Many people living in coastal areas are unaware that their homes may not be protected from potential flooding in the long-term, new research shows. Only a small proportion have taken…

Countries that allow economic inequality to increase as they grow richer make their citizens less happy, new research shows. In most of 78 countries studied people were less satisfied with…

Global inequality – its historical legacies as well as its contemporary configuration – is well analysed through interdisciplinary research that brings together economists, historians, and sociologists to examine the nature…

What can we learn from reflecting on the fate of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? To ask this question is to reckon with something…

Mariam Joseph has been announced as the winner of the 2021-22 BSA Young Sociologist of the Year Competition. Mariam attends GEMS Metropole School, Dubai and her application was supported by…

Our recent report on stark ethnic inequalities in the NHS, published by the NHS Race and Health Observatory will make for uncomfortable reading for NHS managers, commissioners and government departments…

When I was invited to write this piece, I did what any responsible sociologist would do and immediately typed International Women’s Day (IWD) into the nearest search engine. The first…

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is #BreaktheBias. The strapline asks us each to work towards a world that is free of gender bias, stereotypes and discrimination, taking…

Whilst international women’s day provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women, as well as to highlight the discrimination they experience, it is only one day. It is important…