We are delighted to announce that Professor Liz Stanley, of the University of Edinburgh, has been awarded the Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award for 2020. “It is difficult to imagine anyone…

The Conservative government’s strategy to combat the COVID 19 pandemic includes a range of measures, which have developed over time, culminating in advising the British public to stay at home…

Although the BSA Annual Conference 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic we kept you connected with a week filled with activities, culminating in the Covid-19 Sociology Symposium Webinar. …

The COVID-19 pandemic represents the tragic symptom of our social structures. Stating that humanity produced the current health emergency would be considered by many disrespectful towards many human beings who…

Since it began to gather momentum at the turn of the 21st century, the sociological study of animals and society has struggled for legitimacy. Although some sociology programs are beginning…

Drawing on my ethnographic doctoral study which analysed the UK experience of the 2009- 10 H1N1 influenza pandemic using an actor network theory (ANT) approach (Hale, 2016), there are transferrable…

I have always been the person who worried about the looming crises of the time: nuclear winter in the 1980s, Y2K in the late 1990s, fires and earthquakes when I…

My neighbour cleaned out his shed yesterday. He’s doing it again today. People are running out of things to do it seems, ways to occupy their time, and it will…

We are in the midst of the Covid-19 global pandemic and the impacts are huge: from individual tragedies, to the collapse of organisations and unprecedented pressures on health and welfare…