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Sociological Research Online

Published in Association with British Sociological Association

eISSN: 13607804 | ISSN: 13607804 | Current volume: 29 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly

As of 1st August 2017, Sociological Research Online (SRO) is published by the BSA and SAGE and all journal content is available via the SAGE Journals platform.

If you are a reader based outside an academic institution, please contact sro.journal@britsoc.org.uk to gain free individual access to SRO. If you are a member of an academic institution, we encourage you to access the journal via your institutional library.

Sociological Research Online is:

• fully peer reviewed and permanently archived
• recognised by the Research Excellence Framework
• indexed by the ISI, IBSS, Sociological Abstracts and other major abstracting and indexing services
• managed by the British Sociological Association and SAGE Publishing

SRO was launched as the first online-only peer-reviewed sociology journal in 1996. Readers can enjoy direct access to original qualitative and quantitative audio, visual and video data, thematic special sections and rapid response calls.

The journal is published quarterly and all articles are fully peer reviewed by a distinguished Editorial Board. We publish theoretically engaged and empirically rich articles across a wide range of sociological topics using both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Rapid Response/Sociology Online
SRO was one of the first journals to make electronic publishing a reality and has innovated new ways of publishing and communicating. One such innovation has been the introduction of rapid response publishing where sociologists have been invited to contribute to sociological debates about topics in the public arena. These have included collections on the themes of the Stephen Lawrence murder enquiry, war and genocide in relation to the Kosovo conflict, the genetic modification of food, the future of Sociology and Sociology and prediction. These are published alongside regular issues.

Thematic Collections
These innovative collections bring together articles, reviews and research resources published in earlier issues, gathered together around particular themes. The contents change and collections grow as new material is published. These collections have proved to be ideal for lecturers to include on reading lists and for students who are studying particular aspects of sociology.

Sociological Research Online is an international, peer-reviewed journal published in English that promotes rapid communication among sociologists without limitation of topic or approach. It publishes high quality applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions that engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates. Articles published by Sociological Research Online are concerned with the application of sociological forms of analysis to a wide range of public issues and private concerns, thereby demonstrating the wide social relevance of sociological research and theory to understanding contemporary social issues.

Editor in Chief
Sam Hillyard University of Lincoln, UK
Christian Karner University of Lincoln, UK
Editors
Edmund Coleman-Fountain University of York, UK
Rachela Colosi University of Lincoln, UK
Ian Lamond Leeds Beckett University, UK
Yuwei Lin University of Roehampton, UK
James Pattison University of Lincoln, UK
Laura Way University of Roehampton, UK
Review Editors
Roderick Condon Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Tamanna Shah Ohio University, USA
Edwin van Teijlingen Bournemouth University, UK
Chair
Elizabeth Ettorre Emerita Professor, University of Liverpool
Founder
Nigel Gilbert, CBE University of Surrey, UK
Publications Coordinator
Selina Hisir British Sociological Association, UK
Editorial Board
Sadiya Akram Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Katherine Appleford University for the Creative Arts, UK
Giorgos Bithymitris National Centre for Social Research, Greece
Geraldine Brown Coventry University, UK
Raffaella Monia Calia University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Julia Carter University of the West of England, UK
Gözde Cöbek Kadir Has University, Turkiye
Tracey Collett Plymouth University, UK
Stefanie Doebler Lancaster University, UK
Emeka Dumbili University College Dublin, Ireland
Talia Esnard University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Betsy Ettorre University of Liverpool, UK
Laura Fenton The University of Manchester, UK
Michela Franceschelli University College London, UK
Luisa Gandolfo University of Aberdeen, UK
Elena Genova University of Nottingham, UK
Deborah Giustini KU Leuven, Belgium
Shelene Gomes University of the West Indies, South Africa
Rita Grácio Lusófona University, Portugal
Mel Hall Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Emily Hansen University of Tasmania, Australia
Morteza Hashemi University of Nottingham, UK
Joseph Ibrahim Leeds Beckett University, UK
Akira Igarashi Osaka University, Japan
Suzana Ignjatovic Institute of Social Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Sazana Jayadeva University of Surrey, UK
Ece Kocabicak The Open University, UK
Helen Lomax University of Huddersfield, UK
Gavin Maclean Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Roda Madziva University of Nottingham, UK
Petra Makela London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Maree Martinussen University of Melbourne, Australia
Will Mason University of Sheffield, UK
Alejandro Miranda-Nieto Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Daniel Nehring Swansea University, UK
Kien Nguyen-Trung Monash University, Australia
Minna Nikunen University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Magali Peyrefitte Brunel University, UK
Stefanie Plage University of Queensland, Australia
Shuang Qiu Keele University, UK
Victoria Redclift University College London, UK
James Rhodes University of Manchester, UK
Balihar Sanghera University of Kent, UK
Maria Sapouna University of the West of Scotland, UK
Denisse Sepúlveda Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Bethany Simmonds Aberystwyth University, UK
Tracey Skillington University College Cork, Ireland
Daniel Smith Cardiff University, UK
Helene Snee Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Matthew Sparkes University of Cambridge, UK
Diana Teggi University of Bath, UK
Thomas Thurnell-Read Loughborough University, UK
Alexandrina Vanke The Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Maria Villares-Varela University of Southampton, UK
Michael Weinhardt German Centre of Gerontology, Germany
Andrew Whelan University of Wollongong, Australia
Yen Nee Wong University of Leeds, UK 
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