The following changes to the membership of the Board of Trustees came into effect from 10 May 2019: Sarah Cant – Public Engagement Director Miriam David – Publications Director Mark…

The BSA’s annual conferences are known for their positive, collegiate atmosphere, and last month’s event in Glasgow was no exception, with some delegates saying it was best they had attended….

On Wednesday, 24 April over 600 sociologists came together for the 68th BSA Annual Conference at Glasgow Caledonian University. In a period of dramatic uncertainty around Brexit and challenging higher…

I have been a member of the BSA since 1992, when I joined my first Sociology Department, and since then it has never occurred to me that I would not…

The British Sociological Association (BSA) is opposed in the strongest possible terms to plans recently announced by President Bolsonaro of Brazil to withdraw government funding of sociology and philosophy from…

A special BSA award has been given to Jayne Egerton and Laurie Taylor for their BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed. The Award for Services to Public Sociology was given…

This month we have five copies of What’s wrong with work? by Lynne Pettinger ready to giveaway. Why does work matter? As changes occur in how work is organised across the…

UPDATE:  The baby has been born, it’s a boy and he has been named. In this article, published before the birth, sociologist Jane Pilcher made a sociologically informed prediction that…

A strong link between the closure of heavy industry in Britain during the Thatcher era and a 20% increase in crime committed by young people over the following 20 years…