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The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funds research and training in social and economic issues. ESRC is a non-departmental public body principally funded through the Science Budget by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. One of seven research councils in the UK.

Founded in 1951, our members are drawn from a wide range of backgrounds - research, teaching, students and practitioners in a variety of fields. The BSA provides a network of communication to all who are concerned with the promotion and use of sociology and sociological research.

For more than 50 years the BJS has represented the mainstream of sociological thinking and research. Consistently ranked highly by the ISI in Sociology, this prestigious, international journal publishes sociological scholarship of the highest quality on all aspect of the discipline, by academics from all over the world.