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If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event, facilitated by TASA Secretary Kay Cook, with fellow members Sharyn Roach Anleu and George Sarantoulias speaking on "Complex data and simple instructions: Social regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic, you can catch up with the recording here.
Importantly, submissions for TASA2024 close on Monday June 3rd. For details, visit our conference website here.
| Our next TASA Book Club session, hosted by fellow member Aisling Bailey (Equity & Inclusion portfolio leader), shall be taking place online on Thursday 27th June at 7pm (AEST)
We invite you to join us as we explore the book: Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr
Event Details
Date: Thursday 27th June 2024
Time: 7pm AEST
Format: Zoom meeting - please note login details will be provided to you upon registration to this event
Cost: Free
Click here to register | | Join us on Thursday 20th June 2024, for next month's TASA Thursday session presented by guest speaker, fellow member Cathy Martin.
This session is titled,"Metaphors of Migration: A critical discourse analysis of the intersections between immigration, race, and the nation in Australian press reports."
| | | | Call for Focus Group Participants
| As announced during TASA’s annual conferences in 2022 and 2023, The Australian Sociological Association is currently undertaking a research study to assess the state of sociology in Australia. This includes investigations into teaching, funding, university enrolments, employment outcomes, and research outputs with respect to Australian sociology.
We are currently seeking recent PhD graduates in sociology who would like the opportunity to discuss their experiences navigating the discipline in Australia as part of a focus group for this project.
Volunteers need to have graduated with their PhD from an Australian university within the last five years.
If you are interested in participating in a focus group, please email Dr Rhys Gower at r.gower@westernsydney.edu.au to discuss further details.
| For TASA2024, Penny Toth, TASA's Event Manager, has secured a 15% discount off accommodation at two Nesuto Hotels; Nesuto Curtin and Nesuto Mounts Bay. Nesuto Curtin Hotel is conveniently located on Curtin University campus. For booking details, please visit our TASA2024 Accommodation webpage.
| Burns, E. A. (2024). Culture, denial, recycling, tree-hugging: Many registers learning the seriousness of climate change. In T. Bowell, N. Pepperell, A. Richardson, & M.-T. Corino (Eds.), Revitalising higher education: Insights from Te Puna Aurei Learnfest 2022 (pp. 95-105). Cardiff University Press. https://cardiffuniversitypress.org/site/books/e/10.18573/conf2/ [OPEN ACCESS]
| Jan Hayes, Sarah Maslen, and Paul Schulman (2024) ‘A case of collective lying: How deceit becomes entrenched in safety behaviour,’ Safety Science, 176, 106554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106554 [OPEN ACCESS]
Lata, L. N., Reddel, T., Head, B. W. and Craven, L. (2024). Advancing collaborative social outcomes through place-based solutions—aligning policy and funding systems, Policy and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae018 [OPEN ACCESS]
| Reimagining Menopause
Limited space is available, so please register ASAP if you would like to join in person
Friday, May 31 2024, 12:30-4:30pm AEST
UNSW Paddington, Cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road Paddington, NSW 2052
| | The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) Families and Relationships Thematic Convenors, Giselle Newton; Cheng Yen Loo and Cal Volks in association with the Centre for Digital Futures at the University of Queensland are hosting a Symposium exploring British Sociologist Jennifer Mason's theory of Affinities in research work.
Hybrid event
The day will include keynote provocations by fellow TASA members Rebecca Olson and Ashley Barnwell, as well as rapid papers from participants and affinities activities.
Some travel bursaries of up to $400 per person are available for Early Career Researchers
Expression of interest deadline: June 30. Read on...
| | | MusicLIVES Symposium, Brisbane, 26 June
The Sociology of Music thematic group invites TASA members to the MusicLIVES Symposium, at The Tivoli theatre in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, on Wednesday 26th June, 9am-5pm. MusicLIVES will showcase the work of SoM members and bring together academic, music industry and policy stakeholders, with focus sessions on ‘Sociology of music today’ and ‘Crisis and reinvention for live music in Australia’.
MusicLIVES is presented by the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, with support from TASA thematic group event funding. Further details and registration on the SoM webpage (expand Members’ News).
| | | The nomination deadline for the below 2024 TASA Awards is July 17th:
Note, applications for TASA2024 bursaries will open on Monday July 22nd and close on Monday August 19th.
| Research Analyst - Evaluation & Statistics Clerk Grade 7/8
Department of Communities and Justice
Haymarket, Sydney NSW
Application deadline: May 29th. Read on...
| The Jobs Board enables you to view current employment opportunities. As a member, you can post opportunities to the Jobs Board directly from within your membership profile screen.
| | | PhD scholarship - Place, Identity, and Localism in Populist Politics
Australian Catholic University
Working with fellow member Rachel Busbridge
Applications close: 11:59pm (AEST), Friday 28 June. Read on...
| | The Scholarships Board enables you to view available scholarships that our members have posted. Like the Jobs Board, as a member, you can post scholarship opportunities directly from within your membership profile screen. | | | | In case you are not aware, you can add job and scholarship opportunities to our publicly searchable Jobs & Scholarships Board via your TASA membership profile, see image below: | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Emotions of the Future
Friday 22 November
Macquarie University, Sydney
| Accords, now and then
Online, TOMORROW Friday May 24th
Speakers include fellow member Elizabeth Humphrys, Frank Bongiorno (CHASS President) & Alison Barnes (National President of the NTEU)
| Applied Worldwide Student Essay Competition: Why is Sociology Important?
Submission deadline: June 1st. Read on...
| So Fi Zine #15
Sociological fiction, poetry and visual art
| Conservative Public History
With speaker fellow member Neville Buch presenting on Buckley in Australia: Considering Local Social Discourses among the Australian States (1938-1987)
June 20, 10am - 6pm
| Call for Submissions - Journals
| Slavery and Freedom in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Lens
Sociology, Special Issue
New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis
Social Movement Studies
This special issue would like to go beyond discussions of “old” and “new” movements, popular during the 1990s, and instead emphasise the usefulness of using social movement and collective action theories for analysing the development, strategies, and consequences of labour movements — in short, to bring the labour movement back to social movements studies.
Abstract proposal deadline: June 1, 2024. Read on...
Special issue focussed on Culturally Responsive Qualitative Health Research
Qualitative Health Research
Anticipated publication of Special Issue: March 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 1. Read on....
| Interrogating Capitalism
Vegan Sociology Conference
Online, October 5 & 6, 2024
Submission deadline: June 1. Read on...
Global Conference on Migration and Health Equity
16-18 October, Rydges World Square, Sydney
Submission deadline: June 10. Read on...
Social Science Methodology Conference
Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
November 27-29, 2024, in-person at the University of Sydney
Abstract submission deadline: September 20
Epidemics and transmissible disease. Scourges throughout History.
The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies (TMA for HSES) and the Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development (TWC for SRD)
December 3, 4, 5 / 2024 (Beja - Tunisia).
| WA Migration and Mobilities Update conference
Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley campus, Perth WA.
Wednesday 25 September
Full program and registration details to follow.
Social Sciences Week 2024
9-15 September 2024
SSW2024 promises to be even more fun, insightful and intelligent than ever before. So mark your calendars, spread the word and get ready for a week of activities.
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