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Sociology Study Groups

The BSA currently operates a network of more than 40 varied study groups, each focusing on a specific area of interest within sociology.

 

Click on any of the study groups listed below for more information. Any BSA member who would like to initiate or start a new study group should first consider the areas of interest already covered by existing study groups, as many topics could be incorporated by these groups.

 

Study Group

Convenor(s)

Alcohol

Patsy Staddon

Ageing, Body & Society

Wendy Martin
Julia Twigg

Animal/Human

Rhoda Wilkie

Auto/Biography

Gill Clarke

Michael Erben (T)

Bourdieu

Nicola Ingram
Ciaran Burke
Jenny Thatcher

Childhood

Chris Lancucki

Climate Change

Elizabeth Shove

Tom Hargreaves (T)

Education

Richard Waller

David Mellor

Families & Relationships

Val Gillies
Yvette Taylor

Food/SCOFF (Scottish Colloquium on Food and Feeding)

Tess Baxter

Rebecca O'Connell

Andrea Tonner

Gender

Zowie Davy

Sally Hines

Happiness

Mark Cieslik

Laura Hyman

Alexandra Jugureanu

David Frayne

Human Reproduction

Laura Machin

Samantha Murphy

Leisure & Recreation

Emma Casey

Alan Tomlinson

Media

Julian Matthews

Medical Sociology

Kate Weiner

Catherine Will

Museums & Society

Gaynor Bagnall (T)

Race & Ethnicity

Michael Banton

Nirmal Puwar

Shamser Sinha

Realism & Social Research

Bob Carter

Dave Elder-Vass

Religion

Abby Day

Sarah-Jane Page

Janet Eccles (T)

Risk & Society

Jacqueline Davies

Chris McCourt

Jo Warner

Scottish

Kirsteen Paton
Teresa Piacentini

Sexual Divisions

Mehreen Mirza

Social and Public Policy

Angharad Beckett

Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement

Kate Woodthorpe

Social Network Analysis Group (SNAG)

Felix Behling

Sociologists Outside Academia (SOA)

Annika Coughlin

Tiffany Jenkins

Phil Jones

Stuart Winchester

Sociology of Rights

Michele Lamb

Patricia Hynes

Matthew Waites

Damien Short

Hannah Miller

Sociology, Psychoanalysis and the Psychosocial

Peter Redman

Sasha Roseneil

Sport

Dominic Malcolm

John Horne

Theory

Gurminder K Bhambra

Steve Kemp (T)

Urban Theory and Research

Robin Smith

Violence Against Women

Natalie Hammond

Carol Rivas

Visual Sociology

Paul Sweetman

Weber

Sam Whimster

Work, Employment & Economic Life

Vanessa Beck

Tim Strangleman

Tracey Warren

Youth

Rachel Brooks
Sian Lincoln

Steve Roberts

 

Medical, Regional & Sub-Groups

 

London

Richard Compton

Jacqueline Davies
Miranda Leontowitsch (T)

East Midlands

Paula Saukko

North East

Sally Brown

Janet Shucksmith

North West

 

Donna Bramwell

Victoria Foster

Sociology of Mental Health

Lydia Lewis

Angela Cotton

South West

Anthony Gilbert

Gayle Letherby

Wales

Sara MacBride-Stewart
Susan Philpin

Julia Cutmore

West Midlands

Geraldine Brady

Pamela Lowe

(T) denotes group Treasurer.


Want to set-up and run a new Study Group?  Then read Study Group Terms of Reference.

 

Questions can be directed to the BSA.

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