COVID-19, Higher Education and Disability – a series of four blogs on lessons to be learned from the current crisis, Disability Studies, and disabled people. Three:  As suggested in the…

COVID-19, Higher Education and Disability – a series of four blogs on lessons to be learned from the current crisis, Disability Studies, and disabled people. Two: The yawning chasm between…

Professor Tim May has recorded (with permission from the publishers) a chapter – ‘Sustaining Our Lives’ – from Thinking Sociologically written with the late Zygmunt Bauman and published by Wiley in 2019. The…

COVID-19, Higher Education and Disability – a series of four blogs on lessons to be learned from the current crisis, Disability Studies, and disabled people. One: I start this discussion…

The UK has a multicultural and linguistically diverse population, with more than 300 languages spoken nationwide. For many, English is not the primary language, nor is it spoken at home….

As I write this (5 May 2020), I am living in Worcestershire, in the UK. We are still in lockdown. For us, we are now entering the seventh week. Lockdown…

We are of course in an Apocalyptic movie from which we will all wake up presently. Either that or calamity will be a great educator. How do we re-imagine ourselves…

I am the Head of Sociology at a large sixth form in Yorkshire. We have 253 students in A1 and A2. I’ve been teaching sociology for twenty years now, I…

As you’re doubtless aware, the BSA has been experiencing significant difficulties due to COVID-19, much in line with what’s been happening in most organisations and charities across the country. Aside…