Join us next Tuesday for our third session of #CriticalCurrent. This session will look at #whitness and the #law with two presentations by Abíọ́dún Abdul and Aurėja Stirbytė. Bring your lunch, and enjoy our online conversation! 🥙 Link in the programme!

A great opportunity to shape the future of sociology! The BSA seeks one Membership Services Trustee and two Teacher Trustees for its governing Board. Applications by 14 April, details at: www.mi-nomination.com/bsatrustee

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 is NEXT Week 🚨🚨 🔈 Learn about teaching scholarship. 🔈 Get publication guidance from experts. 🔈 Turn your pedagogy into publications. 🎶 Attend the ECF Workshop on 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 🙌 See you there!

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...

Nominee for the Work, Employment and Society Sage Journal Prize 2026 Queer Bonds at Work by Iris Po Yee Lo analyses Chinese sexual minority employees’ experiences of building queer bonds at work. Read the full article below. doi.org/10.1177/0950...

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize Journal 2026 Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas by Ratna Khanijou, Benedetta Cappellini and Sameer Hosany investigates how conflicts unfold among newly cohabiting couples during daily practices of making dinner. The full article is below! doi.org/10.1177/0038...

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 Announcement 🚨🚨 ⁉️ Early-career sociologist? ⁉️ Attending this year's BSA Conference? ⁉️ Want to learn how to turn pedagogy into publications? 👉 Then, attend the ECF Workshop on 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 🙌 See you there!

Take part in an essential networking event for Medical Sociology academics and professionals! Call for papers by 10 April for the BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference 2026, 8-10 September, Northumbria University tinyurl.com/bde724d7 #sociology #cfp

Nominee for the Work, Employment and Society Sage Journal Prize 2026 Jonathan Preminger explores the role of internal borders in shaping conditions for noncitizen workers in the context of ethnonational and territorial conflict. Read the article below: doi.org/10.1177/0950...

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026 Margaretha Järvinen and Nanna Mik-Meyer show how scholars react to performance measurement systems in the form of journal lists that define appropriate outlets for their research: doi.org/10.1177/0038... @mikmeyer.bsky.social @mjarv.bsky.social

New Call for Abstracts! Sociological Research Online's new special issue, Making Methodologies, welcomes submissions that examine creative approaches to sociological research design and methodological craft, data analysis and dissemination. Deadline 9 June: www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27157/...

Nominee for the Work, Employment and Society Sage Prize 2026 Jenny K Rodriguez et al explore the use of craftwork as a technology of self-care by women academics to cope with work demands and commodified narratives in academia. Read the article below: doi.org/10.1177/0950...

BSA Members - make the most of our Annual Conference in April. Book now for a free online event, ‘Making the most of the Annual Conference 2026’, on 25 March. Vice Chair Jen Remnant will cover chairing, presenting, asking questions, session selection and networking. tinyurl.com/4hcvcw4s

Take part in an essential networking event for Medical Sociology academics and professionals! Call for papers by 10 April for the BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference 2026, 8-10 September, Northumbria University tinyurl.com/bde724d7 #sociology #cfp

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Journal Prize 2026 Not Talking about Climate Change by Katy Wright and Sarah Irwin analyses data from new research and explores how climate talk is patterned, forms of self-silencing, and the meanings attached to climate talk. Article below👇 doi.org/10.1177/0038...

Book now for the launch event of a new BSA study group, Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions, 10 April, Working Class Movement Library, Manchester. Taking place during the BSA Annual Conference, this includes a library tour, archive workshop and a social event tinyurl.com/4dy3wm63

Cultural Sociology March issue out now! This issue includes the new Regional Spotlight on Chile and articles on educational mobility, Bigfoot, and identity construction. Read now below. journals.sagepub.com/toc/CUS/20/1

Nominee for the Work, Employment and Society Sage Journal Prize 2026 Digitalisation and the Remaking of the Ideal Worker by Debra Howcroft et al examines the concept of the ideal worker as digitalisation becomes increasingly embedded in the workplace. Read more now: doi.org/10.1177/0950...

💥Online Seminar 12 May 2026 4pm BST! Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Activist Scholarship with Akwugo Emejulu (Sheffield), Panos Theodoropoulos (KCL) and AK Thompson (Movement-based scholar and organizer) Co-organised with BSA Theory @bsatheory.bsky.social Registration link👇

📢 Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026 📅 Thurs 16 April, London How can we use data to reduce racial injustice? Free conference from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social Race Equality Fdn & @jrf-uk.bsky.social raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/advancing-ra...

