The journal Work, Employment and Society (WES) recently published our article titled: The ‘new’ migration for work phenomenon: The pursuit of emancipation and recognition in the context of work, which…

  Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Sir, I am writing to you as President of the British Sociological Association to express our deepest…

The BSA is delighted to welcome a new Editorial Team for Sociological Research Online for 2020-2022: Kahryn Hughes (University of Leeds), Angharad Beckett (University of Leeds), Anna Tarrant (University of…

Strike action is about to begin again in universities across the UK (46 pre-1992 institutions will strike on pension issues, 57 pre-1992 and post 1992 will strike on pay and…

Our Prime Minister’s sexual relationships hold no interest for me, but allegations of using public office to favour friends is of considerable public and sociological interest. As Mark Granovetter observed,…

One of the most rewarding aspects of my research is calling up documents at the British Library and discovering a new collection of stories that tell me something about the…

The loss of a baby during or after pregnancy is, sadly, an everyday occurrence in the UK. According to latest figures from the NHS (2019) around 1 in 8 pregnancies…

Dear colleagues I am writing to strongly encourage you to participate in the British Sociological Association commissioned study on the place of race and ethnicity in the Sociology undergraduate curricula…

Social scientists aren’t always very good at remembering their own history. Also, their research doesn’t build as intelligently on what has gone before as research in some other disciplines. This…