Deadline for sub-panel chair and deputy chair: Midday 6 Feb 2025 Deadline for general panel membership: Midday 28 April 2025 Recruitment is now open for applications for the Research Excellence…

The Department for Education (DfE) is currently reviewing the national curriculum and assessment frameworks, a process that will shape educational outcomes in England.  Led by fellow sociologist Professor Becky Francis…

The BSA has expressed its sadness at the recent death of Dr Jo Woodiwiss. Dr Woodiwiss was a Reader in Sociology and Youth Studies at the University of Huddersfield, with…

The BSA is sad to hear of the death of Howard S Becker. Howard was perhaps best known for his research and writings on the sociology of deviance, and his…

The BSA is sad to learn of the death of Harry Goulbourne, Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University. His books included Ethnicity and Nationalism in post-Imperial Britain (1991),…

The BSA has expressed its regret at the death of Sir Robert Burgess, the sociologist and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester. Under Professor Burgess the university enjoyed great…

The BSA noted with interest SAGE’s announcement on 7 December that owner Sara Miller-McCune passed control of the publishing house to a trust. Social science research has been at the…

What a difference a year makes: the impact of Covid 19 on graduate careers[i], published in July by the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research and funded by the…