The Glasgow Lab for Intersex , Non-binary & Trans Studies quilt square for the @transunityquilt.bsky.social is done!!!

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026 Håvard Helland, Sam Friedman, Vegard Jarness and Jørn Ljunggren investigate the assumption that occupational status hierarchy is tacitly accepted, or misrecognised, by people across the class hierarchy. Read their article below. doi.org/10.1177/0038...

🎬There's still time to register for next week's screening of Prison in Twelve Landscapes. 📍Tues 7 April, 2-5pm, Edinburgh. Get your tickets now! 🎫 www.eventbrite.com/e/prison-in-...

Our next S&CS seminar, organised with the Lived Religion Network and Glasgow Latin America Research Network, is on April 8th in 42 Bute Gardens (916), 15.30-17.00. Visual anthropologist Myrian Lamrani will be talking about her research on Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca.

Taking place today (Monday 30th March) in the Gilbert Scott Building, Committee Room 251, @rahulraothariel.bsky.social: 'The Phallic Lives of Statues'. Rahul's book is out with @plutopress.bsky.social. The seminar is part of the Centre for Gender History series, and starts at 1.00 pm.

📢 Fully Funded Collaborative PhD Opportunity with @uofgsocsci.bsky.social and @nationaluglymugs.bsky.social, based in @uofgsociology.bsky.social and @thesccjr.bsky.social ‘Our Safety, Our Work, Our Views: Sex workers’ experiences of violence, regulation and resistance in Scotland’ 🔗 lnkd.in/e797Wsvf

Advance notice of this forthcoming seminar, organised by @identitiesjournal.bsky.social, and taking place here in Glasgow next month.

🎓 Calling all masters' graduates from 2025! There's less than a month left to apply for the Border Criminologies masters' dissertation prize. Submit your thesis and a 300 word abstract by 20 April and be in with a chance to win up to £200 worth of Routledge books 📚👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Ever thought about turning research into a podcast? Join us on 18 May for Introduction to Podcasting, a practical, hands-on online workshop from The Sociological Review Foundation. Perfect for anyone curious about sharing ideas beyond the academy Limited spaces, find out more:

BSA Theory's next three events are free and open for registration: 26 March 5pm GMT Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe 21 April 2:30pm BST Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist & Queer Theory 12 May 4pmBST Theorizing from Lived Experience: Activist Scholarship #Sociology #Theory

𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 - The 4th Early Career Scholars Conference - ‘Competition Law as a Guiding Discipline for Digital Economy’ - will take place on 12 and 13 November 2026 at the Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow. 1/3🧵

The list of nominees for the 2026 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize has been announced. The prize is for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology tinyurl.com/4fw5bp5t #sociology

Still time to register for the Race and Media Conference taking place at University of Leeds 22-23 April! Co-sponsored by #Identities, with registration open until 20 March: conferences.leeds.ac... About the conference: conferences.leeds.ac... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter

📢 Deadline extended for our 2026 Public Sociology Awards. New deadline: 13 April 2026. Winners will be celebrated at our Public Lecture with Angela Saini on 2 September at the SOAS Gallery, London. Full details and applications process: buff.ly/2qmok7D

The JMS Network event series will also be back at on Thursday 26 March from 6-8pm in the Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre. We're joined by Lez Henry who will be talking to JMS Scholar, Adèle Oliver. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jms-networ...

📣Launch Event Friday 10 April 15:30! Join us for a library tour & archive workshop, introduction to the Group, food & drinks and a social event at Working Class Movement Library in Manchester during @britsoci.bsky.social Conference. DM us or email [email protected]. Details below👇

An event for postgraduate researchers exploring care from a labour perspective – Call for Papers by 17 April for ‘Care, Labour and Capitalism’, a BSA Postgraduate Forum event on 7 July in London tinyurl.com/yn8vwx2u

Sharing here an invitation to attend the hybrid book launch for @duncanjane.bsky.social and Allen Munoriyarwa's new edited collection. Registration link below. Wed. 18 March 2026 (10-12 UK time/12-14.00 South Africa time). Online or in the Nadine Gordimer auditorium, University of Johannesburg.

Bound to succeed: For nearly 70 years, The Sociological Review Journal’s Monograph series has showcased the best and most innovative sociologically informed work. The production process is down to a fine art, reveals @silkeroth.bsky.social in February’s issue. buff.ly/YPhS8BM

Very glad to share this critical reflection from our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social; out now with @politicshome.bsky.social.

Out now by our own @susan-batchelor.bsky.social and Caitlin Gormley, ‘Reframing repeat violence: A critical life-course perspective’, British Journal of Criminology. Open access: academic.oup.com/bjc/article/...

⭐ WELCOME to the 20 scholars who have joined The Sociological Review journal’s Editorial Board this month Read more about these appointments: buff.ly/Jvu5XS0

Just over 2 weeks left until our event!

