Roger Burrows

Roger Burrows joined the Department in January 2012 from the Department of Sociology at the University of York. Prior to York he had worked at the University of Teesside, the University of Surrey, LSE and, what is now, the University of East London. His background is in sociology, social policy and urban studies. He is a methodological pluralist but has made extensive use of quantitative methods in his work. He was the coordinator of the ESRC e-Society Research programme between 2005-2008.

Academic qualifications

Elected, Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences (AcSS) (from 2011-)

MSc Social Research Methods, University of Surrey, 1984

BSc Economics, Sociology and Statistics, University of Surrey, 1983

Teaching

He will be teaching across a range of courses, but primarily in social research methods and urban studies.

Areas of supervision

He has supervised 12 students to completion of their PhDs. He is particularly interested in working with research students on empirical projects in the areas of: housing and urban studies; social media and social informatics; and social and cultural geography. He is also keen to supervise students on any topic that involves the use of the secondary analysis of large scale data sets, visualisation methodologies or the analysis of transactional data.

Research interests

His current research interests are in: urban sociology; social media; the social life of methods; and the public life of data. He is currently developing specific projects on: Metrics, Software and Algorithmic Power in the Contemporary Academy; the Sociology of the Super-Rich ‘Communities’ in London; and Mobility, Globalization and Belonging in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He is the author, co-author or editor of over 120 articles, chapters, books and reports.

Selected publications

Publications by Roger Burrows by Theme: Economic Sociology; Health and Illness; Housing and Urban Studies; Methods and Methodology; Social Media; and Social Policy

Economic Sociology

Curran, J. and Burrows, R. ‘The Sociology of Petit Capitalism: A Trend Report’ Sociology, 20, 2, 265-279, 1986

Curran, J. and Burrows, R. ‘The Social Analysis of Small Businesses: Some Emerging Themes’ in R. Goffee and R. Scase (eds) Entrepreneurship in Europe: The Social Processes, London: Croom Helm, 164-191, 1987

Curran, J. and Burrows, R. ‘Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of the Small Business Owner’ in K. O'Neill, R. Bhambri, T. Faulkner and T. Cannon (eds) Small Business Development: Some Current Issues, Aldershot: Avebury, 3-24, 1987

Burrows, R. and Butler, T. ‘Middle Mass and the Pit: A Critical Review of Peter Saunders’ Sociology of Consumption’, Sociological Review, 37, 2, 338-364, 1989

Burrows, R. and Curran, J. ‘Sociological Research on Service Sector Small Enterprises: Some Conceptual Considerations’, Work, Employment and Society, 3, 4, 527-539, 1989

Curran, J. and Burrows, R. ‘National Profiles of the Self-Employed’, Employment Gazette, 97, 7, 376-385, 1989

Burrows, R. ‘Who are the Contemporary British Petty Bourgeoisie?’ International Small Business Journal, 9, 2, 1-15, 1991

Burrows, R. (ed) Deciphering the Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship, Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain, London: Routledge, pp. 205, 1991

Burrows, R. ‘Entrepreneurship, Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain’ in R. Burrows (ed) Deciphering the Enterprise Culture, London: Routledge, London, 1-16, 1991

Burrows, R. ‘A Socio-Economic Anatomy of the British Petty Bourgeoisie’ in R. Burrows (ed) Deciphering the Enterprise Culture, London: Routledge,  53-73, 1991

Burrows, R. ‘The Restructuring of Britain and the Discourse of the Enterprise Culture: A Polemical Contribution’ in J. Curran and R. Blackburn (eds) Paths of Enterprise: the Future of Small Business, London: Routledge, 17-33, 1991

Burrows, R. and Curran, J. ‘Not Such a Small Business: Reflections on the Rhetoric, the Reality and the Future of the Enterprise Culture’ in M. Cross and G. Payne (eds) Work and the Enterprise Culture, Brighton: Falmer Press, 9-29, 1991

Burrows, R. and Chell, E. ‘The Small Business Owner-Manager’ in J. Stanworth and C. Gray (eds) Bolton 20 Years On: Small Firms in the 1990s, London: Paul Chapman, 151-77, 1991

