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British Sociological Association (BSA) - Early Career Forum
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The Early Career Forum (ECF) is a BSA working group that addresses the needs of early-career sociologists. This forum recognizes the challenges facing early-career sociologists and provides various opportunities to help them overcome those barriers.
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British Sociological Association (BSA) - Early Career Forum @bsaecf.bsky.social · Jan 20
if you're an ecr member of the bsa who would like your recent work highlighted on our page, please email the moderator so we can promote it!
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✏️ 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 12 November 13:00–14:30 for insights!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) Scotland Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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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...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) Scotland Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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✏️ 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 12 November 13:00–14:30 for insights!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) Scotland Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) Scotland Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📢 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
Nominations
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October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Join us on 30 Jan 2026 (2–3 pm GMT) for the BSA webinar on applying for postdoctoral research funding with Dr Fei Huang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) & Prof Katherine Twamley (Professor of Sociology). Get tips on proposals, applications, mentors & more! Book now:
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Applying for Postdoctoral Research Funding as an Early Career Scholar
www.britsoc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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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...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) England Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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✏️ 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...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) England Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
bsaecf.bsky.social
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...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) England Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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✨New article alert✨In her latest piece, Alexandrina Vanke introduces an avant-garde methodology that develops multi-sited ethnography of everyday life. Curious about using drawing and sketching in research, writing ethnography and creative dissemination?
Read here doi.org/10.1177/1360...
Multi-Sited Ethnography: Developing Avant-Garde Methodology for Creative Research Into Everyday Lives - Alexandrina Vanke, 2025
This article argues for the need to develop multi-sited ethnography as an avant-garde methodology that combines classic methods of observation and interviewing ...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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✏️ 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...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) England Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
bsaecf.bsky.social
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...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) England Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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🚨🚨 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...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) England Workshop
www.britsoc.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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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...
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: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/publications-opportunities/#_soc
June 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Take part in our new research project on police in schools - please share 👇🏿
ethnicityuk.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · Jun 24
We’re collecting testimonies on policing in schools across England.

Students, parents, carers, teachers, youth workers & others — if you’ve got a perspective, we want to hear from you. WhatsApp, email, or online form 👇🏿. Pls share 🙏🏿
#PoliceInSchools www.ethnicity.ac.uk/school-policing/
Repeats text in post plus 'have you seen police in and around a school? have you had experiences with police at or near school?'
June 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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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
June 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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
June 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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
June 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A great opportunity! Please submit your application by 13th June to become an editorial board member of the BJSE!
June 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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🌟 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
June 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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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
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
June 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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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
Inequality in the 21st century
Join us to discuss global wealth and income inequality with Professor Mike Savage.
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June 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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/...
May 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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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/...
May 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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
Suspect citizenship: rethinking belonging and non-belonging in plural societies
Free LSE public event in exploring citizenship with Dr Jean Beaman and Dr Kristin Surak.
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May 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM