Doctors, lawyers, and senior managers from working class families are less likely to live in prosperous areas than their counterparts from well-off backgrounds, new research shows. Family background could mean…

Introduction Young people no longer in the compulsory schooling system and yet Not in Employment, Education or Training (termed NEETs) are the focus of government attention in the United Kingdom…

Working from home can lead to fathers doing less childcare and mothers doing more, new research shows. An analysis of survey data on 1,694 parents of young children found that…

Over the past few years, the plastics industry has come under intense pressure due to public concerns about marine plastic waste, toxic pollution, and the climate crisis. One of the…

The BSA takes the impending disastrous and transformative impact of the climate emergency very seriously. We are a charity and a non-profit business too, and as such we want to…

Introduction A senior software engineer (Blake Lemoine) working for Google has been placed on paid leave after publishing a set of transcripts between himself and LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue…

It is early May 2022. Among news of a looming recession and ongoing reporting about Ukraine, news outlets start to pick up rumours of a new disease spreading among gay,…

In the context of an ageing population and rising demand for care services, employment prospects for care workers are projected to grow. One response to this has been the emergence…

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),…