 | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Earlier this week, we emailed you about the pending TASA Executive Election. Nominations for all portfolios will open on July 4th. Nominations will be called for the following portfolios:
- President
- Vice-president
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Indigenous
- Equity & Inclusion
- Public Sociology
- Thematic Groups
- Postgraduate
The position descriptions for each of the above Executive portfolios can be viewed here.
We will also be calling for expressions of interest for our Digital Publications Editor(s) portfolio. The position description can be viewed here.
If you missed last nights terrific event with long term TASA member Professor Fran Collyer and UK researcher Graham Crow (Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Methodology) presenting their research on retired academics, you can catch up with the recording here.
Similarly, if you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event with fellow member Tom Barnes hosting The Future of Work: Challenges of Regulation for the Albanese Labor Government with speakers Elizabeth Hill, fellow member Elizabeth Humphrys, and Alison Pennington, you can catch up with the recording here.
| TASA bestows several annual awards and four of them are currently open for nominations. Namely:
- Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology Award;
- Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize;
- Outstanding Service to TASA Award; and
- Sociology in Action Award.
Nominations for all 4 awards close on June 15th.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Special Issue: Journal of Global Indigeneity, Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2022
Last year, our Critical Indigenous Studies Thematic Group hosted the ‘Critical Indigenous Studies Symposium’ made possible with the support of TASA thematic group funding, The Department of Indigenous Studies and The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures. The symposium showcased the breadth and diversity of Indigenous sociologists’ scholarship, the scholarship of their allies, and future contributions that will be made by Indigenous sociologists. The Special Issue includes papers presented at the symposium. They can be accessed here.
| Bridges, D., Wulff, E., & Krivokapic-Skoko, B. & Bamberry, L. (2022) Girls in trades: Tokenism and sexual harassment inside the VET classroom, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, DOI: 10.1080/13636820.2022.2084768
Alan Morris, Andrew Clarke, Catherine Robinson, Jan Idle & Cameron Parsell (2022) Applying for Social Housing in Australia – The Centrality of Cultural, Social and Emotional Capital, Housing, Theory and Society, DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2022.2085169
Bamberry, L., Bridges, D., Wulff, E., & Krivokapic-Skoko, B. (2022). Inequality regimes in male-dominated trades: What role do apprenticeship intermediaries (GTOs) play? The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 10353046221096270
Brömdal, A., Halliwell, S., Sanders, T., Clark, K. A., Gildersleeve, J., Mullens, A. B., Phillips, T. M., Debattista, J., du Plessis, C., Daken, K., & Hughto, J. M. W. (2022). Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States. Feminism & Psychology, 0(0), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221102224
Manouchehri, B., Burns, E. A., Davoudi, S., & Sharifi, A. (2022). Exploring the views of Iranian planning professionals on children’s active involvement in urban planning. Environment and Urbanization, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221092688
Sullivan, C. T., Coe, G., Spurway, K., Briskman, L., Trewellyn, W., Leha, J., & Soldatic, K. (2022). Mobility Tactics: Young LGBTIQ+ Indigenous Australians’ Belonging and Connectedness. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 6(1).
Corrected version: Hendry NA. ‘Hey lovely! Don’t miss this opportunity!’ Digital temporalities of wellness culture, email marketing, and the promise of abundance. Journal of Sociology. May 2022. doi:10.1177/14407833221101397
| TASA Thursdays
For a full list of our TASA Thursdays events for 2022, as well as the registration links, please visit TASAweb here.
| TASA Tea Time
Thanks to Heidi Hetz, our equity & inclusion portfolio leader, the next TASA Tea Time session will be held on Thursday July 7, 4:00pm (AEST). You can register for the session here.
| Migration, Racism and COVID-19: Challenges and Insights Workshop
Co-hosted by the Migration & Mobilities Research Network and TASA Migration, Ethnicities & Multiculturalism Thematic Group
Friday, 17 June 2022, 10am – 5pm AEST
The University of Melbourne and Zoom (Hybrid Event)
This is a free event, but online registration is required.
| | TASA Public Engagement Survey (PES) | Last week, we emailed an invitation to participate in TASA's research regarding the Public Role of Sociology, being managed by Roger Patulny, our Public Sociology Portfolio Leader. To find out more and to participate, click on the orange link below:
Take the Survey
Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
https://uow.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_80Ti3JYmt7Y2rQi
We encourage you to share the survey link among your networks. |
Deadlines for our TASA hosted ISA 2023 XX World Congress are now available here. For quick reference, the abstract submission deadline is September 30.
| This week, we are introducing you to the conveners of the Urban Sociology Thematic Group
(TG).
The Urban Sociology Thematic Group provides an opportunity for debate, sharing and collaboration for scholars interested in issues related to cities including urban culture and community, governance, housing, transport and inequality in Australia and internationally.
The group holds sessions at annual conferences, other seminars and workshops as opportunities arise and provides the means to communicate by social media.
