “Don’t Go All The Way: Revisiting Misplaced Concretism” in Bowker, G. et al (eds.) Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working With Leigh Star Cambridge, MIT Press. 69-84

2014     “Everything is going on at the same time: The place of video in research installations” (with B. Hatzius) in Bates, C. (ed.) Video Methods: Social Science Research in Motion (Routledge Advances in Research Methods). London: Routledge

2014     “Number ecologies: numbers and numbering practices” (with S. Day & C. Lury) Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. Vol 15, Issue 2

2012     “The Creation of Affective Atmospheres” in Together in This/Sammen om Det? Tapir Akademisk, Trondheim, 18-25

2011     “Replacing the networked society with social foam: a revolution for corporate ethnography?” Proceedings of the 2011 Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, American Anthropological Association, 240-256

2008     “Fieldnotes in public: using blogs for research”. The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods. London: SAGE (with K. Cohen)

2006     “Using the Internet” (with Kate Orton-Johnson & Katrina Jungnickel) From Postgraduate to Social Scientist: A Guide to Key Skills Ed. Nigel Gilbert, London

2006     “Powerpoint and the Crafting of Social Data” Proceedings of the 2006 Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, American Anthropological Association, 94-108