Burrows, R. and Marsh, C. ‘Consumption, Class and Contemporary Sociology’ in R. Burrows and C. Marsh (eds) Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1-14, 1992

Burrows, R., Gilbert G.N. and Pollert, A.‘Fordism, Post-Fordism and Economic Flexibility’ in G.N. Gilbert, R. Burrows and A. Pollert (eds) Fordism  and Flexibility: Divisions and Change, Basingstoke: Macmillan,  1-9, 1992

Burrows, R. and Marsh, C. (eds) Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 255, 1992

Gilbert, G.N., Burrows, R. and Pollert, A. (eds) Fordism and Flexibility: Divisions and Change, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 195, 1992, translated into Japanese in 1999

Curran, J. and Burrows, R. ‘Shifting the Focus: Problems and Approaches in Studying the Small Enterprise in the Services Sector’ in R. Atkin, C. Mason and E. Chell (eds) New Directions in Small Business Research, Aldershot: Avebury, 177-191, 1993

Burrows, R. and Ford, J. ‘Self-Employment and Home Ownership after the Enterprise Culture’, Work, Employment and Society, 21, 1, 97-119, 1998

Health and Illness

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘From Bodies in Hospitals to People in the Community: A Theoretical Analysis of the Relocation of Health Care’, Care in Place: the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1, 2, 93-103, 1994

Burrows, R., Bunton, R., Muncer, S. and Gillen, K. ‘The Efficacy of Health Promotion, Health Economics and Late Modernism’, Health Education Research: Theory and Practice, 10, 2, 241-249, 1995

Burrows, R. and Nettleton, S. ‘Going Against the Grain: Smoking and “Heavy” Drinking Amongst the British Middle Classes’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 17, 5, 668-680, 1995

Bunton, R., Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. (eds) The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk, London: Routledge, pp. 253, 1995

Burrows, R., Nettleton, S. and Bunton, R. ‘Sociology and Health Promotion: Health, Risk and Consumption under Late Modernism’ in R. Bunton, S. Nettleton and R. Burrows (eds) The Sociology of Health Promotion London: Routledge, 1-12, 1995

Bunton, R. and Burrows, R. ‘Consumption and Health in the “Epidemiological” Clinic of Late Modern Medicine’ in R. Bunton, S. Nettleton and R. Burrows (eds) The Sociology of Health Promotion London: Routledge, 206-222, 1995

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘If Health Promotion is Everybody’s Business what is the Fate of the Health Promotion Specialist?’ Sociology of Health and Illness, 19, 1, 23-47, 1997

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘“Knit Your Own Without a Pattern”: Health Promotion and the Internal Market’, Social Policy and Administration, 31, 2, 191-201, 1997

Burrows, R. and Nettleton, S. ‘Women’s Smoking in the Employers and Managers Socio-Economic Group’, Health Promotion International, 12, 3, 209-214, 1997

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: an Exploratory Analysis’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 20, 5, 735-757, 1998

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘Individualization Processes and Social Policy: Insecurity, Reflexivity and Risk in the Restructuring of Contemporary Health and Housing Policies’ in J. Carter (ed) Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare London: Routledge, 153-167, 1998

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘Home Ownership and Health in the United Kingdom’ in A. Petersen and C. Waddell (eds) Health Matters: A Sociology of Illness, Prevention and Care, Buckingham: Open University Press, 308-319, 1998

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘When a Capital Investment Becomes an Emotional Loss: the Health Consequences of the Experience of Mortgage Possession’, Housing Studies, 15, 3, 463-479, 2000

Muncer, S., Burrows, R., Pleace, N., Loader, B. and Nettleton, S. ‘Births, Deaths, Sex and Marriage...But Very Few Presents? A Case Study of Social Support in Cyberspace’, Critical Public Health, 18, 1, 1-18, 2000

Pleace, N., Burrows, R., Loader, B., Muncer, S. and Nettleton, S.  ‘On-Line with the Friends of Bill W: Problem Drinkers, the Internet and Self Help’ Sociological Research On-Line, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/5/2/pleace.html, 2000

Muncer, S, Loader, B., Burrows, R., Pleace, N. and Nettleton, S ‘Form and Structure of Newsgroups Giving Social Support: A Network Approach’ Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 3, 6, 1017-1029, 2000

