Doctors, lawyers, and senior managers from working class families are less likely to live in prosperous areas than their counterparts from well-off backgrounds, new research shows. Family background could mean…

Working from home can lead to fathers doing less childcare and mothers doing more, new research shows. An analysis of survey data on 1,694 parents of young children found that…

The BSA takes the impending disastrous and transformative impact of the climate emergency very seriously. We are a charity and a non-profit business too, and as such we want to…

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…

Landlords are using intrusion and negligence to try to oust elderly tenants whose rent is set at a regulated low level under pre-Thatcher legislation, research says. People living in Regulated…

We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s PAM Prize is Natasha Carver for Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom…

Participants in a government scheme to check the welfare of people detained in police stations are ineffective at preventing abuse and death in custody, research says. The Independent Custody Visiting…

Women working from home regularly are less positive about their career prospects than men are, new research shows. They are also less optimistic about getting recognition for good work and…