We are pleased to announce that BSA members have elected Professor Imogen Tyler as our next Vice President. Imogen is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at…

We are delighted to confirm that Professor Les Back has taken up the role of BSA President, stepping up from Vice President. Many members will know Les’s work and his…

We are delighted to announce Professor Bridget Fowler (University of Glasgow) is the 2025 winner of the Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award. This prestigious award is judged on service…

The Sociology Subject Benchmark Statement has undergone a substantial review. As subject benchmark statements set out what graduates in a given discipline should know, understand, and be able to do…

Dustmen and road sweepers have gone from hero to zero in the public’s eyes since the end of the Covid pandemic, new research says. During the lockdowns people clapped dustmen…

We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize is Elizabeth Chiarello for her book, Policing Patients: Treatment and…

Children as young as nine detained under the Mental Health Act are spending hours in accident and emergency departments under police control rather than in specialist mental health assessment suites….

Fewer employees want to work a four-day week now than they did before the Covid pandemic, new research says. The research shows that the idea that the pandemic has led…

The secret of what employees who switch to a four-day week do with their extra day off have been revealed by new research – and some are moonlighting on a…