Dear Professor Leyser, Suspension of UKRI EDI advisory group We are writing to you as the Trustees of the British Sociological Association. The BSA is a learned society which upholds…

The law changed in 2018 to legalise cannabis prescribing in the UK – but few people know about it, and even fewer people have accessed a prescription. My own interest…

“Are you happy?” This is the question that provokes anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin’s path-forming 1961 cinéma vérité film, Chronique d’un Été. Quizzing metropolitan Parisians about their bonheur,…

Patient-centred care (PCC) is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. Critical engagement with the concept is difficult,…

In May 2022, the Office for National Statistics reported that 53% of women claim to feel very unsafe walking on their own at night in an open space and as…

Two books published around the time the NHS celebrated its 75th birthday (July 2023) have different views about the threats it faces. Dr Julia Grace Patterson argues that the history…

Current BSA President, Gurminder K Bhambra, completes her term of office in December 2023. We are now seeking nominations for the next President of the British Sociological Association. A new…

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…

After launching a new article format aimed to support and champion doctoral researchers in the sociology of work, BSA journal Work, Employment and Society (WES) has now released a video…