On 29 July 2024, a devastating tragedy unfolded in the northern English town of Southport when a man wielding a knife attacked a Taylor Swift dance workshop. Three children were killed….

When last month the Labour government, and the prime minister himself, began to suffer from a significant drop in approval ratings, the explanation offered was: too much ‘doom and gloom’….

‘Roma Art’ – the self-described movement of modern day artists from a wide variety of Roma, Gypsy and Traveller heritages – is having a moment. Delaine Le Bas – a…

In my recently published book, The Great Decline, I present a reappraisal of how we understand the relationship between individual and society, drawing on emerging evidence from neuroscience and epigenetics…

When I wrote ‘Healthy Societies: Policy, Practice and Obstacles’ (Policy Press 2024) for the British Sociological Association’s ‘21st Century Standpoints’ series, I had three main goals in mind. The first…

Millions of households across the United Kingdom have been affected by the Cost of Living Crisis due to the swift surge in the prices of necessary goods and services such…

A project researching the impact of a three-year freeze of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) highlights the human consequences of rising rents and ‘no fault’ (s21) evictions.  Using Office for…

In summer 2023, 45,730 students sat A-Level Sociology, this marked an almost 5% increase on the previous year and meant that Sociology is now the 5th most popular subject at…

Food insecurity is a major public health crisis in the UK and one with significant inequalities. In 2021 to 2022 6% of households in the UK were food insecure, with…