SRO Sage Prize Nominee Claire Cunnington et al. discuss ‘Flow’, a film aiming to address the importance of trauma informed care and barriers to trauma disclosure with professionals. Read the article and get a link to the film: doi.org/10.1177/1360... @drcisme.bsky.social @chindilani.substack.com

This Black History Month, the Department of Sociology is celebrating work of four Black scholars who made important contributions to sociological and criminological scholarship whose work is often overlooked. Come visit our display on 2nd floor of the Law & Sociology building to share feedback!

Will be hosting a discussion about Stuart Hall’s life and jazz, along with a showing of The Stuart Hall Project film, with a live performance of Miles Davis music by the Nu Civilisation Orchestra - tickets available now at the Union Chapel, London 9th November unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/nu-...

SRO Sage Prize Nominee Harvey Humphrey et al.’s article, 'As Is and Co-creating Theatre from Research to Stage', looks at the staging of an 'ethnodrama' based on research with trans, intersex and LGBTI activists doi.org/10.1177/1360... @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Engage with Bourdieu’s work to rethink inequalities! Call for papers by 13 November for ‘Rethinking Educational Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender through Bourdieu’, a BSA Bourdieu Study Group International Conference, 9-11 June 2027, Manchester Metropolitan University. tinyurl.com/rv64unjy

Two core insights: 🧠 Intersectionality in the mind: an everyday awareness that inequalities interlock. 👷‍♀️ A view from the intersections: social position isn't simple addition; it’s co-constitutive. Full paper (OA) via @britsoci.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Our latest Sociological & Cultural Studies blog is now available. In 'Welcome to Glasgow’s four corners' @susanabatchelor.bsky.social considers the way in which certain urban spaces - and those who frequent them - come to be constructed as problematic.

Billionaires & Guillotines Game Night with Max Haiven Join us to play Billionaires & Guillotines with the designer of the game, @maxhaiven.bsky.social! 21 Oct, Pelican House. Doors open at 6pm, game starts at 6:30pm. Free & open to all. Places are limited, please register: tinyurl.com/24m74w8e

Nick Crossley's article 'Music Worlds and Event Networks' published in @culsoc.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the @journals.sagepub.com Prize for Innovation and Excellence. All shortlisted articles are open access - here's Nick's journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @britsoci.bsky.social

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SRO Sage Prize Nominee In their SRO Sage Prize nominated article, Simon Duncan, Jenny van Hooff, and Julia Carter establish the importance of living together apart, when ex-partners continue to co-reside following relationship breakdown. doi.org/10.1177/1360...

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Take part in an event on death and dying in settings such as hospitals, hospices, homes and at work. Call for Papers by 13 October for ‘Everyday Deaths’, a BSA Social Aspects of Death Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium, 10 December, University of Bath tinyurl.com/4yary86s

Paul Jones’ article, 'Engaging with Live Experience', analyses the content of six years of BSA journal articles that contain ‘lived experience’, to illuminate how sociologists practically deploy the category in their published research. Read the full article below. doi.org/10.1177/1360...

A chance for sociologists, art historians and theorists to exchange perspectives on the aesthetic – book now for ‘The Aesthetic and Culture in the Arts’, a free Arts Postgraduate Research symposium, 7 October, University of Edinburgh. Keynote speaker, Dr Liliana Riga. tinyurl.com/y26mdnft

How is the struggle for climate justice also an anti-capitalist struggle? Find out by booking on ‘Workers and the Struggle for Climate Justice’, a free online event on 12 November by @bsa-asmr.bsky.social and @alternativesatsase.bsky.social More details: tinyurl.com/nrj24e48

A new paper with @wwwendyz502.bsky.social is finally online in Cultural Sociology! We look at how Chinese youth think and feel about Hong Kong and Taiwan. @culsoc.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1749...