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

Nominee for the Work, Employment and Society Sage Journal Prize 2026 Pedro Mendonça and Nadia K Kougiannou explore how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources. Read their article: lnkd.in/eaC27Zca

Last chance! Call for abstracts by TODAY, 20 March, for our Work, Employment and Society Conference at University of Bath, 9-11 September. We seek submissions on conference theme, ‘Work and Employment in the Great Reshuffle: Navigating the Polycrisis’. @bsa-weel.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ueb3wdf3

Our starter pack 📝 go.bsky.app/NcwSGmt

Join the Conversation 💡 The Bauman Institute is pleased to invite you to Displaced Ecologies - the opening event in the Bauman Memorial Conversations Series: Thinking Displacement. Wednesday 25th March 4:00pm-5:30pm Via Zoom (online only) Sign up: https://ow.ly/axG250YvgfO

New Sociological Research Online journal issue! Read this month’s issue of SRO for articles on social movements, politics of respectability, imposter participants and more. journals.sagepub.com/toc/SRO/31/1

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026 In ‘Siblings and the Bereaved Self’, Laura Towers questions how the death and subsequent loss of a brother or sister affects the way that surviving siblings (continue to) construct their sense of self. Read the full article below. doi.org/10.1177/0038...

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

The full abstract book and programme for our Annual Conference in April at the University of Manchester are now available to view online – registration is still open #sociology tinyurl.com/24fc4eav

Nominee for the Work, Employment and Society Sage Journal Prize 2026 Marketisation and the Public Good by Jeremy Aroles and Kevin Morrell shows how UK museum professionals decouple the logic and vocabulary of marketisation. Read the full article: doi.org/10.1177/0950...

The BSA celebrates its 75th anniversary during the #britsoc2026 annual conference, held at the University of Manchester, 8-10 April. I'm excited to be attending as one of the new co-convenors of the Climate study group and organiser of a Special Event, 10 April (15:15, R4.213) @britsoci.bsky.social

You can now join our mailing list to receive news about our events, seminars, reading group, work-in-progress workshops, call for papers, new publications, and conference announcements. www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study...

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026 ‘Wealth and Class Analysis’ by Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage and Maren Toft looks at addressing wealth inequality by using the work of Marx and Weber, where capital accumulation and property organisation had central stage: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 Announcement 🚨🚨 ⁉️ Early-career sociologist? ⁉️ Attending this year's BSA Conference? ⁉️ Want to learn how to turn pedagogy into publications? 👉 Then, attend the ECF Workshop on 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 🙌 See you there!

WES Conference Call for Abstracts Deadline Approaching Be sure to submit your abstract for this year’s Work, Employment and Society Conference before submissions close on 20 March 2026. Find the details on how to submit and more on the Conference below. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

📣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

Take part in an essential networking event for Medical Sociology academics and professionals – call for papers by 10 April for the BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference 2026, 8-10 September, Northumbria University tinyurl.com/bde724d7

Call for abstracts by 20 March for our Work, Employment and Society Conference at the University of Bath, 9-11 September. We invite submissions on the theme of the conference, ‘Work and Employment in the Great Reshuffle: Navigating the Polycrisis’. @bsa-weel.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ueb3wdf3

A great opportunity to shape the future of sociology! The BSA seeks one Membership Services Trustee and two Teacher Trustees for its governing Board. Applications by 14 April, details at: www.mi-nomination.com/bsatrustee

Call for Papers by 2 April for ‘Storytelling turbulence: Methodological challenges of presenting contemporary complexities’, a free BSA Postgraduate Forum event for BSA members, University of Manchester, 20 May tinyurl.com/3a44d2vf

Opportunity: We’re seeking an outstanding new Chair for the Campaign for Social Science. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the Campaign’s work & to grow its impact.⏰The deadline for applications is 7 April 2026. Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/news/academy...

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 Announcement 🚨🚨 👉 Ever wonder how to turn pedagogy into publications? 👉 Prof. Peter Khan (former editor of Teaching in HE) and Dr. Eileen Pollard (MMU) will tell you how during an interactive workshop 👉 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 📢 See you there!

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

Places are still available for our last Lent Term public seminar this Thursday. Professor @kategooch.bsky.social will speak about her research paper 'Nothing to lose? State (il)legitimacy, moral communication and prison homicide'. Learn more and book your place: www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/nothi...

BSA Members - make the most of our Annual Conference in April. Book now for a free online event, ‘Making the most of the Annual Conference 2026’, 25 March. Vice Chair Jen Remnant will cover chairing, presenting, asking questions, session selection and networking. tinyurl.com/4hcvcw4s

‘The session will highlight challenges in researching emotions’- book now for ‘Methods and Methodologies’, a BSA Sociology of Emotions Study Group online event on Friday 13 March tinyurl.com/55vjwdkw #sociology

Issues covered by sociology of religion and medical sociology often overlap, but the disciplines rarely intersect – this event is a chance for shared learning. Call for papers by Thursday 12 March for ‘Sociology of Religion and Medical Sociology Joint Hybrid Event’, 17 April tinyurl.com/y5utkmwz

Call for Papers by 24 March for ‘Doing Emotions: Emotional Practice and Reflexivity in Everyday Life’, a free BSA Postgraduate Forum Regional Event, 19 May, Edinburgh tinyurl.com/5n772sdr #sociology