British Sociological Association (BSA) - Early Career Forum

@fei-huang.bsky.social @ktwamley.bsky.social

Next Friday! Don't forget to register.

✏️ Looking for ways to take your career to the next level?
✏️ Wanting to enhance the impact of your research on society?
✏️ Unsure what issues policymakers in Scotland are prioritising?

Then, join our ADR SCOTLAND webinar 13 November 13:00–14:30 for insights!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Are Interested in:
👉 Housing,
👉 Health,
👉 Youth,
👉 Work,
👉 Aging,
👉 Inequality,
👉 Climate change, or
👉 Criminal justice?

If so, join the ADR SCOTLAND webinar 13 November 2025 (13.00-14.30) to learn about funding and knowledge exchange opportunities!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Are Interested in:
👉 Housing,
👉 Health,
👉 Youth,
👉 Work,
👉 Aging,
👉 Inequality,
👉 Climate change, or
👉 Criminal justice?

If so, join the ADR SCOTLAND webinar 13 November 2025 (13.00-14.30) to learn about funding and knowledge exchange opportunities!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

📢 Applications are open for the Sociology (SOC) and Work, Employment and Society (WES) Editorial Boards!

Both welcome ECRs, with Sociology offering mentoring for those newer to reviewing.

🗓️ Deadline: 30 Oct 2025, 17:00 GMT
👉 Apply or nominate: www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

Join us on 30 Jan 2026 (2–3 pm GMT) for the BSA webinar on applying for postdoctoral research funding with Dr Fei Huang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) & Prof Katherine Twamley (Professor of Sociology). Get tips on proposals, applications, mentors & more! Book now:
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Are Interested in:
👉 Housing,
👉 Health,
👉 Youth,
👉 Work,
👉 Aging,
👉 Inequality,
👉 Climate change, or
👉 Criminal justice?

If so, join the ADR England webinar 22 October 2025 (13.00-14.30) to learn about funding and knowledge exchange opportunities!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

✏️ Looking for ways to take your career to the next level?
✏️ Wanting to enhance the impact of your research on society?
✏️ Unsure what issues policymakers in England are prioritising?

Then, join our ADR England webinar 22 October 13:00–14:30 for insights!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Are Interested in:
👉 Housing,
👉 Health,
👉 Youth,
👉 Work,
👉 Aging,
👉 Inequality,
👉 Climate change, or
👉 Criminal justice?

If so, join the ADR England webinar 22 October 2025 (13.00-14.30) to learn about funding and knowledge exchange opportunities!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

YouTube video by Alexandrina Vanke Multi-sited ethnography and creative methods: avant-garde methodology explained | Video abstract

Watch Alexandrina’s video abstract for the article here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiGH...

Multi-Sited Ethnography: Developing Avant-Garde Methodology for Creative Research Into Everyday Lives - Alexandrina Vanke, 2025 This article argues for the need to develop multi-sited ethnography as an avant-garde methodology that combines classic methods of observation and interviewing ...

✨New article alert✨In her latest piece, Alexandrina Vanke introduces an avant-garde methodology that develops multi-sited ethnography of everyday life. Curious about using drawing and sketching in research, writing ethnography and creative dissemination?
Read here doi.org/10.1177/1360...

✏️ Looking for ways to take your career to the next level?
✏️ Wanting to enhance the impact of your research on society?
✏️ Unsure what issues policymakers in England are prioritising?

Then, join our ADR England webinar 22 October 13:00–14:30 for insights!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Are Interested in:
👉 Housing,
👉 Health,
👉 Youth,
👉 Work,
👉 Aging,
👉 Inequality,
👉 Climate change, or
👉 Criminal justice?

If so, join the ADR England webinar 22 October 2025 (13.00-14.30) to learn about funding and knowledge exchange opportunities!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

🚨🚨 ECF is co-hosting an informative webinar with ADR England on 22 October (13:00–14:30) about upcoming research, grant, and knowledge exchange opportunities. Admission is free to all BSA members 🚨🚨

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026. Read full Call for Papers below: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/publications-opportunities/#_soc

Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology

This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026. Read full Call for Papers below:
www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Take part in our new research project on police in schools - please share 👇🏿

Are you convinced by politics? In #UncommonSense Volodymyr Ishchenko discuses how, today, #REVOLUTION often fails to bring great change – in #Ukraine and beyond. Here he describes the related “crisis of hegemony”, growing since the ‘60s. Hear more: buff.ly/vXbSbzK

A new issue of The British Journal of Sociology (@bjsociology.bsky.social‬) is out now!

Find our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/X8OjcVS

JOIN US for the launch of Sideways Sociology, our new #podcast mini-series on UK anti-racism.

📅 18 June, 1pm BST/UTC+1 online
➡️ With @academicdiary.bsky.social, John Narayan, Hannah Ishmael, A.S Francis
➡️ Part of the Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series
🎟️ buff.ly/jzuEPjV

A great opportunity! Please submit your application by 13th June to become an editorial board member of the BJSE!

🌟 Join us on Monday for a seminar by Dr Benjamin Abrams!

His work explores a new theoretical model of resistance movements as a distinctive object of social scientific study.

📍 Online & in person

Want to know about the practicalities, ethics and politics of using sociological archives? Book now for ‘Beyond the archival turn: Making and using sociological archives’, a BSA Early Career symposium, 30 June, University of Leicester tinyurl.com/yeysc5mf

Want to know about the practicalities, ethics and politics of using sociological archives? Book now for ‘Beyond the archival turn: Making and using sociological archives’, a BSA Early Career symposium, 30 June, University of Leicester tinyurl.com/yeysc5mf

Inequality in the 21st century Join us to discuss global wealth and income inequality with Professor Mike Savage.

Join us tonight for "Inequality in the 21st century"

Professor Mike Savage, Professor Michèle Lamont and Professor Gurminder K Bhambra join us to reflect on how we can use the sociological imagination to make sense of contemporary challenges and illuminate our current lives.

#LSESociology

This is a book about justice, but not as we know it...

To do justice to our planet, justice must be thought of as hydrojustice.

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos's 'Hydrojustice' is out now.

www.politybooks.com/...

Chang Kyung-Sup is one of the most distinguished sociologists in Korea. His penetrating analysis of the risks and consequences of rapid modernization in Asia is out now.

www.politybooks.com/...

Suspect citizenship: rethinking belonging and non-belonging in plural societies Free LSE public event in exploring citizenship with Dr Jean Beaman and Dr Kristin Surak.

Join us tonight for "Suspect citizenship: rethinking belonging and non-belonging in plural societies". We'll be joined by Dr Jean Beaman as she discusses her original framework of "suspect citizenship".

📍 OLD.3.24, Old Building
🕡 6pm to 7.30pm

#LSESociology

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited

Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬

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Reminder 👇👇
We invite expressions of interest from individuals or teams to join the current co-convening team in July 2025, with the expectation that the newly appointed convenors would take over the leadership of the group from July 2026.
#Sociology #AcademicChatter #SocialTheory #Theory

New article from USN member Sonya Sharma, @sriucl.bsky.social @tcru-ucl.bsky.social