Interested in the experience of time during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Lyon, D and R Coleman (forthcoming, 2026) ‘Future-imagining from the pandemic present: rhythm and recalibration’ in L Roberts and A Grossman (eds) Post-pandemic imaginaries, London: Bloomsbury.

Carabelli, G and D Lyon (2025) ‘Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care’, The Sociological Review, 73(6), 1441-1459: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261251335747

Coleman, R, D Lyon and C Turner (2025) ‘Present feelings, feeling present: Liveness in research on time and feeling during the Covid-19 pandemic’, The Sociological Review, 73(5): 993-1014: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261251335445

van Emmerik, C, R Coleman, and D Lyon (2024) ‘Towards a minor sociology of futures: Shifting futures in Mass Observation accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic’, Journal of Sociology, 61(1): 176-192: https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241248672

Lyon, D (2023) ‘Teaching the sociology of time in a time of disruption (a strike and a pandemic)’, Time & Society, 1-12: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X231156322

Lyon, D and R Coleman (2023) ‘Rupture, repetition and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life and COVID-19’, History of the Human Sciences, 36(2): 26-48: https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221133983

Coleman, R and D Lyon (2023) ‘Recalibrating everyday futures during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Futures fissured, on standby and reset in Mass Observation Diaries’, Sociology, 57(2) 421-437: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231156651

Nash, L and Lyon, D (2023) ‘Work, boredom and rhythm in the time of COVID-19’, The Sociological Review, 71(3): 642-659: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221147749

van Emmerik, C, D Lyon and R Coleman (2022) Funny how time slips away: Pandemic diarists’ ‘swerving, shrinking, sticking’ horizons, The Sociological Review Magazine:  https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/march-2022/time/funny-how-time-slips-away/

Bailey, S, M Bastian, R Coleman, E Grabham, D Lyon and D Pierides (2020) ‘A Day at a Time: a research agenda to grasp the everyday experience of time in the COVID-19 pandemic’, Discover Society, COVID-19 Chronicles: https://archive.discoversociety.org/2020/09/15/a-day-at-a-time-a-research-agenda-to-grasp-the-everyday-experience-of-time-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Want to know more about rhythm?

Nash, L and Lyon, D (2023) ‘Work, boredom and rhythm in the time of COVID-19’, The Sociological Review, 71(3): 642-659: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221147749

Lyon, D and R Coleman (2023) ‘Rupture, repetition and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life and COVID-19’, History of the Human Sciences, 36(2): 26-48: https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221133983

Lyon, D (ed) (2022) Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance, Research in Urban Sociology, Volume 17, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

D Lyon (2020) ‘The role of rhythm in the production of ‘thick’ places’ in T Edensor, A Kalandides and U Kothari (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Place, Abingdon: Routledge.

Lyon, D (2020) ‘Sensing rhythm’ in H Holmes and S Hall (eds) Mundane Methods: Innovative ways to research the everyday, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Lyon, D (2019) What is Rhythmanalysis? London: Bloomsbury Academic. Republished (2021) as Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods, London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Lyon, D (2016) ‘Doing audio-visual montage to explore time and space: The everyday rhythms of Billingsgate Fish Market’ Sociological Research Online 21 (3), 12: https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3994 Winner of the 2017 Sage Prize for Innovation/ Excellence

How about fish?

Lyon, D (2023) ‘Global – and local - commodity circuits’ in Dirk Hofäcker & Christian Karner (eds) Research Handbook – The Sociology of Globalization, Aldershot: Edward Elgar.

D Lyon (2020) ‘The role of rhythm in the production of ‘thick’ places’ in T Edensor, A Kalandides and U Kothari (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Place, Abingdon: Routledge.

