The Labour Market Studies event at the University of Leicester welcomed distance learning students at Doctorate level to a series of talks, workshops and seminars (I hope I’ve got that right!). They’d travelled from all parts of the globe and were studying a range of diverse subjects – the Barbados banking system since 1974 stuck in my mind. The event also included a talk by Vice Chancellor Bob Burgess on ‘Exploring Ethnography’, which was a real treat for someone that read his books as part of Sociology ‘O’ level in the dim and distant past…