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Les Back

Professor of Sociology
Les Back teaches sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of numerous books on popular culture, racism multiculturalism and city life. He also writes journalism and has made documentary films.
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in Community Goldsmiths Press

Academic Diary

by Les Back
Published: Apr 30, 2018
Or Why Higher Education Still Matters
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Videos

by Les Back
Published: Aug 28, 2018
Professor Les Back reading from Academic Diary
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Preface

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Introduction: Academic/Time

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Autumn Term/ 10 September Graduation

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

15 September: Everyone Has a Teacher Story

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

17 September: Letter to a New Student

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

20 September: Welcome Week

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

25 September: Goldsmiths and its District

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

27 September: Ratology

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

28 September: Students Not Suspects

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

7 October: Open Day

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

12 October: Stuart Hall Lessons

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

25 October: Teaching

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

31 October: The Uses of Literacy Today

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

5 November: Death by Powerpoint

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

8 November: The Value in Academic Writing

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

20 November: Research Expenses

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

27 November: Extra Curricular

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

29 November: College Green

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

3 December: Meeting John Berger

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

9 December: An Education of Sorts

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

10 December: Class Mobility

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

17 December: Bourdieu Behind Bars

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

29 December: New Year’s Honours

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Spring Term/ 10 January: The Diary Disease

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

16 January: Remembering Paul

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

18 January: Recognition

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

25 January: Holding the Fort

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

5 February: Academic Uses and Abuses of Twitter

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

12 February: Generosity as a Strategy for Survival

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

26 February: Professionals and Amateurs

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

7 March: Reading and Remembering

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

10 March: Campus Watch

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

15 March: Writing Routines and the Torture of Starting

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

21 March: That Special Pen

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

1 April: Viral Warning

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

10 April: Ivory Towers

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

16 April: Conference Etiquette

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

19 April: Academic Rights

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

20 April: Casts of Mind

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

27 April: The Devil You Know

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

2 May: Supervision

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

9 May: Thinking Together

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

16 May: The Doublethink of Open Access

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

20 May: Against Intellectual Suicide

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

The Summer/ 7 June: Silence Please – Exam in Progress

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

9 June: The Exam Board

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

14 June: On the Occasion of Retirement

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

20 June: The Writer’s Desk

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

30 June: The Library Angel

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

4 July: The PhD Viva

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

17 July: Writing and Scholastic Style

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

24 July: ‘And What Do You Do for a Living . . .?’

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

19 August: Primo Levi’s House

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

31 August: Lost Notebook

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Afterword: How the Diary Came to Be Written in the First Place

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Tips, Leads, and Follow-ups

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Campus Fictions

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Students, Learning and Teaching

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

On Writing and Writers

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Intellectual Life and its Purpose

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Heroes and Heroines

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
in Community Goldsmiths Press

Music as a Hinterland

by Les Back
Published: Jul 09, 2019
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