Congratulations to Louise Laverty, Katherine Checkland, and Sharon Spooner of the University of Manchester, whose paper “Unpromising futures: Early-career GPs’ narrative accounts of meaningful work during a professional workforce crisis” has been named joint winner of the 2025 Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence, awarded by the British Sociological Association (BSA) and Sage Publishing.
Published in Work, Employment and Society (Vol. 38, Issue 3), the article offers a powerful and timely exploration of the experiences of early-career GPs navigating the transition from training to practice amid a workforce crisis in NHS general practice.
This research was conducted as part of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) Project 354: “An investigation of factors which are associated with successful transitions from GP specialty training programmes to long-term careers in NHS general practice.”
The 2025 winners and all shortlisted papers are listed on the BSA website.