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…

Keeping in touch via video, phone and instant messaging was little help in preventing a rise in people’s anxiety and depression during the pandemic lockdowns, a major new UK study…

The BSA is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Margaret Archer yesterday (21 May). Professor Archer was a leading social theorist and had been given the BSA’s Lifetime…