Welcome to my personal website. I’m Professor Richard Howells, a cultural sociologist, lecturer, author and broadcaster. My books include Visual Culture, The Myth of the Titanic, and my latest:  A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design. I specialise in the study of visual and popular culture, together with media and cultural theory. I'm Professor of Cultural Sociology at King's College London. In 2015 I was a Visiting Scholar at St John's College, University of Oxford, and in 2017 I was a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford.

Watch my TEDx talk on Utopia

I'm discussing Saturday night TV live on Sky News.

This may look like a Leonardo or even a Lorenzo di Credi. But actually it's a copy by Roger Fry.

I discuss creativity  with the Le Gun art collective: