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Families, Relationships and Societies David Morgan Prize

Announcing the 2024 winners of the David Morgan Prize 

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 winners of the David Morgan Prize are Tom Witney, Jacqui Gabb, Catherine Aicken, Salvatore Di Martino and Mathijs Lucassen for their article Configuring the digital relationship landscape: a feminist new materialist analysis of a couple relationship app. This article is available to read with open access.     

Read the winning article

Pervious winners 

2023
Knowledge forms and gendered moralities in policies of infant care in Brazil
Claudia Fonseca

2022
Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context [Open access]
Jesper Andreasson and Marcus Herz

2021
A British South Asian Muslim relational negotiation of divorce: uncoupling beyond the couple
Kaveri Qureshi and Zubaida Metlo

About the prize

To mark the tenth anniversary of Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS), the journal launched an annual prize to recognize the outstanding contributions made to FRS.

The prize was created in memory of David Morgan, former president of the British Sociological Association (BSA), and past member of the FRS editorial team.

A panel involving Editorial Board members judges research articles published in a journal issue during previous year on the following criteria:

  • Originality: a novel contribution to the field of families and relationships
  • Significance: the work is likely to exert influence within its field of study
  • Demonstrates rigorous social science methods and theory: uses compelling evidence to argue its case


£100-worth of Policy Press/Bristol University Press books will be awarded to the winner and their paper will be promoted widely.