Pleace, N., Burrows, R., Loader, B., Muncer, S. and Nettleton, S. ‘From Self-Service Welfare to Virtual Self-Help?’ in E. Harlow and S. Webb (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in the Welfare Services London: Jessica Kingsley, 183-197, 2000

Pleace, N., Burrows, R., Nettleton, S., Loader, B. and Muncer, S. ‘A Safety Net? Some Reflections on the Emergence of Virtual Social Support’ in L. Keeble and B. Loader (eds) Community Informatics: Computer Mediated Social Networks London: Routledge, 71-85, 2001

Burrows, R. and Nettleton, S. ‘Reflexive Modernization and the Emergence of Wired Self Help’ in K. A. Renninger and W. Shumar (eds) Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, New York: Cambridge University Press, 249-268, 2002

Nettleton, S., Burrows, R. , Pleace, N.,  Muncer, S. and Loader, B ‘The Reality of Virtual Social Support’ in S. Woolgar (ed) Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality Oxford: Oxford University Press, 176-188, 2002

Craigie, M., Muncer, S., Loader, B. and Burrows, R. ‘Reliability of Health Information on the Net: An Examination of Experts’ Ratings’ Journal of Medical Internet Research, 4, 1 www.jmir.org/2002/1/e2/, 2002

Loader, B., Muncer, S., Burrows, R., Nettleton, S. and Pleace, N. ‘Medicine on the Line? Computer Mediated Social Support and Advice for People with Diabetes’ International Journal of Social Welfare, 11, 1, 53-65, 2002

British Medical Association (BMA) [contributory author] Housing and Health: Building for the Future London: BMA, pp.80, 2003

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘E-scaped Medicine? Information, Reflexivity and Health’ Critical Social Policy, 23, 2, 165-185, 2003

Nettleton, S., Burrows, R., O'Malley, L. and Watt, I ‘Health e-Types? An Analysis of the Everyday Use of the Internet for Health', Information, Communication and Society, 7, 4, 531-553, 2005

Nettleton, S., Burrows, R. and O’Malley, L. ‘The Mundane Realities of the Lay Use of the Internet for Health and their Consequences for Media Convergence’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 27, 7, 972-992, 2005

Nettleton, S., Burrows, R. and Watt, I. ‘Regulating Medical Bodies? An Analysis of Doctors’ Accounts of the Consequences of the “Modernization” of the NHS for the Disembodiment of Clinical Knowledge’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 30, 3, 333–348, 2008

Nettleton, S., Burrows, R. and Watt, I. ‘How do you Feel Doctor? An Analysis of Emotional Aspects of Routine Professional Medical Work’, Social Theory and Health, 6, 1, 18-36, 2008

Watt, I., Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘The Views of Doctors on their Working Lives: A Qualitative Study’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 101, 592–597, 2008

Kerr, A., Woods, B, Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘Testing for Food Intolerance: New Markets in the Age of Biocapital’, BioSocieties: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Social Studies of Life Sciences, 4, 1, 3-24, 2009

Nettleton, S., Woods, B., Burrows, R. and Kerr, A. ‘Food Allergy and Intolerance: Towards a Sociological Agenda’ Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 13, 6, 647-664, 2009

Nettleton, S., Woods, B., Burrows, R. and Kerr, A. ‘Experiencing Food Allergy and Food Intolerance: An Analysis of Lay Accounts, Sociology, 44, 2, 289-305, 2010

Methods and Methodology

Burrows, R. ‘Some Notes Towards a Realistic Realism: the Practical Implications of Realist Philosophies of Science for Social Research Methods’, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 9, 4, 47-64, 1989

Savage, M. and Burrows, R. ‘The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology’, Sociology, 41, 5, 885-899, 2007

Savage, M. and Burrows, R. ‘Wither the survey?’ International Journal of Market Research, 50, 3, 305-307, 2008

Uprichard, E., Burrows, R. and Byrne, D. ‘SPSS as an Inscription Device: From Causality to Description?’ Sociological Review, 56, 4, 606-622, 2008

