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2017
- May
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April
- People who want to prevent immigration to the UK are less happy than those who welcome it
- People are less likely to attend religious services regularly if their income rises, research shows
- Rise of foodie culture leaves working class behind, research says
- £30 million UK government programme to improve Nigeria’s police force failed because of corruption
- Rape victims lose out on compensation because of convictions for minor offences such as TV licence non-payment
- Most couples remain happy with their sex lives into their 60s, research says
- ‘Instagram killed the graffiti star’ as rich kids take their art online
- The Academy of Social Sciences has conferred the award of Fellow on 47 leading social scientists
- Sara Arber wins BSA Distinguished Service to British Sociology award
- Privately educated women four times more likely to marry a man who was privately educated
- Football agents are jeopardising players’ careers by going behind their backs, research says
- Books about self-injury and an African-Caribbean football club win prestigious sociology prize
- The BSA Postgraduate Forum is looking for two new convenors to join the team
- Work, Employment and Society Announces 2017 SAGE Prize Nominees
- ESRC Grants Assessment Panel appointments 2017
- A warm and lively annual conference
- Ethics of Digital Research
- Free Book Giveaway - Football, Ethnicity and Community: The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club
- Recovering the Social: revisiting the more than personal of personal life
- Study Groups Update
- Rosemary Crompton Memorial Lecture 2017 - Class and Work in post-crisis Britain
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March
- Call for New BSA Trustees
- The Feminization of Sports Fandom: A Sociological Study - new book publication
- Digital Sociology Study Group Seeks New Convenors
- The Realism & Social Research Study Group Need You
- BSA Theory Study Group – Call for Convenors
- Women do more housework than men even when their partners are unemployed
- Two sociologists appointed to ESRC Council
- Work, Employment and Society Reopens Call for Editors
- Campaign for Social Science is seeking a new Chair
- Special Section on Class and Christianity published in Sociological Research Online
- BSA responds to HEFCE’s REF consultation
- Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017 Shortlist Announced
- BSA member is joint winner ESRC writing competition
- New Sociological Imaginations
- Exploring new ideas and inspirations at the Annual Conference
- Recalling John Urry
- Book Giveaway: Stuart Hall – Selected Political Writings
- The Power of Association
- Philip Abrams Memorial Prize - shortlist announced
- Provocative and accessible new book series
- BSA President writes to Hungarian Government over future of Central European University
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February
- British Sociological Association - a statement on US travel and refugee bans
- Sociology of Religion Conference 2018 - call for organising team
- We're recruiting a Part-time Public Engagement Development Officer
- A sociologist in the archives - applications invited for new Early Career Fellowship
- Interested in Scottish Sociology?
- Why is BSA Membership Important to You?
- Call for Papers: Solidarities in and through Work in an Age of Extremes
- Free Book Giveaway: Gender & Sexuality
- Be Bold for Change - the importance of international campaigning and solidarity
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January
- Academy and Campaign publish briefing on Higher Education and Research Bill ahead of Lords debate
- The death of Zygmunt Bauman 9/1/17
- Vacancies: Members of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology
- The only way is ethics: free online course to tackle 'ethically unsound' research
- New Features Available on the SAGE Journals Platform
- Sociology publishes a new special issue: Global Futures and Epistemologies of the South
- Sociological Research Online is now seeking additional members for the Editorial Board!
- Nominees for the 2017 Sociology SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence Announced
- 2017 - Let's tackle this together
- Book Giveaway: Retrotopia
- Would You Like Your Work Featured on the BSA Website?
- Zygmunt Bauman: 1925-2017
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2016
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September
- Having a visible tattoo can help job seekers find employment, research says
- Unpaid internships little help in getting creative graduates good jobs, research says
- More people believe the unemployed are workshy and fiddling the system, research says
- Unemployment effects hit white men hard, research says
- Companies with fewer staff aged over 50 have higher productivity
- Being positive linked to lower chance of dying, study says
- BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017
- Free access to Medical Sociology from Taylor & Francis
- TWO new websites for the BSA!
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- BSA/BBC Ethnography Prize - Call for Entries
- Alternative White Paper for Higher Education
- BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize - Now Open
- BSA Youth Study Group - Call for Postgraduate Convenor
- Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award - Call for Nominations
- Teaching Group National A Level Sociology Competition for Students Now Launched
- FSHI Book Prize Winner 2016 Announced
- Announcing the WES 2016 SAGE Prize Winner!
- Invitation to Celebrate 50 Volumes of Sociology
- Free Access to Sociology during October
- Work, Employment and Society Conference Round-up
- Annual Medical Sociology Conference 2016
- New Sociology Doctorate? Tell Us!
- The Academy of Social Sciences publishes its views on the government's Higher Education and Research Bill
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April
- 'Cultural transformation' as Muslim girls out-perform boys academically, research says
- Internships no help to graduates trying to find good jobs, research says
- Forcing unemployed to do voluntary work 'unlikely' to improve their mental health, research says
- Educated Muslim women much less likely to be in professional jobs than white women
- Men on Tinder think they have a 'licence to use unattractive women as they see fit'
- Top soccer players are under-performing because of gambling, research says
- Books about the English Defence League and women's sporting roller skating win sociology prize
- Britons more likely to think they are working class than people in other countries, research says
- Social housing tenants depend on money from friends, family and neighbours to make ends meet
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2017
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April
- Rise of foodie culture leaves working class behind, research says
- People are less likely to attend religious services regularly if their income rises, research shows
- People who want to prevent immigration to the UK are less happy than those who welcome it
- £30 million UK government programme to improve Nigeria’s police force failed because of corruption
- Rape victims lose out on compensation because of convictions for minor offences such as TV licence non-payment
- Most couples remain happy with their sex lives into their 60s, research says
- Privately educated women four times more likely to marry a man who was privately educated
- Football agents are jeopardising players’ careers by going behind their backs, research says
- Books about self-injury and an African-Caribbean football club win prestigious sociology prize
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April
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September
- Unpaid internships little help in getting creative graduates good jobs, research says
- Having a visible tattoo can help job seekers find employment, research says
- More people believe the unemployed are workshy and fiddling the system, research says
- Unemployment effects hit white men hard, research says
- Companies with fewer staff aged over 50 have higher productivity
- Being positive linked to lower chance of dying, study says
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May
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Growing up in rural areas leads to a lower earnings ‘pay penalty’, research says
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