Imagining “Us” and “Them”: Emotional Logics of Sovereignty and National Belonging among Chinese Youth - Weirong Guo, Wendy Weile Zhou, 2026

How do people emotionally imagine political others and the competing sovereignty claims they represent, and how are these imaginaries tied to different visions ...

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How can we define and measure a life well lived? Find out the answer to one of the most important questions of our time, by booking on ‘What does it mean to live well, and can we measure it?’, a free BSA Happiness Study Group event, 13 October, Strand Palace Hotel, London. tinyurl.com/48uvmf4j

New online event: Labour and the Struggle for Climate Justice with Stefania Barca and Lorenzo Feltrin. 📍Online 📆12 November 2026 🕞15:30-17:00 GMT Brought to you by @britsoci.bsky.social ASMR and @alternativesatsase.bsky.social Free & open to all. Register here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

What a great way to begin the teaching year. Four tutorials on a sentence that still gives students plenty to argue with! Welcome back to everyone studying sociology this term. Here’s to asking questions about the world, and what we might change. @britsoci.bsky.social #Sociology #AcademicSky

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Have been teaching Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach today which contains the sentence voted by BSA members as the in sociology - “Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” 4 tutorials back to back the best of days.

I'm proud that our collection How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic was awarded the 2026 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness Book Prize from @britsoci.bsky.social What an honor to share this with co-editors @maramills.bsky.social , Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp, as well as all contributors!

I have been writing little field notes from getting out and making the case for sociology in schools and FE colleges. This one is from Prince William School in Oundle. @bsaecf.bsky.social

NEW Work, Employment and Society Themed Collection! The Work, Ageing and Retirement collection analyses a collection of articles published on WES to highlight key themes in what sociologists of work and ageing have researched since 1989. Read the collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/wes/col...

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See the updated BSA’s Jobs Board for dozens of current opportunities for work and study, from lectureships and fellowships to professorships and more. www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

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Engage with Bourdieu’s work to rethink inequalities – call for papers by 13 November for ‘Rethinking Educational Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender through Bourdieu’, a BSA Bourdieu Study Group International Conference, 9-11 June 2027, Manchester Metropolitan University. tinyurl.com/rv64unjy

How can we make Britain fairer? Join @york.ac.uk, in association with the Campaign for Social Science, on 4 Nov for 'The Fair Necessities: Why We Need a Fairer Britain & How to Make It Happen.' Featuring @fairness.bsky.social CEO Will Snell and fellow panellists. Register: buff.ly/ZE4j51K

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Join us for this ESRC Festival of Social Science event hosted by the University of York.

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#PSA27 Call for Papers 📢 Paper & panel proposals invited for the PSA27 Annual Conference at the University of Hull, 22-24 March 2027. 📆 CfP Deadline 12 October 2026 🌎️ Conference theme: 'Seismic Politics – impacts and responses from the global to the local'

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Join us in Hull for PSA27 to discuss Seismic Politics – impacts and responses from the global to the local “PSA [conference] was really great. It gave much-needed exposure to interact with…

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BSA Young Sociologist of the Year Competition 2026 is now open to students aged 16–19 studying Sociology. Students can submit a 2,000-word essay, or an audio-visual project (podcast or video, up to 10 minutes). Winners will receive £100. Deadline: 2 November. Details: tinyurl.com/498udsfj

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS #criticalcurrents: is back for a second season in 2027! The BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group is looking for researchers, artists, organisers & practitioners who want to share and discuss work on #race & #ethnicity. 🧵 1/4

A chance to discuss research concepts in the field of Sociology of Emotions. Submit an abstract by 9 October for ‘Sociology of Emotions: Unpacking Concepts’, a @bsa-emotions.bsky.social‬ online event, 11 November tinyurl.com/msxbeah9

Social science teachers📣 Are you looking for ways to help inform your students of the types of careers & skills that studying social science subjects at secondary school can lead to? Download our 2 posters which can be printed off & displayed in your classroom here➡️ acss.org.uk/what-is-soci...