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
- ECSR Visitor Grants 2027 — call soon openThe call for applications for ECSR Visitor Grants for research visits during the calendar year 2027 is open from 10 September 2026 to 23 October 2026. Applicants will be notified by the end of November 2026.ECSR offers approximately five Visitor Grants per calendar year to foster research visits of PhD students and young scholars from … Read more
- Prize for the Best PhD Thesis defended in 2025 was announced at the ECSR Annual Conference in DublinAt the ECSR Annual Conference, held at Trinity College Dublin from 15-17 June 2026, the winners of the ECSR Prize for the Best PhD Thesis of the Year were officially announced. The 1st prize was awarded to Gaia Ghirardi (European University Institute, Florence) for her thesis “Interaction of Family Socioeconomic Status and Genotype in the … Read more
- Prize to the Best Paper Published in the European Sociological Review in 2025 Announced at the ECSR Annual Conference in DublinAt the ECSR Annual Conference, held at Trinity College Dublin from 15-17 June 2026, the winner and runners-up of the ESR Best Article Award were officially announced. The ESR Best Article of 2025 Award was presented to Kathryn Christine Beck for her paper “The Later the Better? A Novel Approach to Estimating the Effect of … Read more
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