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Dick Hobbs

Jim Riley

4th December 2009

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I’m an examiner - in recovery.

Just because his book is pretty popular, here are a couple of links to interviews with Dick Hobbs. Sorry to those already familiar with them, but I think they give a useful insight into the background and interests of this well known Sociologist.

ESRC Society Today

Guardian

And perhaps - as my posting on PO seems to have been very popular, I’d better get working and do a presentation on PO. Consider it in the pipeline. I’ll see if I can dig out some alternative examples of PO - the standard studies invariably get a bit tedious once they’ve been repeated ad nauseam.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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