ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the activities of the Assessment Strategies and Standards in Sociology project. In doing so it seeks to achieve two aims. The chapter identifies a number of key themes raised in the course of the seven contributions. It offers some speculative remarks about future trends. It has become apparent to the authors that sociological researchers have neglected some crucial areas for investigation. Despite a long-standing sociological interest in labour markets and their operation, relatively little is known about the academic labour market for sociologists. The rapid expansion of the discipline, its diffusion throughout other programmes and its contribution to new multi-disciplinary areas of interest have all combined to make the paths into sociology teaching more variegated and career trajectories afterwards more complex. By contrast the authors' activities offered a space for collective reflection and sharing of insights and practice within the context of a single discipline.
