As the Covid-19 crisis deepens, the volume of advice regarding how employees can maintain a healthy work-life balance is expanding. As researchers with an interest in the work-life interface and…

I am often asked the question why am I so passionate about rural pubs when I rarely drink alcohol? Put simply, as highlighted by the work of the Plunkett Foundation…

During one of these quarantine-days, scrolling down my Facebook feed, I found a story about a friend in Naples. Giuseppe is an actor, theatre director and writer. He often posts…

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…