Role
Dr. Matthews, is a social scientist and epistemologist with years of experience advising doctoral candidates. His latest sole-authored book, Doing Good Social Science, was published by Routledge in April 2025. He co-edited Teaching with Sociological Imagination in Higher Education (Springer) and Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports (Palgrave Macmillan). He is currently leading the editorial team for The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Concussion and Brain Injuries, while also preparing the manuscript for his next book The Act of Social Theory. His most recent sole-authored academic contributions have focuses on challenging epistemological fictions at the core of social scientific analysis and outlining a clear moral leadership for social science.
Career overview
Dr. Matthews leads a group of scholars in developing, designing and doing distinctive and morally refined qualitative social science. They work in caring and considerate ways across various empirical worlds and are united around their commitment to excellence in methods and considered, rigorous, but never one-dimensional theoretical accounts of social life.
More information about his various contributions to academia are available here: https://www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/
Press expertise
- Philosophy of science
- Research methods
- Morality (lack of) in science
- Social theory