Hardey, M. and Burrows, R. ‘Cartographies of Knowing Capitalism and the Changing Jurisdiction of Empirical Sociology’ in N. Fielding, R.M. Lee and G. Blank (eds) The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods London: Sage, 507-518, 2008

Savage, M. and Burrows, R. ‘Some Further Reflections on the Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology’, Sociology, 43, 4, 765–775, 2009

Kelly, A. and Burrows, R. ‘Measuring the Value of Sociology? Some Notes on the Performative Metricisation of the Contemporary Academy’ in L. Adkins and C. Lury (eds) Measure and Value: A Sociological Review Monograph Oxford: Wily-Blackwells. Forthcoming 2011

Burrows, R. ‘Visualisation, Digitalisation and the “Descriptive Turn” in Contemporary Sociology’ in I. Heywood and B. Sandywell (eds) The Handbook of Visual Culture London: Berg. Forthcoming, 2011

Burrows, R. ‘Living with the H-Index? Metrics, Markets and Affect in the Contemporary Academy’, Sociological Review, Forthcoming 2012

Housing and Urban Studies

Burrows, R., Pleace, N. and Quilgars, D. (eds) Homelessness and Social Policy, London: Routledge, pp. 288, 1997

Pleace, N., Burrows, R. and Quilgars, D. ‘Homelessness in Contemporary Britain: Issues of Conceptualisation and Measurement’ in R. Burrows, N. Pleace and D. Quilgars (eds) Homelessness and Social Policy London: Routledge, 1-18, 1997

Burrows, R. ‘The Social Distribution of the Experience of Homelessness’ in R. Burrows, N. Pleace  and D. Quilgars (eds) Homelessness and Social Policy London: Routledge, 50-68, 1997

Burrows, R. and Rhodes, D. Unpopular Places? Area Disadvantage and the Geography of Misery Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 66, 1997

Burrows, R. ‘Cyberpunk as Social Theory: William Gibson and the Sociological Imagination’ in S. Westwood and J. Williams (eds) Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories London: Routledge, 235-248, 1997

Burrows, R. ‘Virtual Culture, Urban Social Polarisation and Social Science Fiction’ in B. Loader (ed) The Governance of Cyberspace London: Routledge, 38-45, 1997

Burrows, R. ‘Mortgage Indebtedness in England: An “Epidemiology”’ Housing Studies, 13, 1, 5-22, 1998

Burrows, R. and Ford, J. ‘Self-Employment and Home Ownership after the Enterprise Culture’, Work, Employment and Society, 21, 1, 97-119, 1998

Burrows, R., Ford, J., Quilgars, D. and Pleace, N. ‘A Place in the Country? The Housing Circumstances of Young People in Rural England’, Journal of Youth Studies, 1, 2, 177-194, 1998

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: an Exploratory Analysis’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 20, 5, 735-757, 1998

Burrows, R. ‘The Geography of Neighbourhood Dissatisfaction’, Rising East: the Journal of East London Studies, 2, 3, 100-121, 1998

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘Individualization Processes and Social Policy: Insecurity, Reflexivity and Risk in the Restructuring of Contemporary Health and Housing Policies’ in J. Carter (ed) Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare London: Routledge, 153-167, 1998

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘Home Ownership and Health in the United Kingdom’ in A. Petersen and C. Waddell (eds) Health Matters: A Sociology of Illness, Prevention and Care, Buckingham: Open University Press, 308-319, 1998

Burrows, R. ‘Residential Mobility and Residualisation in Social Housing in England’, Journal of Social Policy, 28, 1, 27-52, 1999

Ford, J. and Burrows, R. ‘The Costs of Unsustainable Home Ownership in Britain’, Journal of Social Policy, 28, 2, 305-330, 1999

Rugg, J. and Burrows, R. ‘Setting the Context: Young People and Housing’ in J. Rugg (ed) Young People, Housing and Social Policy London: Routledge, 1-16, 1999

Ford, J. and Burrows, R. ‘To Buy Or Not to Buy? A Home of One’s Own’ in R. Jowell, J. Curtice, A. Park and K. Thomson (eds) British Social Attitudes: The 16th Report: Who Shares New Labour Values? Aldershot: Ashgate, 97-112, 1999

