In 2019 the BSA commissioned a report on the place of race and ethnicity in the teaching of British Sociology. The research team appointed, based at Manchester University, comprised Remi…

In January 2020 we had project partners in place, a budget and artist residencies ready to begin; but then the COVID-19 pandemic reached the UK. As the Arts sector ground…

Watch below as BSA President, Susan Halford, announces this year’s Philip Abrams Memorial (PAM) Prize winner. We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s PAM Prize is Luke…

The ‘Designing and Undertaking Participatory Research: Practical Issues, Successes and Challenges’ BSA Early Career Forum event was convened on Wednesday, 9 December 2020. Originally taking place at Sheffield Hallam University…

This month, 70 years ago, a letter was placed in The Times announcing the formation of the British Sociological Association. One can only imagine the utter excitement the thirteen signatories…

One of the brutal lessons of the pandemic is that racism and racial inequality kill. The evidence for this was already there, but the impact of the virus and lockdown…

Dear Professor Canagarajah Subject: The proposed closure of Critical Management Studies and Political Economy I am writing on behalf of the British Sociological Association, to express our very deep concern…

The impact of Covid-19 on black and South Asian groups in Britain has been well documented throughout the pandemic, with a wealth of statistical trends identifying clear relationships across race…

This brief discussion uses Goffman’s (1963) concept of stigma to understand how people with a hidden feature that could incur prejudice become aware of this potential. People’s perception of their…