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The BSA’s 2023 Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award has been given to John Brewer, emeritus professor at Queen’s University Belfast and an expert on crime, policing, peace processes and…
This year a new Editorial team took the helm at BSA journal Sociological Research Online and they set out their thoughts in their new editorial, ‘Sociological Research in the Digital…
The BSA is pleased to announce that our next President will be Professor Rachel Brooks, of the University of Surrey. Professor Brooks, who is Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, in…
Dear Professor Leyser, Suspension of UKRI EDI advisory group We are writing to you as the Trustees of the British Sociological Association. The BSA is a learned society which upholds…
After launching a new article format aimed to support and champion doctoral researchers in the sociology of work, BSA journal Work, Employment and Society (WES) has now released a video…
We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize is Professor Alison Pilnick (pictured right) for her book, Reconsidering…
The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are ‘bullshit’ has been confirmed by a new study. The research found that people working…
As Members of the Board of the BSA, we express solidarity and concern for our fellow sociologists involved in UCU-led Action-Short-Of-A-Strike (ASOS), the national marking boycott and localised strike action…
Dear Professor Humphris and Professor Maddison, We are writing on behalf of the British Sociological Association, to express our very deep concern about the proposed redundancies in the subject areas…