Nettleton, S. Burrows, R., England, J. and Seavers, J. Losing the Family Home: Understanding the Social Consequences of Mortgage Repossession, York: York Publishing Services, pp. 56, 1999

Burrows, R. and Wilcox, S. Half the Poor: Home Owners with Low Incomes London: Council of Mortgage Lenders, pp. 88, 2000

Burrows, R. and Rhodes, D. ‘Hitting the Target? Area Disadvantage, Social Exclusion and the Geography of Misery in England ’ in I. Anderson and D. Sim (ed) Social Exclusion and Housing: Context, Critiques and Challenges London: Chartered Institute of Housing, 58-80, 2000

Burrows, R. and Rhodes, D. ‘The Geography of Misery: Area Disadvantage and Patterns of Neighbourhood Dissatisfaction in England’ in J. Bradshaw and R. Sainsbury (eds) Researching Poverty Aldershot: Ashgate, 191-213, 2000

Burrows, R., Ford, J. and Wilcox, S. ‘Half the Poor? Policy Responses to Low Income Home Ownership’ in S. Wilcox (ed) Housing Finance Review 2000/2001 York: Chartered Institute of Housing, Council of Mortgage Lenders and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 12-20, 2000

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘When a Capital Investment Becomes an Emotional Loss: the Health Consequences of the Experience of Mortgage Possession’, Housing Studies, 15, 3, 463-479, 2000

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘Families Coping with the Experience of Mortgage Repossession in the “New Landscape of Precariousness”’ Community, Work and Family, 4, 3, 253-272, 2001

Ford, J., Burrows, R. and Nettleton, S. Home Ownership in a Risk Society: A Social Analysis of Mortgage Arrears and Possessions Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 202, 2001

Ford, J., Rugg, J. and Burrows, R. ‘Conceptualising the Contemporary Role of Housing in the Transition to Adult Life in England’, Urban Studies, 39, 13, 2455-2467, 2002

Burrows, R. ‘How the Other Half Lives? An Exploratory Analysis of Poverty and Home Ownership in Britain’, Urban Studies, 40, 7, 1223-1242, 2003

Burrows, R.  Poverty and Home Ownership in Contemporary Britain Bristol: Policy Press, pp.37, 2003

Quilgars, D., Burrows, R. and Wright, K. Refugee Housing and Neighbourhood Issues: A Scoping Review A Report to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, pp.40, 2004

Ford, J., Quilgars, D., Burrows, R. and Rhodes, D. Risk, Home Owners and Safety Nets: MPPI and Beyond, London: ODPM, pp. 116, 2004

Wilcox, S. and Burrows, R. Low Income Home Owners in Wales York: York Publishing Services, pp.41, 2004

Rugg, J., Ford, J. and Burrows, R. ‘Housing Advantage? The Role of Student Renting in the Construction of Housing Biographies’, Journal of Youth Studies, 7, 1, 19-34, 2004

Ford, J., Quilgars, D., Burrows, R. and Rhodes, D. ‘Widening the mortgage safety-net; some questions of effectiveness’ Benefits: A Journal of Social Security Research, Policy and Practice, 12, 2, 95-101, 2004

Burrows, R. and Ellison, N. ‘Sorting Places Out? Towards a Social Politics of Neighbourhood Informatisation’ Information, Communication and Society, 7, 3, 321-336, 2004

Burrows, R., Ellison, N. and Woods, B. Neighbourhoods on the Net: Internet-Based Neighbourhood Information Systems and their Consequences Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 46, 2005.

Burrows, R. and Gane, N. ‘Geodemographics, Software and Class’, Sociology, 40, 5, 793-812, 2006

Parker, S., Uprichard, E. and Burrows, R. ‘Class Places and Place Classes: Geodemographics and the Spatialization of Class’, Information, Communication and Society, 10, 6, 901-920, 2007

Ellison, N. and Burrows, R. ‘New Spaces of (Dis)engagement? Social Politics, Urban Technologies and the Rezoning of the City’, Housing Studies, 22, 3, 299-316, 2007

