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),…

Podcasts are becoming an ever more popular media source across the world. According to Statista, between 2017 and 2021 the number of people who listen to podcasts in the UK…

I recently attended a meeting discussing the national REF results for Sociology that was convened by the British Sociological Association (BSA), the Heads and Professors of Sociology (HaPS), and the…

I am pleased to report on behalf of the Sociology sub-panel for REF 2021 some good news. There has been a considerable increase in the number of sociology submissions to…