In 2016, I joined the University of Leicester’s Department of Health Sciences to undertake a funded PhD exploring barriers to and facilitators of the implementation of national clinical guidelines for…

University of Glasgow PhD candidates Molly Gilmour and Jessica Penney organized a British Sociological Association Postgraduate Event on Friday, 24 January from 9am to 5pm. Entitled ‘Facilitating Holistic Wellbeing in the…

My colleague Nicholas Van Hear and I have developed a ‘solution’ (an inflated word, but we wanted to think big) to the rise in mass displacement across the world. We…

The BSA Postgraduate Student Regional Event on ‘Reproduction and Risk’ took place at the University of Leicester on 20 November 2019, hosted by PhD student and midwife Julia Clark. The aim…

The journal Work, Employment and Society (WES) recently published our article titled: The ‘new’ migration for work phenomenon: The pursuit of emancipation and recognition in the context of work, which…

Our Prime Minister’s sexual relationships hold no interest for me, but allegations of using public office to favour friends is of considerable public and sociological interest. As Mark Granovetter observed,…

The loss of a baby during or after pregnancy is, sadly, an everyday occurrence in the UK. According to latest figures from the NHS (2019) around 1 in 8 pregnancies…

Social scientists aren’t always very good at remembering their own history. Also, their research doesn’t build as intelligently on what has gone before as research in some other disciplines. This…

Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging showcases cutting-edge empirical research on young people’s lifeworlds. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the scholars in our new book in the BSA’s Sociological Futures Book…