A project researching the impact of a three-year freeze of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) highlights the human consequences of rising rents and ‘no fault’ (s21) evictions.  Using Office for…

White men are more likely to report being bullied at work than are white women or people from ethnic minorities, a new study has found. Researchers analysed survey data on…

Dear Professor Corner, We are writing on behalf of the British Sociological Association, to express our very deep concern about the proposed redundancies that affect sociologists within the Department of…

People who work from home all or part of the time are less likely to get pay rises and promotions, the first post-Covid research project into the WFH phenomenon has…

Aristocrats have increased their influence within British society over the past 150 years, new research shows. Hereditary peers are now almost three hundred times more likely than non-aristocrats to be…

Adults who play video games daily are much more likely to be working-class than middle-class, new research shows. Although as teenagers their rates of daily playing were similar, by aged…

Experts developing AI systems used in job recruitment accept that these can be biased against women but mistakenly believe this can be completely solved by technological fixes, research says. In…

We are delighted to announce Kirsty Davies (pictured left) from Bishop Vaughan Catholic School is the winner of this year’s BSA Young Sociologist of the Year Competition. Sociology teacher, Donna…

‘Expatriate: Following A Migration Category’, by Dr Sarah Kunz, of the University of Essex, wins this year’s Philip Abrams Memorial book prize. The book, published by Manchester University Press last…