The incoming conveners are Kazi Fattah and Rebecca Williamson.
|  | | Kazi Fattah is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland (UQ) School of Social Science. He completed his PhD in 2021 from the University of Queensland. His disciplinary background is in sociology, development studies and qualitative research. Before joining the University of Queensland, he worked as a Research Fellow at Melbourne Centre for Cities, the University of Melbourne and prior to that at BRAC in Bangladesh as a community development practitioner. His research interests include informal urbanism, urban governance and social policy, climate adaptation, and community-driven development in Southern cities. His current research at the UQ looks at informal climate urbanism in the Asia and the Pacific. He is also working as a Visiting Fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Cities as part of a multi-country research project that examines policy responses to the Covid19 pandemic in select South and Southeast Asian megacities. |  | | Rebecca Williamson has worked as a research officer, sessional lecturer and tutor in the School of Sociology and the Research School at Population Health at ANU, and is currently employed as a research associate at UNSW. She has an MA in social anthropology (Victoria University, Wellington) and a PhD in sociology from the University of Sydney (2016), where her doctoral research focused on migration, urban diversity, public spaces and multicultural belonging. Her published work has focused on migration and social transformation, the governance of public spaces, urban diversity, and gender and the geographies of care. She has a research interest in public health and community wellbeing in times of environmental and other crises, with a particular focus on maternal health and housing. In recent years she has developed applied research skills in the areas of gender equity, urban living labs and public space evaluation. | | |
Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Journal of Sociology - call for guest editors for the 2024 special issue
Each year the editors invite expressions of interest from the international community of sociological scholars to guest edit a special issue of the journal. Special issues may address any sociological theme that is likely to be of interest to the journal’s international readership.
The deadline for expressions of interest for the 2024 special issue is June 20th, 2022. For full details, read on...
| Health Sociology Review Call for New Editorial Team
Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW (HSR) for the four-year term 2023–2026. Transition arrangements will begin later in 2022, although the content for the first issue of 2023 will be finalised by the out-going editors.
| Teaching Opportunity, Semester 2, 2022
Casual, June/ July – November 2022
University of Melbourne
Seeking someone who is sociologically trained, to join our dynamic teaching team in Semester 2, 2022. Particularly interested if you have a practice background in the education, public health, youth or community services sectors. You would be teaching professionals who already work in same (eg. doctors, teachers, nurses, police) the fundamental concepts for an applied socio-environmental approach to understanding and working more effectively with young people. In focus are fundamental ideas like social change, inequality, historical, global and cultural perspectives, class, gender, race, ability, geographies, inter-sectionality … etc. SEC (see below) is a core subject in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Master in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing.
The subject is ready to go but needs a great communicator with a heart for effective practice.
For more details, read on...
Contact Dr Ani Wierenga: wierenga@unimelb.edu.au
Level A Research Officer or Level B Research Fellow
La Trobe University
Application deadline: June 15. Read on...
Head of School, School of Social Sciences and Professor
Monash University
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Environmental Policy
The Fenner School of Environment and Society are seeking an outstanding mid-career academic to contribute to the School’s research, education and impact in the field of environment policy. The successful candidate will contribute to curriculum renewal and lead courses relevant to environment policy. The position is a continuing Level C/D. They are looking for a candidate with an excellent capacity for collaborative research and outreach, a passion for teaching, and an inter-disciplinary approach to building partnerships for research and impact on environment policy. This role is also specifically available for women. Women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and LGBTQ+ women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: June 19. 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.
| | | | 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. | | | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | Summer Institute in Computational Social Science - Festival
| New: Fellow member Erik Aslaksen has written a book called Evolution and Society. Erik is looking for members to review the book.
The book presents a view of society as an information-processing system, with individuals as the networked processors. In its ideal form, from which our current society is very far removed, the access and contribution to the information is freely available to every individual; a main aim of the book is to provide a measure of whether we are currently moving toward or away from this ideal. The book has 13 chapters and about 300 pages, and the review would be needed by early October. | Social Sciences Week 2022 | | The team of Social Sciences Week (SSW) organisers have developed a digital assets webpage where you can easily download SSW images for your email signature, Twitter & Facebook etc. | Online Child Sexual Exploitation (OCSE) Research Project
This study involves collecting data from not only offenders but also individuals who haven’t been charged with any type of sexual offending against children, and the benefits are hoped to be at least twofold. It is hoped that the results will contribute to enhancing the early detection of online child sexual offenders through revealing potential risk factors associated with this type of offending. And due to current risk assessment and therapeutic interventions being geared more toward contact offenders (and thus sometimes not overly effective) the research will hopefully contribute to enhancing risk assessment practices and therapeutic frameworks designed to target a reduction of offending and recidivism in this area.
| Method Triangulation
Taiwan, 18-19 August
| Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Inclusion: Perspectives From Network Peripheries and Non-Adopters
Social Inclusion
Deadline for Articles: 31 January 2023
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe
Volume 15 (Forthcoming 2024)
Edited by Olga Breskaya, University of Padova, and Siniša Zrinščak, University of Zagreb
| Indigenous Emancipation: The Fight Against Marginalisation, Criminalisation, and Oppression
Edited by Grace O’Brien, Pey-Chun Pan, and Simon Prideaux as part of the (In)Justice International Collective
The politics of age in sex and sexuality education for children and young people
Sex Education journal
Abstract submission deadline: TOMORROW 10th June. Read on...
Disabled People and the Intersectional Nature of Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion, Volume 11, Issue 4
Abstract submission deadline: November 15 - 30. Read on...
Indigenous Emancipation: The Fight Against Marginalisation, Criminalisation, and Oppression
Special Issue for Social Inclusion (all open access)
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