Submit your abstracts now for our Family, Relationships and the Environment webinar with the brilliant @c_l_walker & Lynn Jamieson Short papers, research ideas and WIPs encouraged. Abstract deadline=15 March. Event=18 May (online) Full details: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa… Pls RT

Next FaR Reading Group announced: Friday 28th April 2023 1.30pm-2.30pm (BST). Reading: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… For teams link, email Lara (britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-g…)

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Less than a month now till our webinar (Family Relationships and the Environment). 18 May 12.30-15.30. Looking at the abstracts, we can see it's going to be a great discussion! Don't forget to book here: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

Keele supporters, staff, students, and alumni, WE NEED YOU! Please sign our open letter against management's 50% pay deductions for action short of a strike. These threats are disproportionate & deliberately designed to undermine trade union action docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Just a few days left to register for our FAR webinar on Families, Relationships and the Environment. Register here: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa… by 15 May. Event on 18 May. With @c_l_walker Lynn Jamieson @alisonstenning Ghurni Bhattacharya @LucieMiddlemiss Kaveri Qureshi & more! Pls RT

Join us on Fri 22 Sept 1-2pm for our first FAR reading group meeting of the new academic year. The reading will be Luotonen's (2022) Temporalities of Friendship: Adults’ Friends in Everyday Family Life and Beyond journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Please DM for the Teams meeting link.

Call for Papers!! Submit an abstract for our 30th Anniversary Special Issue. Explore and revisit debates that have made a mark in the landscape of sociology through SRO. More details below. britsoc.co.uk/media/26320/sr…

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Join us Fri 20 Oct 1-2pm (new, rescheduled date), reading: Luotonen's (2022) Temporalities of Friendship: Adults’ Friends in Everyday Family Life and Beyond journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…… Please DM for Teams meeting link / email lway at lincoln.ac.uk

📚New book: FAMILIES - @VanessaLKMay Out now in the Policy Press 'Key Concepts series, in paperback, hardback, ebook, with free exam copies for lecturers. bit.ly/families-book

📢NEW book: FAMILIES by @VanessaLKMay Exploring ideas of 'family' in different socio-cultural contexts, & its intersections with the economy, state and labour market. Part of Polity 'Key Concepts' series bit.ly/families-book

We have reopened submissions for abstracts! We are looking for abstracts that engage with 30 years of SRO history, reflecting on the impact articles and authors have had or a recognition of thematic absences in our publication. New deadline 30 November! britsoc.co.uk/media/26320/sr…

Kickstart 2024 by submitting an abstract for our upcoming workshop with the BSA Human Repro study group. Deadline = 15 Jan.

🚨NEW: Two in three research staff in UK universities are employed on fixed-term contracts Today's report exposes the widespread use of gig-economy style contracts for the staff who prop up university research departments. Read the full report here: ucu.org.uk/article/13444/…

The fantastic programme for the BSA webinar: Families Relationships, Religious and Non-religious Perspectives is now available. View it and register here: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

FINAL CALL to register for our in person workshop on Personal Relationships and Reproductive Technologies. DMU on 1 March. Registration deadline = tomorrow. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

Book now for ‘Caring is Sharing? Couples navigating parental leave at the transition to parenthood’, a free online BSA FAR Study Group Group webinar, 10 January tinyurl.com/339k8y24 #sociology

Call for papers by 25 March for ‘Doing Research Differently: Methodological Creativity and Innovation in the Sociology of Families and Relationships’ a BSA FAR Study Group event, 12 June, University of the West of England, Bristol tinyurl.com/2t7sp5a9