British Sociological Association (BSA) - Early Career Forum

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I have been writing little field notes from getting out and making the case for sociology in schools and FE colleges. This one is from Prince William School in Oundle. @bsaecf.bsky.social

Educating the Non-Traditional Learner: The Want, the Need, and the Demand for Inclusive Learning in the 21st Century 📍 London School of Science and Technology 🗓 3 September 2026 | 10:00am-3:00pm BST 🔗 More details, abstract submission dates and registration info: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Upcoming in-person event: One-day workshop on the Sociology of Work and Wellbeing 📍 Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford (UK) 🗓 18 September 2026 | 10:00am-6:00pm BST 🔗 More info and registration: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Upcoming online event: Theorising from Lived Experience: An Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers 23 September 2026 (9.30am-3.30pm BST) Registration here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Please feel free to share with colleagues, researchers and others who may be interested.

How can we move beyond precarity in academia? Join us on 4 June at Newcastle University Business School for a regional event bringing early career researchers together to share ideas and imagine more sustainable academic futures. Register here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 is NEXT Week 🚨🚨 🔈 Learn about teaching scholarship. 🔈 Get publication guidance from experts. 🔈 Turn your pedagogy into publications. 🎶 Attend the ECF Workshop on 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 🙌 See you there!

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 Announcement 🚨🚨 ⁉️ Early-career sociologist? ⁉️ Attending this year's BSA Conference? ⁉️ Want to learn how to turn pedagogy into publications? 👉 Then, attend the ECF Workshop on 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 🙌 See you there!

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 Announcement 🚨🚨 ⁉️ Early-career sociologist? ⁉️ Attending this year's BSA Conference? ⁉️ Want to learn how to turn pedagogy into publications? 👉 Then, attend the ECF Workshop on 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 🙌 See you there!

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 Announcement 🚨🚨 👉 Ever wonder how to turn pedagogy into publications? 👉 Prof. Peter Khan (former editor of Teaching in HE) and Dr. Eileen Pollard (MMU) will tell you how during an interactive workshop 👉 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 📢 See you there!

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

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...

✏️ 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: 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

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/...

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 buff.ly/sM4Uta3

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

We're keen to ensure a smooth transition by passing on what we've learnt over the past 3 years. We invite expressions of interest from individuals or teams to join the current team in July, with the expectation that the newly appointed convenors would take over the group's leadership from July 2026.

However brilliant the ideas and social theories we read about and are inspired by, there is a glaring gap, surely. What does sociology mean by social structure? Jon Eastwood here offers a much-needed, thoroughgoing and accessible account of sociology’s central concept ↓ www.politybooks.com/...

In autumn 1962 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture on fighting antisemitism to the German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, a lecture that remains as topical and urgent today as it was in the 1960s. Now published in English: www.politybooks.com/...

Are you an AI evangelist, sceptic, or agnostic? Explore AI in a research context at ‘Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities: Developing a Sociological Lens for EDI Research in the AI Era’, a BSA Early Career Regional Funded event, 13 June, Swansea tinyurl.com/5eymz7e6

Get a better understanding of the politics of journal publication – book now for ‘Demystifying the Politics of Interdisciplinary Journal Publication’, a free BSA Postgraduate Forum event, 15 May, University of Edinburgh tinyurl.com/554t7f6n #sociology

As the major driver of US demographic change, Latina/os are reshaping the social, economic, political & cultural landscape of the country. Don’t miss what Edward Telles calls “the most comprehensive & up-to-date reference on this often misunderstood population.” It’s OUT NOW ↓

📢📢 Upcoming ECF regional event at University of Leicester 📢📢 Beyond the ‘archival turn’: Making and using sociological archives 30 June 2025 (09:30-17:00 BST) Registration will open soon. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

📢📢 Upcoming ECF regional event at Oxford University 📢📢 Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors 16 June 2025 (10.30am-6.30pm BST) The event is free to attend, but registration is required due to limited space. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

📢📢 Upcoming ECF regional event at Swansea University 📢📢 Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities: Developing a Sociological Lens for EDI Research in the AI Era 13 June 2025 (9:30AM – 17:00) This will be an in-person event only. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...