Events
30 June 2025
Beyond the ‘archival turn’: Making and using sociological archives - A BSA Early Career Regional Funded Symposium
Sir Bob Burgess Building, University of Leicester, UK
28 July 2025 (9.30am-5.00pm BST)
Workshop on Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education for Early Career and Postgraduate Scholars - A BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event
Room 2.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building (CMB), University of Edinburgh, UK
23 September 2025 (9.30am-4pm BST)
Innovative and Inclusive Methods in the Sociology of Health and Wellbeing - A BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event
The Great Hall, Northumbria University, UK
Past Events
16 June 2025 (10.30am-6.30pm BST)
Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors
Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
13 June 2025
Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities: Developing a Sociological Lens for EDI Research in the AI Era
Swansea University, UK
23 May 2025
The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory - A BSA Early Career Regional Funded Symposium (organised by the BSA Theory Study Group)
University of Cambridge, UK
13 May 2025
Academia Across Borders: Experiences and Challenges of International Academics in the UK
Newcastle University, UK
21 March 2025 (10am–3.30pm)
Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?
Newcastle University, UK
1 May 2024 (09:30–17:00)
Querying the Effectiveness of the Social Mobility Agenda
University of Derby, Kedleston Road campus, DE22 1GB - Room B102
26 April 2024 (8am-7pm)
Radical Mothering in Europe: Everyday Forms of Resistance
University of Warwick, UK (Hybrid)
11 April 2024
Bridging Gaps: Fostering Social Justice in Academic Transitions for International and At-Risk Scholars
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
24 January 2024
Digital Transformations of Work and Employment in the Professions
Leeds University Business School, Leeds, LS2 9JT
10 July 2023
Critical Realism for Early Career Researchers
Nottingham Trent University, UK
6 June 2023
Co-producing research – a ‘mini-sandpit’ for ECRs
University College London
16 July 2022
Climate Change, Environment and Forced Mobility
Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham, UK
9 June 2022
Out of the Armchair! Exploring 'Uncomfortable' Qualitative Methods for a Changing World (A BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event in partnership with the Swansea School of Management Centre for People and Organisation)
Swansea University School of Management
6 June 2022
Racing Class/Classing Race: New Directions in the Sociology of Education
Brunel University London
6 June 2022
Disseminating Research to a Non-Academic Audience - Creating Pathways to impact in Sociological Research (Hybrid Event)
University of York
31 May 2022
How can I steer my Academic Career in my preferred direction? A free event for early to mid-career BSA Members
Online
28 April 2022
Doing Creative and Participatory Methods
University of Lincoln, UK
20 January 2021
Who’s Here? Who’s Queer?: Making space for Queer ECRs in Academia
Online
9-10 September 2021
Towards Greater Food? Taking Stock of Food Support in the COVID-19 Crisis
Online
1 July 2021
Situating Austerity: The impact of locality on lived experience in austere times
University of Gloucestershire, via Zoom
21 June 2021
Emerging Challenges in Digital Ageing
Online
14 November 2019
The Listening Guide in Feminist Narrative Research
Heritage Quay, Schwann Building, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
Breaking the System: Using Imagination and Hope to Navigate Early Career Academia
BSA Meeting Room, Durham, UK
New research agendas for the study of sports media (re)presentation(s) of sportswomen and femininity
Northumbria University City Campus, UK
Generations, socialisation, and adult identity
Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Creating diverse coalitions for equality in neoliberal times: Locating the emancipatory city?
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
‘Imposter Syndrome’ as a Public Feeling in Higher Education
School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
'Getting Ethics': ethics as practice and praxis
Bangor University, North Wales, UK
4 May 2018
Between the discourse of ‘resilience’ and death by committee – Reclaiming collective spaces for academic resistance
Newcastle University, UK
University of Glasgow, UK
17 July 2017
Romantic relationships in a time of 'cold intimacies'
Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Public Sociology as Pedagogy, Research and Practice: Threats and Opportunities Today
Nottingham Trent University, UK
20 June 2017
Caring for Ourselves and Others as Early Career Academics - EVENT REPORT
University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
9 May 2017
Belonging in a post-Brexit-vote Britain: researching race, ethnicity and migration in a changing landscape
The University of Sheffield, UK - EVENT REPORT
2 May 2017
Transnational education at a juncture: Sociological futures post-Brexit
Keele University, UK
University of Strathclyde, UK
One-day Symposium: Early Career Feminist Academics' Experiences of the Academy
University of Birmingham, UK
What next for childhood studies? Pushing boundaries
University of Edinburgh, UK
Ethnography in Action: Bouncers, Boxers and Drug Dealers
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Demystifying the 'insider/outsider', 'involvement/detachment' debate – Locating the Researcher in Qualitative Methodologies
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Policy engagement - how to have an impact on policy debate and policy-making?
University of Bath, UK
Embodied citizenship: Mediating the state through the self
University of Nottingham, UK