The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

This article draws attention to the ethical and methodological complexities of internal confidentiality in family research and provides field-specific recommendations. Conducting individual (rather t...

Objective This study examines unmarried Chinese people's preferred characteristics of a spouse and how the preferences vary by gender and across socioeconomic groups. Background Extensive research...

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The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

Bias in machine learning (ML) applications represents systematic differences between expected and actual values of the predicted outputs, such that certain individuals or groups are systematically an...

Abstract. Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in

We are pleased to announce that BSA members have elected Professor Imogen Tyler as our next Vice President. Imogen is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at...

We are delighted to confirm that Professor Les Back has taken up the role of BSA President, stepping up from Vice President. Many members will know Les’s work and his...

What are the implications of the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment and hiring for organizational inequalities? While advocates suggest ...

As of 2025, 85% of the world population lives in countries typically associated with the Global South. Fifty percent of the world’s population is unde…

Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia.

Rapid digitalization has unleashed widespread digital concerns, namely concerns about the potential harms associated with digital technology use, such as privacy loss, blurred work-family boundarie...

Considering doing a Master's degree in Sociology? For the first time in the 200-year history of UCL, and after several years in the making, the UCL Social Research Institute has just formally launch...

Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...

The WFRN Welcomes 2026 Early Career Fellowship Recipients! To date, 170 early-career scholars have participated in the WFRN’s Early Career Fellowship Program. This program is designed to deliver a var...

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