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Call for Papers by 1 April for ‘Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference’, 18 May, De Montfort University.
Over the past 24 years, the conference has attracted speakers from emerging, early career and experienced researchers, and those working in the field.
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Many thanks to everyone who attended the Pirate Care event today! The video recording will be shared soon.
Make sure to register for our next event which is due to take place on the 26th March from 5pm GMT - Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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.
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ECRs! Explore how more equitable, sustainable and collectively supported academic futures might be built – book now for ‘Reimagining Academic Futures: Building Collective Pathways Beyond Precarity’, a free @bsaecr.bsky.social event, Newcastle, 4 June tinyurl.com/mtwae2pj #sociology
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Great episode of Thinking Allowed with two great contributors @academicdiary.bsky.social and @imogentyler.bsky.social. Well worth a listen! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Out now on the Sociology Staffroom podcast, @academicdiary.bsky.social discusses his work and his role as this year's @britsoci.bsky.social president.
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This event will be taking place tomorrow from 7pm GMT!
It will continue conversations started in this recently published book review symposium: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
More details & registration link here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
#Theory #Sociology #PirateCare
Happy Monday!
We are excited to announce the launch of our first Editorial Development Scheme (EDS).
Find more information and the application here – www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/want-join-ed....
Deadline for applications is 01/04/26
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Postgrads – a chance to exchange ideas and find collaborative ways of knowing! Book now for ‘New Perspectives on Postgraduate Research and Future Career Pathways’, a free BSA Postgraduate Forum event, 28 March, Coventry tinyurl.com/52hhaevz #sociology
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Image text relates to 'Innovating Ego-Network Research with Interactive Visual Tools’, a free online event
How can we move beyond static data collection? Find out by booking on ‘Innovating Ego-Network Research with Interactive Visual Tools’, a free online event supported by the BSA Social Network Analysis Group, 20 March
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Join GLARN @glalarn.bsky.social for their upcoming workshop Border as Possibility: Rewriting Reality with Gloria Anzaldua. Friday 20 March, 2-5pm. Register below.
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Image text relates to submitting an abstract to this year’s Work, Employment and Society Conference to take part in the discussion. Deadline 20 March
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...
Free and requiring no prior experience of filmmaking, this Feminist Filmmaking Workshop is taking place in the ARC (Studio 2), 6th March, 10-12. The workshop emerges from a project involving own Emma Flynn, in collaboration with colleagues from Arts and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Book below.
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Closing tomorrow!
Apply to join the SRO or Cultural Sociology Journal Editorial Boards by Thursday, 26 February, 17:00 GMT!
Gain insight on the publication process and contribute to journal discussions, by applying now. Details can be found below.
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VACANCY: 2 x Lecturer in Sociology with a focus on...
1. 'race' & anti-racism
2. political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class)
£42-58k, apply by 3 March.
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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
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See you tomorrow at 11a.m for our online reading group!
It's also OK to come if you haven't managed to read the book!
Image text relates to Call for Papers deadline for ‘Understanding and Enacting Social Change in Education: Working with Bourdieu’ extended to Monday, 2 March.
Call for Papers deadline for ‘Understanding and Enacting Social Change in Education: Working with Bourdieu’ extended to Monday, 2 March.
Event takes place on 11 June in Livorno, Italy, and is run by the BSA Bourdieu Study Group tinyurl.com/3s7xea5e
Poster for free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’
‘We witness, around the world, people rising up to defend one another from fascism, austerity and the cruel politics of disposability’.
Book now for a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social
3 March tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
Which grand figures – such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Foucault – continue to shape sociological thought today?
Listen to BSA President Les Back and Vice-President @imogentyler.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed 3.30pm today, Tuesday February 24 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This is very sad news indeed.
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Which grand figures – such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Foucault – continue to shape sociological thought today?
Listen to BSA President Les Back and Vice-President Imogen Tyler on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed tomorrow, Tuesday February 24
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #sociology
Image text relates to 'Sociology of Religion and Medical Sociology Joint Hybrid Event', 17 April
Issues covered by the 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 12 March for 'Sociology of Religion and Medical Sociology Joint Hybrid Event', 17 April
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Registration for the BSA Annual Conference is now OPEN.
Held on the eve of the Association’s 75th anniversary, this year’s conference offers a moment to think sociologically how our histories shape our present.
Join us from 8-10 April at the University of Manchester.
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If you've tried to register but the link did not work/indicated that the event is fully booked, we're pleased to announce that the portal should be working once again!
Please visit this page to register for our Theorising from Lived Experience event: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Harmonised datasets focusing on climate change, digitalisation, equality, health and resilience are now available.
They include #data from five social #surveys that have been harmonised to make them as comparable as possible, even if the question text and response scales differed.
Our next Sociological & Cultural Studies seminar is next week, Wednesday 25th February 15:30-17:00, Clarice Pears Building, 103B. We're joined by Nicholas Lackenby (Anthropology, UCL) who will be talking about his work exploring the politics of historical memory on the Bosnian/Croatian border.
20.02.2026 08:03 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2This event will take place on Friday next week - grab your tickets!
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Image text refers to: Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March
Book now for 'Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March
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'Together, we can establish consensus-based modes of transgenerational cohabitation, and large-scale methods for distributing and minimizing the burdens of life’s work'
We're discussing this powerful book at our online reading group next week (see pinned post)
Coming?
@reproutopia.bsky.social