Burrows, R. ‘Geodemographics and the Construction of Differentiated Neighbourhoods’ in J. Flint and D. Robinson (eds) Cohesion in Crisis? New Dimensions of Diversity and Difference Bristol: Policy Press, 219-237, 2008

Burrows, R. ‘Urban Informatics and Social Ontology’ in M. Foth (ed) Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI, 450-454, 2009

Uprichard, E., Burrows, R. and Parker, S. ‘Geodemographic Code and the Production of Space’, Environment and Planning A, 41, 12, 2823 – 2835, 2009

Burrows, R. ‘The Geodemographics of Elective Belonging’, Housing, Theory and Society, 27, 2, 145-150, 2010

Penfold-Mounce, R., Beer, D. and Burrows, R. ‘The Wire as Social Science Fiction?’ Sociology, 45, 1, 152-167, 2011

Burrows, R. ‘Area Based Classification Systems’ in N. Thrift, A. Tickell and S. Woolgar (eds) Globalisation in Practice Oxford: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2011

Burrows, R. and Beer, D. ‘Rethinking Space: Urban Informatics and the Sociological Imagination’ in Prior, N. and Orton-Johnson, K. (eds) Rethinking Sociology in the Digital Age Basingstoke: Palgrave. Forthcoming, 2012

Social Media

Featherstone, M. and Burrows, R. ‘Cultures of Technological Embodiment’, Body & Society, 1, 3/4, 1-19, 1995

Featherstone, M. and Burrows, R. (eds) Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/ Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment, London: Sage, pp. 280, 1995. An Italian edition was published in 1999. A Croatian translation was published in 2002

Burrows, R. ‘Cyberpunk as Social Theory: William Gibson and the Sociological Imagination’ in S. Westwood and J. Williams (eds) Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories London: Routledge, 235-248, 1997

Burrows, R. ‘Virtual Culture, Urban Social Polarisation and Social Science Fiction’ in B. Loader (ed) The Governance of Cyberspace London: Routledge, 38-45, 1997

Burrows, R., Nettleton, S., Pleace, N., Loader, B. and Muncer, S. ‘Virtual Community Care? Social Policy and the Emergence of Computer Mediated Social Support’, Information, Communication and Society, 3, 1, 95-121, 2000

Muncer, S., Burrows, R., Pleace, N., Loader, B. and Nettleton, S. ‘Births, Deaths, Sex and Marriage...But Very Few Presents? A Case Study of Social Support in Cyberspace’, Critical Public Health, 18, 1, 1-18, 2000

Pleace, N., Burrows, R., Loader, B., Muncer, S. and Nettleton, S.  ‘On-Line with the Friends of Bill W: Problem Drinkers, the Internet and Self Help’ Sociological Research On-Line, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/5/2/pleace.html, 2000

Muncer, S, Loader, B., Burrows, R., Pleace, N. and Nettleton, S ‘Form and Structure of Newsgroups Giving Social Support: A Network Approach’ Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 3, 6, 1017-1029, 2000

Pleace, N., Burrows, R., Loader, B., Muncer, S. and Nettleton, S. ‘From Self-Service Welfare to Virtual Self-Help?’ in E. Harlow and S. Webb (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in the Welfare Services London: Jessica Kingsley, 183-197, 2000

Pleace, N., Burrows, R., Nettleton, S., Loader, B. and Muncer, S. ‘A Safety Net? Some Reflections on the Emergence of Virtual Social Support’ in L. Keeble and B. Loader (eds) Community Informatics: Computer Mediated Social Networks London: Routledge, 71-85, 2001

Burrows, R. and Nettleton, S. ‘Reflexive Modernization and the Emergence of Wired Self Help’ in K. A. Renninger and W. Shumar (eds) Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, New York: Cambridge University Press, 249-268, 2002

Nettleton, S., Burrows, R. , Pleace, N.,  Muncer, S. and Loader, B ‘The Reality of Virtual Social Support’ in S. Woolgar (ed) Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality Oxford: Oxford University Press, 176-188, 2002

Craigie, M., Muncer, S., Loader, B. and Burrows, R. ‘Reliability of Health Information on the Net: An Examination of Experts’ Ratings’ Journal of Medical Internet Research, 4, 1 www.jmir.org/2002/1/e2/, 2002