Tune in to sociology! Hear interviews with authors of articles published in ASA journals, including the American Sociological Review, @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, @sociusjournal.bsky.social, @contexts.org, @teachingsociology.bsky.social, @spquarterly.bsky.social, and more! https://bit.ly/3LMjWqK

This is TODAY! If you are at @glasgow.ac.uk this afternoon please check out Joshua Page's talk which will take place in the Adam Smith Building at 3.30pm. www.sccjr.ac.uk/event/legal-...

Our own Sam Lawton has just published this interview with @jacobengelberg.bsky.social for @intrrgnm.bsky.social on the latter's new book, 'Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression'. Interregnum aims to make radical and critical theory available for a wider public audience.

In Glasgow tomorrow? Come along to this public talk: 'From dispersal to solidarity - 25 years of migrant justice in Glasgow' organised by STAR Glasgow, with me and Dr Pinar Aksu all very welcome! www.instagram.com/p/DVT3QD4iME... www.instagram.com/star.glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social

2/ ...We are delighted to be welcoming Prof Joshua Page (University of Minnesota) whose talk - 'Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice' - will situate the extractive economies built into the criminal justice system in the US within the longer history of racialised capitalism.

1/ Our next S&CS seminar (co-hosted with @thesccjr.bsky.social) takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 11th March 3.30-5.00 in the Adam Smith Business School, Rm 487. Please do come along and share the word...

Our colleagues on the @kthabitproject.bsky.social project team are looking for your images of branded sports memorabilia sponsored by alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, or gambling companies since the 1960s to help them map the history of unhealthy sports sponsorship to create a shared public resource.

A reminder about this seminar taking place with @scarletharris.bsky.social, this Friday. Scarlet's book is out now, with full open access, from @manchesterup.bsky.social.

It's encouraging to see @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social and David Walsh's crucial work being referenced in this article on declining life-expectancy in the UK.

Delighted to share word of this special issue of @ersjournal.com co-edited by our own Dominic Pasura and colleagues. 'Roaming and Rooted' brings together 11 articles rethinking migration via lived religion/spirituality and African epistemologies across Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa & the UK.

The resource pack is on our website. Please share with any practitioners who may wish to facilitate discussions around youth violence with young people. www.sccjr.ac.uk/resource/you...

It was brilliant to see Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon and Graeme Armstrong talk about the 'Straight Out the Scheme: Youth Work Resource' which launched last week. If you work with young people please make sure to check out the recorded talk and download the resource pack! youtu.be/HYXUmY68z_w?...

We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Away From the Faeries' @fergusmcneill.bsky.social asks what an old Scottish folktale might have to tell us about the meaning of rehabilitation. Please share.

Advance notice of this seminar - Islamophobia and anti-racism: ongoing lessons for the ‘British left - taking place next Friday 13th with @scarletharris.bsky.social. Scarlet's book has just been published by MUP (below). 11-1 in Room 416 in the Gilbert Scott building, East Quadrangle. All welcome.

#OtD 3 Mar 1932 the right to free speech on Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland, was won after over a decade of direct action. Up to 100,000 people at a time defied a ban, often arming themselves with sticks, hammers and bottles until authorities caved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1021...

“The Anthem Press Companion to Henri Lefebvre" a new edited book by our own Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson explores the sociology of Lefebvre including rural sociology, everyday life, the urban, utopia, space and its continuing relevance for the discipline today. anthempress.com/books/the-an...

Out now on the Sociology Staffroom podcast, @academicdiary.bsky.social discusses his work and his role as this year's @britsoci.bsky.social president.

Since we are going there again... much of the below still stands! Who’s afraid of the ‘Muslim vote’? share.google/d4YWgJ8QTlVe...

Call for Papers: This joint event hosted by SocRel and @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social is an opportunity for shared learning between the two study groups and will be the first event of its kind. In coming together we hope to share experiences, research findings, and explore areas of mutual interest

Join us on 3 March for a special event to commemorate Berta Cáceres. Details here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Join GLARN @glalarn.bsky.social for their upcoming workshop Border as Possibility: Rewriting Reality with Gloria Anzaldua. Friday 20 March, 2-5pm. Register below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/border-as-...

Deeper insight is needed into how interconnected crises affect labour markets, workers' agency and corporate accountability. Submit your abstract to this year’s Work, Employment and Society Conference to take part in the discussion. Deadline 20 March: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Register to attend our upcoming #Identities online event! The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community In collaboration with the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham www.eventbrite.co.uk... Stuart Hall Foundation

A reminder that our next S&CS seminar is this afternoon - details below. Please come along if you can and feel free to share details with anyone you think might be interested.

Sharing here a recent interview in Black Histories with our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social

Still (just) time to apply for positions on the editorial boards of these two @britsoci.bsky.social journals.

What would we say to our younger selves?