Introduction A senior software engineer (Blake Lemoine) working for Google has been placed on paid leave after publishing a set of transcripts between himself and LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue…

It is early May 2022. Among news of a looming recession and ongoing reporting about Ukraine, news outlets start to pick up rumours of a new disease spreading among gay,…

In the context of an ageing population and rising demand for care services, employment prospects for care workers are projected to grow. One response to this has been the emergence…

The BSA is sad to learn of the death of Harry Goulbourne, Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University. His books included Ethnicity and Nationalism in post-Imperial Britain (1991),…

Podcasts are becoming an ever more popular media source across the world. According to Statista, between 2017 and 2021 the number of people who listen to podcasts in the UK…

I recently attended a meeting discussing the national REF results for Sociology that was convened by the British Sociological Association (BSA), the Heads and Professors of Sociology (HaPS), and the…

Warning: This article contains content some readers may find distressing. If you are a person in the UK who wishes to terminate a pregnancy the process is relatively straightforward: within…

The BSA has welcomed the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, released today, which show a marked rise in the results for sociology compared with the last REF in…

Young children perform better at school if their fathers feel they spend sufficient time in play with them, but there is no similar effect for mothers, new research says. The…