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Take stock of what we know about the functioning of the media in scandalous times – submit an abstract by 21 November for ‘Media in a Scandalous Age’, a free online event by the BSA Media Study Group on 10 December
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Image relates to: Add the winning paper of the Cultural Sociology journal Sage Prize to your weekend TBR! Peggy Levitt and Andreja Siliunas focus on the effects culture has on shaping cultural globalization, arguing that diffusion itself is a cultural practice. Read now for free! https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755221147653

Add the winning paper of the Cultural Sociology journal Sage Prize to your weekend TBR!

Peggy Levitt and Andreja Siliunas focus on the effects culture has on shaping cultural globalization, arguing that diffusion itself is a cultural practice.

Read now for free!
doi.org/10.1177/1749...

Image text says: ‘A sustained critique of AI from intersecting feminist, posthumanist and neo-materialist perspectives’ – book now for ‘Dismantling Human-Centred AI: A Feminist Intervention’ a free online BSA New Materialisms Study Group seminar, 8 December https://tinyurl.com/d4pma6jz

‘A sustained critique of AI from intersecting feminist, posthumanist and neo-materialist perspectives’ – book now for ‘Dismantling Human-Centred AI: A Feminist Intervention’ a free online BSA New Materialisms Study Group seminar, 8 December tinyurl.com/d4pma6jz

Image text says: Have you read the Sage Prize winning paper for SRO journal? Nested Narratives by Susie Scott and Nina Lockwood explores the ways in which biographical subjects narrate their lives unlived. Read the full paper #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231184353

Have you read the Sage Prize winning paper for SRO journal?

Nested Narratives by Susie Scott and Nina Lockwood explores the ways in which biographical subjects narrate their lives unlived.

Read the full paper #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1177/1360...

Image text says: What challenges do you face as a PhD student working in the field of arts and culture? Discuss at ‘Meeting Emerging Sociologists of the Arts and Culture: A PGR Online Tea Chat’ – a free online event by the BSA Sociology of the Arts Study Group, 12 December https://tinyurl.com/47hw76h6

What challenges do you face as a PhD student working in the field of arts and culture? Discuss at ‘Meeting Emerging Sociologists of the Arts and Culture: A PGR Online Tea Chat’ – a free online event by the BSA Sociology of the Arts Study Group, 12 December tinyurl.com/47hw76h6

✏️ 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...

Image text says: Early Career Researchers – get connected with the Administrative Data Research initiative, giving access to administrative datasets not publicly available for research on social problems affecting Scotland Book now for our @bsaecr.bsky.social workshop, 13 November, online tinyurl.com/3rfrxw44

Early Career Researchers – get connected with the Administrative Data Research initiative, giving access to administrative datasets not publicly available for research on social problems affecting Scotland.

Book now for our @bsaecr.bsky.social workshop, 13 November, online tinyurl.com/3rfrxw44

Applications close today!

Be sure to submit your application below to join the Editorial Boards of Sociology journal, and Work, Employment and Society.

Deadline to submit is 17:00 GMT.
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Image text says: ‘The urgency of critical intervention on AI becomes undeniable’. Book now for Dismantling Human-Centred AI: A Feminist Intervention, a free online BSA New Materialisms Study Group seminar, 8 December https://tinyurl.com/d4pma6jz

‘The urgency of critical intervention on AI becomes undeniable’ - book now for Dismantling Human-Centred AI: A Feminist Intervention, a free online BSA New Materialisms Study Group seminar, 8 December tinyurl.com/d4pma6jz

Image text says: Don’t miss your chance to apply for the WES Editorial Board. Applications close tomorrow! We are looking for experts in quantitative methods, sexuality at work, gender, and more. Submit your application now. https://www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

Don’t miss your chance to apply for the WES journal Editorial Board. Applications close tomorrow!

We are looking for experts in quantitative methods, sexuality at work, gender, and more.

Submit your application now.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

Mis(sing)information: How contraceptive users bridge the gap between medicalised and experiential knowledge - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association Concerns are growing over social media information emphasising negative experiences of hormonal contraception. Labelled as misinformation, the volume and accessibility of this content that is said to ...

Concerns are growing that social media emphasises negative experiences of hormonal contraception – but using social media does not necessarily mean a rejection of medical information, say @kristina-s.bsky.social and Lily Roberts @uofgsociology.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/mr2v8aa3

Image text says that Sociology journal is looking for new Board members. Do you specialise in quantitative or computational methods? Apply now!

Sociology journal is looking for new Board members!

Do you specialise in quantitative or computational methods? Apply now!

The full list of expertise we need and how to apply can be found below. Applications close 11 November 2025.
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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!

