Dear Professor Cox, 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 Health and…

Nominations for the 2024 BSA Board of Trustees Elections are now open. Deadline: 26 March 2024, 17:00 The BSA is seeking three new trustees interested in taking up roles as…

The BSA’s 2023 Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award has been given to John Brewer, emeritus professor at Queen’s University Belfast and an expert on crime, policing, peace processes and…

In summer 2023, 45,730 students sat A-Level Sociology, this marked an almost 5% increase on the previous year and meant that Sociology is now the 5th most popular subject at…

Food insecurity is a major public health crisis in the UK and one with significant inequalities. In 2021 to 2022 6% of households in the UK were food insecure, with…

One of the many frustrating consequences of reading the deliberations of the Covid-19 public inquiry is the realisation that, at best, we won’t have the report until 2026. Should we…

This year a new Editorial team took the helm at BSA journal Sociological Research Online and they set out their thoughts in their new editorial, ‘Sociological Research in the Digital…

Our Presidential Event on ‘Caste and its Implications for Sociologies of Inequality’ was held at the London School of Economics on Friday, 6 October 2023 and over 40 people attended…

Israel’s devastation of Gaza is a disproportionate response to the terror attack undertaken by Hamas on October 7th which killed over a thousand Israelis, migrant workers, and foreign citizens and…