📢 #ISAforum25 Call for Abstracts is now open! Check out the sessions of RC06 (Family research) in this link 🔗isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2… Follow ISA for more updates!!!

Exciting times! We’re accepting proposals for the International Creative Research Methods Conference, happening on Mon 8th - Tues 9th Sept 2025 in Manchester, UK. Learn more at: creativeresearchmethods.com Submission deadline: Friday 6th December 2024 #ICRMC #CRMethods #ICRMC25

Congrats to our LP&R - @leavenetwork.bsky.social team on the 20th anniversary issue of this important resource on #parentalleaves and care leaves Sonja Blum Ivana Dobrotic Gayle Kaufman Alison Koslowski & Peter Moss UCL Sociology Network TCRU at UCL IOE and Marie Valentova

We're delighted to kick off the academic year at CSWG with a fascinating f2f talk by maud perrier, titled "Refuse, Limit, Redirect: Care Workers’ Struggles for Value and the Feminist Critic of Social Reproduction". Join us on Oct 23rd, 3pm - details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociol…

Fun Palaces Moseley Hive Economic and Social Research Council Aston Sociology and Policy Aston University PR Roswitha Chesher Birmingham Citizens Visit Birmingham & West Midlands Birmingham Culture I Choose Birmingham Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) Birmingham LGBT+ Centre @AstonUniRKE Birmingham Arts

We're excited to welcome Jacqueline Priego Hernandez (Jacqueline Priego ☕), as one of our keynote speaker for #ICRMC25 on 8-9 Sep 25! PLUS, the proposals are already rolling in, and we can't wait to see yours next. Learn more: creativeresearchmethods.com #CFP #ICRMC

This looks great from Katherine Twamley and Charlotte Faircloth - looking forward to a read

Join our panel of expert speakers from the four Women’s Budget Groups discussing the first budget from this Labour Government and its likely impact on women across England, Scotland, Wales, and NI. #Budget2024 wbg.org.uk/event/autumn-b…

The UK’s first ever female Chancellor has today delivered a budget with some promising green shoots for women. But we need greater ambition both on changes to taxes and on the levels and areas of investment, and on social security. Read our response here: wbg.org.uk/article/some-p…

New blog by SPA Family Policy Group! "Why we established a Family Policy Group for the Social Policy Association" Read more here, and contact the group to get involved if interested: social-policy.org.uk/spa-blog/famil…

Online book launch next week! Celebrating the publication of 'The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood' Policy Press with Bren Neale and discussants Owen Thomas from FutureMen and Dr Linzi Ladlow @drlinziladlow.bsky.social 28 Nov 12 - 1.30. Sign up here: flag.leeds.ac.uk/events/book-la…

Dads Survey 2024: Work-Life Balance Findings 🏠 51% of working dads say balancing work & family is difficult/very difficult—over twice the 2022 figure! 👶 45% of dads with babies under 1 feel they rarely have enough family time! Read full report: ➡️ bit.ly/3Z45Q8o

📣Call for Abstracts: WES Conference 2025📣 We are now accepting abstracts for the Work, Employment and Society Conference held in Manchester, 8-10 September 2025. Submit your abstract by 21 March 2025. Details can be found below. 🔗👇 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 21 March for ‘Continuities and Discontinuities in Work and Employment’, the BSA Work, Employment & Society Conference 2025, from 8-10 September at the University of Manchester tinyurl.com/3j52cdmm #Sociology #CFP

New brief by CCF members Richard Petts & Dr. Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan highlights how paternity leave strengthens families & gender equality, yet many US fathers lack access or fear career setbacks. It’s time for policies & workplaces to catch up! Read more: sites.utexas.edu/contemporaryfa…

Just 5% of eligible parents take shared parental leave in the UK: @Ktwamley explains why reform is 'sorely needed', and how to achieve it tinyurl.com/5n8xe5mz #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

You are invited to the Inaugural Lecture of FYFF Director Prof. Anna Tarrant (she/her) , Professor of Sociology 📅 Wednesday 26th March 2025 🕕18:00 – 19:00 (registration from 17:30) 📍University of Lincoln (MB0312) See full details and register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-le…

Study finds for women without children, an unequal division of cognitive labor (anticipating, filling and monitoring household needs) was a predictor of emotional exhaustion. For mothers, it was unequal child-care responsibilities. theconversation.com/all-women-not-…