Events
Forthcoming Events
10 January 2025 (1-2pm GMT)
Book talk: Caring is Sharing? Couples navigating parental leave at the transition to parenthood
Online
BSA Families and Relationships Online Reading Group
The Reading Group meets the last Thursday of every month, please contact the Convenors to request the link.
Previous Reading Group Meetings
15 March 2024 (13:00-16:30 GMT)
Families, Relationships, Religious and Non-religious Perspectives
An online symposium co-organised by Dr Morena Tartari, Babeș-Bolyai University and Dr Hamide Elif Üzümcü, University of Padua, hosted by the BSA Families and Relationships Study Group
Online
1 March 2024 (9.30am-2pm)
Personal Relationships and Reproductive Technologies
Co-hosted by the BSA Human Reproduction and Families and Relationships Study Groups
De Montfort University, Leicester
18 May 2023 (12.30-15.30)
Family, Relationships and the Environment: An online symposium hosted by the BSA Families and Relationships Study Group
Online
Thursday, 26 January 2.00pm-3.00pm
Hall, S. M. (2022). Social reproduction, labour and austerity: Carrying the future. The Sociological Review, 0(0).
https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221135753
Thursday, 29 September 2022 13.00-14.00
Reading: Edwards, R et al – 2021. Small Stories of Home Moves: A Gendered and Generational Breadth-and-Depth Investigation. Sociological Research Online, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13607804211042033
Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:00 – 17:00
Reading: Lewis, C. and May, V. (2020) ‘Material–temporal registers of belonging: Theorising the interplay between temporality and the built environment’, Time & society, 29(1), pp. 28–50. doi: 10.1177/0961463X19873801.
Thursday, 26 May 2022 16:00 – 17:00
Reading: Cantó-Milà, N. and Seebach, S. (2015) ‘Desired images, regulating figures, constructed imaginaries: The future as an apriority for society to be possible’, Current Sociology, 63(2), pp. 198–215. doi: 10.1177/0011392114556583.
Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:00 – 17:00
Reading: Gunnarsson, L. (2016) ‘The Dominant and its Constitutive Other: Feminist Theorizations of Love, Power and Gendered Selves’, Journal of Critical Realism, 15(1), pp. 1-20. doi: 10.1080/14767430.2015.1136194
If you have any suggestions for readings you would like to discuss in the group, please email Katherine.twamley@ucl.ac.uk
Event Videos
Decolonialising Families and Relationships, Webinar 3 held on Friday, 18 June 2021 with Jo Britton, Julie Walsh, Asma Khan, Fallon Tiffany Cabral and Hannah Jones. Please check out our 'webinar series' tab for further info about the series.
Decolonising Families and Relationships Studies with Dr Natalia Concha-Arango, Sherilyn Deen and Briony Campbell was held on 24 March 2021. Please check out our 'webinar series' tab for further info about the series.
Decolonising Families and Relationships Studies with Prof Vrushali Patil, Dr Shannon Philip, Prof Allen Kim, Dr Mona Roehm took place on 26 November 2020. Please check out our 'webinar series' tab for further info about the series.
We welcome ideas from our members for events. Please contact Julie Walsh to discuss.
Some suggested formats:
Day Conferences
The day conferences encourage critical dialogue on key concepts, notably 'families', 'intimacies' and 'personal relationships', exploring the usefulness of these concepts in making sense of contemporary practices. The day conferences typically feature presentations from leading and emerging scholars, with structured group discussion. Previous day conferences have been published as Special Issue journals.
Workshops
The workshops will provide a dialogic environment where current and proposed research ideas can be presented. They will aim to build up connections between established and 'next generation' researchers. Workshops will be jointly co-ordinated with University based research centres around the UK.
BSA Annual Conference
The BSA Annual Conference has been reformatted and is now structured around a substantive conference theme and concurrent Study Group strands. Group conveners are responsible for the selection of conference abstracts, including a diversity of research across the fields of study. We convene a Families and Relationships Study Group meeting at the conference, attempting to extend membership of the group and to allow us to reflect on our scheduled programme of activities.