Introduction ~ Eurig Scandrett Section 1 ~ Publics Provocation I: Class, Gender and Identity: Axes of Structure and Difference in Subaltern Counter-Publics ~ Eurig Scandrett Mad peoples' history and identity: education in the construction of mad studies ~ Elaine Ballantyne, Kirsten Maclean, Shirley-anne Collie, Liz Deeming and Esther Fraser 'Seeing things differently': gender justice and counter-hegemony in higher education ~ Lesley Orr and Nel Whiting Domestic abuse survivors: public sociology and the risks of speaking out ~ Julie Young A Public Sociology for Post-industrial Fife ~ Paul Gilfillan Public Sociology and the invisibility of class ~ Eurig Scandrett Dialogue I ~ Eurig Scandrett and Paul Gilfillan Section 2 ~ Knowledge Provocation II: 'Really Useful' public sociology knowledge ~ Eurig Scandrett Crossing the Quadrant: Policy Research and Public Sociology ~ Jan Law Convergences between public sociology, feminist theory and the praxis for refugee and asylum-seeking integration in Scotland ~ Laura Lovin Young people, alcohol, dialogical methods ~ Emma Wood Knowledge generated through participatory research with children ~ Maria Giatsi Clausen English Last: Displaced Publics and Communicating Multilingually as Social Act and Art ~ Alison Phipps, Tawona Sithole, Naa Densua Tordzro and Gameli Tordzro The Construction, Role And Influence Of 'Public Knowledge' Within Community Planning Partnerships ~ Marion Ellison Dialogue II ~ Eurig Scandrett, Marion Ellison and Laura Lovin Section 3 ~ Practices Provocation III: Public Sociology Practices, Privatising Universities ~ Eurig Scandrett Precarity as an existential phenomenon within a post-industrial labour market ~ Phil Mignot and Ricky Gee Student - Public - Sociologist: On dialogue with our first public, and in widening access to higher education ~ Karl Johnson Experts by experience: Art, identity and the sociological imagination ~ John Docherty-Hughes, Elaine Addington, David Bradley, Linda Brookhouse. Jenny Bunting, Lorna Cosh, John Dane, Robert Lindsay and Christine Raffaelli Community engagement: cultivating critical awareness ~ Jim Crowther and Mae Shaw Reflections on five years of critical service learning: is it critical or are we social justice dreamers? ~ Sharon Hutchings and Andrea Lyons Lewis Trade unionism as collective education ~ Lena Wanggren Dialogue III ~ Eurig Scandrett, Jim Crowther, Sharon Hutchings, Karl Johnson, Mae Shaw, Lena Wanggren Conclusion ~ Eurig Scandrett