ECSR is a non-profit, scientific, professional organization that promotes theoretically driven empirical research in Sociology.
Activities
The ECSR organizes yearly conferences and annual graduate schools. It offers visitor grants for graduate students and awards a yearly prize for the best PhD thesis among candidates from the ECSR member institutes. It provides funding to organize thematic conferences and network workshop.
Members
Currently, more than 70 leading European academic institutions are members of the association.
The European Sociological Review (ESR) is the Consortium’s official journal.
news
- Prize to the Best Paper Published in the European Sociological Review in 2024 Announced at the ECSR Annual Conference in CologneAt the ECSR Annual Conference, held at the University of Cologne from September 3–5, 2025, the winner and runners-up of the ESR Best Article Award were officially announced. The ESR Best Article of 2025 Award was presented to Georg Kanitsar for his paper “Leaving the bike unlocked: trust discrimination in inter-ethnic encounters”. The jury praised … Read more
- Prize for the Best PhD Thesis of the Year 2025 Announced at the ECSR Annual Conference in CologneAt the ECSR Annual Conference, held at the University of Cologne from September 3–5, 2025, the winners of the ECSR Prize for the Best PhD Thesis of the Year were officially announced. The 1st prize was awarded to Said Hassan for his thesis “Residential Segregation, School Contexts, and Educational Inequalities”. Two theses received 2nd prize … Read more
- ESR Best Reviewer AwardSince 2024, the European Sociological Review awards the Best Reviewer Award. The criteria of the award are the quality and timeliness of the review(s) in the previous year, as well as the overall reviews record. This years winners are: Said Hassan, Katya Ivanova and Nicole Schwitter.
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