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Book Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century (Routledge 2025)

A BSA Theory Study Group Event

21 November 2025 (14:00-15:30 GMT)
Online

Free to attend, registration required

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#SocialTheory

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How will AI affect society? Find out by booking on 'Book Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century' a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event on 21 November tinyurl.com/4bspp3pr

Would you like to contribute to Sociology or Work, Employment and Society?

Be sure to submit your application to join the Editorial Boards by 11 November 2025. Details on how to apply or nominate a colleague can be found below.
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New research from @manchester.ac.uk asks: "What happens when your AI soulmate disappears?"

Dr Jennifer Cearns explores human-AI relationships. It’s not sci-fi - it’s happening now!

Read more www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w... 💔

#SoSSResearch #AI #Anthropology #TechAndEmotion #DigitalFutures

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Take stock of what we know about the functioning of the media in scandalous times – submit an abstract by 21 November for ‘Media in a Scandalous Age’, a free online event by the BSA Media Study Group on 10 December See below for details or email jpm29@leicester.ac.uk

Would you like to contribute to Sociology or Work, Employment and Society journals?

Be sure to submit your application to join the Editorial Boards by 11 November 2025. Details on how to apply or nominate a colleague can be found below.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

This month’s list of consultations & inquiries from the UK’s 4 legislatures & governments that require #socialscience evidence incl. consultations on parole reform, new housing developments, local government elections rules & more. Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/policy-monit...

Image text says: We are very excited to announce this year’s winner of the Cultural Sociology Sage Prize! Congratulations to Peggy Levitt and Andreja Siliunas for Cultures of Cultural Globalization: How National Repertoires and Political Ideologies Affect Literary and Artistic Circulation: https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755221147653

We are very excited to announce this year’s winner of the Cultural Sociology Sage Prize!

Congratulations to Peggy Levitt and Andreja Siliunas for Cultures of Cultural Globalization: How National Repertoires and Political Ideologies Affect Literary and Artistic Circulation: doi.org/10.1177/1749...

Image text says: Sociology teachers: Get help developing A-Level students’ synoptic skills across papers from multiple exam boards. Book now for ‘Connecting the Dots: A Synoptic Approach to Theory and Methods’, a free BSA online event, 27 November https://tinyurl.com/u822csss

Sociology teachers: Get help developing A-Level students’ synoptic skills across papers from multiple exam boards. Book now for ‘Connecting the Dots: A Synoptic Approach to Theory and Methods’, a free BSA online event, 27 November tinyurl.com/u822csss

Image text says: ‘Tracing the Multi-scalar Impacts of Post-War Urban Regeneration on Colombo’s Working-Class Poor’, a free online BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis & the Psychosocial Study Group seminar, now takes place on 3 November tinyurl.com/5n8zwwyj

Book now for ‘Tracing the Multi-scalar Impacts of Post-War Urban Regeneration on Colombo’s Working-Class Poor’, a free online BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis & the Psychosocial Study Group seminar, this Monday, 3 November tinyurl.com/5n8zwwyj

Teachers: looking for innovative ways to improve #DataLiteracy? Bring data to life in the classrooms with the ONS Data Challenge, where 16+ sociology students take on a challenge using real-life data and statistics. Deadline: 7 November Sign up now: tinyurl.com/yv3cvdaa

Are you interested in how social science contributes to understanding our contemporary human world? Join us on 12 Nov to hear insights from Prof Linda Bauld, @michaelldavis.bsky.social, @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, @profrosiemc.bsky.social & Will Hutton. ➡️ acss.civiplus.net/civicrm/even...

Call for Papers: the Journal of Work, Employment and Society. A special issue of Work, Employment and Society is welcoming paper submissions.

The Journal of Work, Employment and Society is inviting research submissions for a special issue co-edited by Prof. Kim Allen.

Open for:
📖 Research articles
📚 Book Reviews
🎓 PhD showcases
📰 On the Front Line articles
⏱️ Submission Deadline: 27 February 2026 @ 17:00

https://ow.ly/muVl50XkflV

🎉📃👑Yay & huge congrats to Susie Scott, Prof of Sociology at @sussex.ac.uk, named an SRO Sage Prize winner with co-author Nina Lockwood for 'Nested Narratives: Biographical Accounts of Unlived Experience Across Three Narrative Orders' said to be "remarkable for its intellectual innovation"....

Image text says: Congratulations to this year’s SRO Sage Prize winners, Susie Scott and Nina Lockwood! Read 'Nested Narratives: Biographical Accounts of Unlived Experience Across Three Narrative Orders' below: https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231184353

Congratulations to this year’s SRO Sage Prize winners, Susie Scott and Nina Lockwood!

Read 'Nested Narratives: Biographical Accounts of Unlived Experience Across Three Narrative Orders' below:
doi.org/10.1177/1360...

@bsmspcph.bsky.social, @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social, @sussexfss.bsky.social