Just spent a while looking for a photo from a missing person search for a talk I’m giving next week. This. This was the photo…
Fortunately, there’s more in the detail* of the account that goes with it!

#ethnography
#fieldwork

Definitely struggling with the cold winter here. Bring a coat!

#IIEMCA27

First visit to the Wits campus. A real honour to be Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Community Development until 2028.

What a great first day in Johannesburg!
Already looking forward to
#IIEMCA27
@iiemca27.bsky.social

Holding the actual thing felt a bit special.
There’s just so much care gone in to this and it shows in the introductory chapters.

#emca

When you submit your carefully formatted ms to the publisher

Vs

When the proofs come back

Sewing some EM seeds at Paderborn University and the centre for Constructing Explainability
#EMCA

Congratulations to my dear Finnish colleagues for living in the happiest country in the world, again! 🇫🇮

Strong “spend the cash before April” vibes in the civic centre…

The “Cities and Mobilities” students engaged in the work of producing place and animating the map by following a tourist trail around Cardiff. It threw up some really nice practices of coordination, orientation, and discovery.

#MScSociology

The sketch maps tutorial is always a favourite session of mine. Chiasmatic reflexivity in action.

I also think we had a first today…One group managed to very successfully and accurately follow a map to a completely wrong destination.

#EMCA

I’ve started running again after a way too long lay off (for various reasons). It’s so good to be back and feels like rediscovering a part of myself. I could barely run at all at the start of year, and it’s amazing seeing how the body adapts.
The world always seems a little better from up high…

Doing tutorial exercises on instructed action with 250+ students is a bit of a challenge, but I think we got there…

#emca

Couldn’t resist joining in with the book shelf snaps. Mundane Reason hasn’t been mentioned yet. Absolute classic, but hard to find.
(And, yes, I need to tidy up… but this is a working collection!)

We don’t do inaugural lectures at Cardiff but it was really nice to be able to talk with colleagues today about categorisation practices, gestalt contexture, and analysing possible descriptions.
#EMCA

Thought I’d give the baby and mommy a rest when introducing MCA tomorrow…
#EMCA

If we’re at the sharing cat pictures stage of the culture, here’s ours… 🤦‍♂️

Yesterday was a long day of assessing trainees navigation skills in the morning, followed by a call-out in the evening.
One day, I’ll be writing a book about this…
#mountainrescue #fieldwork