Loader, B., Muncer, S., Burrows, R., Nettleton, S. and Pleace, N. ‘Medicine on the Line? Computer Mediated Social Support and Advice for People with Diabetes’ International Journal of Social Welfare, 11, 1, 53-65, 2002

Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. ‘E-scaped Medicine? Information, Reflexivity and Health’ Critical Social Policy, 23, 2, 165-185, 2003

Burrows, R. and Ellison, N. ‘Sorting Places Out? Towards a Social Politics of Neighbourhood Informatisation’ Information, Communication and Society, 7, 3, 321-336, 2004

Burrows, R., Ellison, N. and Woods, B. Neighbourhoods on the Net: Internet-Based Neighbourhood Information Systems and their Consequences Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 46, 2005.

Nettleton, S., Burrows, R., O'Malley, L. and Watt, I ‘Health e-Types? An Analysis of the Everyday Use of the Internet for Health', Information, Communication and Society, 7, 4, 531-553, 2005

Nettleton, S., Burrows, R. and O’Malley, L. ‘The Mundane Realities of the Lay Use of the Internet for Health and their Consequences for Media Convergence’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 27, 7, 972-992, 2005

Burrows, R. and Gane, N. ‘Geodemographics, Software and Class’, Sociology, 40, 5, 793-812, 2006

Parker, S., Uprichard, E. and Burrows, R. ‘Class Places and Place Classes: Geodemographics and the Spatialization of Class’, Information, Communication and Society, 10, 6, 901-920, 2007

Beer, D. and Burrows, R. ‘Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations’ Sociological Research Online, www.socresonline.org.uk/12/5/17.html, 2007

Hardey, M. and Burrows, R. ‘Cartographies of Knowing Capitalism and the Changing Jurisdiction of Empirical Sociology’ in N. Fielding, R.M. Lee and G. Blank (eds) The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods London: Sage, 507-518, 2008

Burrows, R. ‘Geodemographics and the Construction of Differentiated Neighbourhoods’ in J. Flint and D. Robinson (eds) Cohesion in Crisis? New Dimensions of Diversity and Difference Bristol: Policy Press, 219-237, 2008

Burrows, R. ‘Urban Informatics and Social Ontology’ in M. Foth (ed) Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI, 450-454, 2009

Uprichard, E., Burrows, R. and Parker, S. ‘Geodemographic Code and the Production of Space’, Environment and Planning A, 41, 12, 2823 – 2835, 2009

Beer, D. and Burrows, R. ‘Consumption, Prosumption and Participatory Web Cultures: An Introduction’ Special Issue of Journal of Consumer Culture, 10, 1: 1–10, 2010

Beer, D. and Burrows, R. ‘The Sociological Imagination as Popular Culture’ in J. Burnett, S. Jeffers and G. Thomas (eds) New Social Connections: Sociology’s Subjects and Objects Basingstoke: Palgrave, 233-251, 2010                 

Burrows, R. and Beer, D. ‘Rethinking Space: Urban Informatics and the Sociological Imagination’ in Prior, N. and Orton-Johnson, K. (eds) Rethinking Sociology in the Digital Age Basingstoke: Palgrave. Forthcoming, 2012

Beer, D. and Burrows, R. ‘Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data’, Theory, Culture & Society, Forthcoming 2012

Social Policy

Burrows, R. and Loader, B. (eds) Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State? London: Routledge, pp. 254, 1994

Loader, B. and Burrows, R. ‘Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State? Socio-Economic Restructuring, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare’ in R. Burrows and B. Loader (eds) Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State? London: Routledge, 1-10, 1994

Bradshaw, N., Bradshaw, J. and Burrows, R. ‘Area Variations in the Prevalence of Lone Parent Families in England and Wales’, Regional Studies, 30, 8, 823-827, 1996

Burrows, R., Pleace, N. and Quilgars, D. (eds) Homelessness and Social Policy, London: Routledge, pp. 288, 1997

Burrows, R., Nettleton, S., Pleace, N., Loader, B. and Muncer, S. ‘Virtual Community Care? Social Policy and the Emergence of Computer Mediated Social Support’, Information, Communication and Society, 3, 1, 95-121, 2000

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