It started … and ended … with a strike. And in between a global pandemic. It really has been an extraordinary four years! Those cold and snowy picket-line days in…

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…

The BSA Postgraduate and Early Career Forums are looking for new convenors to join their teams in 2022. Convenors work together to make sure that student/early career members of the…

We are delighted to introduce all the new journal Editors for 2021-2026: Nadya Jaworsky (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), Ming-Cheng Lo (University of California, Davis, USA), Marcus Morgan (University of Bristol,…

BSA journal Sociology is seeking applications to join the Editorial Board. The Board extends a welcome to all sociologists who would like to be part of the journal and who…

I am a relatively new Trustee for the BSA having joined the Board in June 2020. Trustees fulfil a statutory governance role in line with charity law and also take…

The BSA is aware that many sociologists, as UCU members in UK Universities, have participated in recent ballots about industrial action about pay and conditions of work and/or in defence…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Graham Crow, of the University of Edinburgh, has been awarded the Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award for 2021.  Watch BSA President, Susan…

It is undeniable that the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped attitudes towards food, exercise and social media. The promotion of getting fit and losing weight bloomed throughout the three lockdowns as…