In the run up to World Mental Health Day, Paul Hodkinson and Ranjana Das reflect on some of the difficulties new fathers can have recognizing and seeking help for paternal…

Through a series of historical accidents, I happened to find myself one of the few sociologists close to the scientific committees advising the UK government on the management of the…

Rewind to a time before the pandemic (if you can!), November 2019, I was informed I had successfully received funds to host an ECF event at the University of Gloucestershire….

In the words of Michael Young, one of the 58 interviewed Pioneers in the Pioneers of Social Research Project, research is about following: “your inner light… Find out what you’re…

Amid tabloid reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for all ‘women of childbearing age’ to be ‘banned’ from drinking alcohol, the relationship between alcohol and gender equality…

In January 2020 we had project partners in place, a budget and artist residencies ready to begin; but then the COVID-19 pandemic reached the UK. As the Arts sector ground…

The ‘Designing and Undertaking Participatory Research: Practical Issues, Successes and Challenges’ BSA Early Career Forum event was convened on Wednesday, 9 December 2020. Originally taking place at Sheffield Hallam University…

One of the brutal lessons of the pandemic is that racism and racial inequality kill. The evidence for this was already there, but the impact of the virus and lockdown…

The impact of Covid-19 on black and South Asian groups in Britain has been well documented throughout the pandemic, with a wealth of statistical trends identifying clear relationships across race…