Lyon, D (2020) ‘Sensing rhythm’ in H Holmes and S Hall (eds) Mundane Methods: Innovative ways to research the everyday, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Lyon, D (2016) ‘Doing audio-visual montage to explore time and space: The everyday rhythms of Billingsgate Fish Market’ Sociological Research Online 21 (3), 12: https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3994

Bachis, F, D Lyon and F Tiragallo (2016) ‘The Passage of Fish’ (film, 15 mins, 19 secs), Journal of Video Ethnography, 5: https://vimeo.com/337731627 

Lyon, D (2016) ‘The everyday life of a fish market’ Discover Society, Issue 36: https://archive.discoversociety.org/2016/09/06/the-everyday-life-of-a-fish-market/

Lyon, D and L Back (2012), ‘Fish and fishmongers in a global city: socio-economy, craft, and social relations on a London market’, Sociological Research Online 17(2): 23: https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.2692

On young people’s imagined futures

Lyon, D and G Crow (2020) ‘Doing Qualitative Secondary Analysis: revisiting young people’s imagined futures in Ray Pahl’s Sheppey Studies’ in K Hughes and A Tarrant (eds) Qualitative Secondary Analysis, London: Sage.

Lyon, D (2017) ‘Time and place in memory and imagination on the Isle of Sheppey’ in G Crow and J Ellis (eds) Revisiting Divisions of Labour, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 

Carabelli, G and D Lyon (2016) ‘Young people’s orientations to the future: navigating the present and imagining the future’ Journal of Youth Studies, 19(8): 1110-27: https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2016.1145641

Lyon, D and G Carabelli (2016) ‘Researching Young People’s Orientations to the Future: The Methodological Challenges of Using Arts Practice’ Qualitative Research, 16(4): 430-45: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794115587393

Lyon, D and G Crow (2012) ‘The challenges and opportunities of re-studying community on Sheppey: young people’s imagined futures’, Sociological Review 60(3): 498-517: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02096.x

Lyon, D, B Morgan, and G Crow (2012) ‘Working with material from the Sheppey archive’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology 15(4): 301-309: https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2012.688314

The sociology of work – from care to careers 

Lyon, D (2012) ‘Researching Gender and Work: 30 years on from Women on the Line’ International Working Class History 81: 163-167: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547912000099

Cuzzocrea, V and D Lyon (2011) ‘Rethinking the concept of career: a sociological perspective’, Sociological Compass 5(12): 1029-1043: https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1751-9020.2011.00429.X

Lyon, D (2010) ‘Intersections and Boundaries of Work and Non-work: The Case of Elder Care in Comparative European Perspective’ European Societies 12(1): 1-23: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616690903100456

Lyon, D and M Glucksmann (2008) ‘Comparative Configurations of Care Work across Europe’ Sociology 42(1): 101-118: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038507084827

Passerini, L, D Lyon, E Capussotti and I Laliotou (eds) (2007) Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 

Lyon, D (2007) ‘Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrant Women in Italy’ International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 3(2): 44-56: https://doi.org/10.1108/17479894200700022

Glucksmann, M and D Lyon (2006) ‘Configurations of Care Work: Paid and Unpaid Elder Care in Italy and the Netherlands’ Sociological Research Online 11(2): https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.1398

Lyon, D (2006) ‘The Organisation of Care Work in Italy: Gender and Migrant Labor in the New Economy’ Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 13(1): 207-24: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol13/iss1/7/

Lyon, D and A Woodward (2004) ‘Gender, Time and the Top: Cultural Constructions of Time in High Level Careers and Homes’, European Journal of Women’s Studies 11(2): 205-21: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506804042096

Woodward, A and D Lyon (2000) ‘Gendered Time and Women’s Access to Power’, in M Vianello and G Moore (eds) Gendering Elites, Economic and Political Leadership in 27 Industrialised Countries, Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Some fun stuff

Lyon, D (2026) ‘The rhythms of walking and doing sociology’ in C Bates and E Jackson (eds) Walking, a sociological fieldguide, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Lyon, D (2026) ‘The materiality of failure’ in M Cano & R García-Periago (eds) Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia, London: Bloomsbury.

Lyon, D (2012) ‘The labour of refurbishment: The building and the body in space and time’ in S Pink, D Tutt and A Dainty (eds) Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry, London: Taylor and Francis.