 | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event with Erik Aslaksen talking about Society as an information processing system, you can catch up with the recording here.
The next TASA Thursdays will be the Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher event 'Postgraduate Engagement and Impact Award Information Session' hosted by Laura Simpson Reeves on behalf of the Postgraduate Sub-Committee, with insights from the current Postgraduate Portfolio leader Dorinda ‘t Hart and previous award winners. 7 July, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST, via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89645847792?pwd=MkhMcVFsNERVWmZuMWo1ajdzRFJnZz09
Meeting ID: 896 4584 7792 & Passcode: 843279
Previous TASA Secretary and Postgraduate Portfolio Leader Ash Watson will be discussing/reflecting at our July 14th TASA Thursdays event on 5 Years of So Fi Zine. You can register for that event here.
Please email Sally in TASA Admin if you have expertise in housing and disasters; we'd love to have you join a panel for our August 11 TASA Thursdays event on the Northern Rivers Housing Crisis.
| | TASA Public Engagement Survey (PES) | You are invited to participate in TASA's research regarding the Public Role of Sociology, being managed by Roger Patulny, our Public Sociology Portfolio Leader. The survey is closing on June 30th. To find out more and to participate, click on the orange link below:
Take the Survey
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We encourage you to share the survey link among your networks. | | TASA Conference Bursaries
| If you have submitted an abstract for our TASA 2022 conference in November, you may be eligible for one of our conference bursaries. For details, please click on the relevant link/s below. The application deadline has been extended to Monday July 4th.
Note, if you reside in Melbourne you can still apply for a bursary. | Did you know that TASAweb has a section for members to publicise their teaching textbooks (see here). To help us update this page, if you have published a textbook in the last couple of years, we welcome and encourage you to email the details to Sally in TASA Admin.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | For tips from fellow members on getting published in The Conversation (TC), click here. For some members' articles published in TC between 2013 & 2019, click here. To find out what can happen after publishing in TC, click here.
| | Ann Game (2022) Living in-relation with horses: practice. Living in Relation, June 16. | 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.
| Cultures of Wellbeing Symposium
A Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Event
10am-3pm, Wednesday, 23 November
Deakin Downtown, Deakin University
Abstract submission deadline: August 31. Read on...
| Incoming / Returning Conveners
| This week, we are introducing you to the conveners of the Crime & Governance Thematic Group (TG).
The Crime & Governance TG brings together TASA members with research interests in how crime, deviance, governance and social control are understood and operate within society. The group is convened to facilitate an interdisciplinary and collegial forum designed to foster the collaboration of members from across different fields of sociology, criminology and social psychology. It places a strong focus on the engagement of researchers at all points of their careers, and emphasises the inclusion and participation of early career and postgraduate researchers, and members with broader interests in, but not limited to, youth crime and detention; Indigenous incarceration; prisoner health; welfare and policy; urban marginality; risk; and power.
This thematic group aims to support sociological research primarily through the presentation of papers at the annual TASA conference and through the organisation of thematic group workshops on current and emerging issues within the crime and governance space. The group encourages lively and constructive debate among members, and promotes a forum where members can network, establish valuable research partnerships and participate in ongoing peer mentorship and scholarship via informal reviews on draft papers. The thematic group strongly supports publicly engaged research aimed at increasing the public profile of this area of sociology.
The returning conveners are Natalie Maystorovich and Clarissa Carden, and the incoming convener is Simon Prideaux.
|  | | Dr Natalia Maystorovich Chulio holds a Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of NSW. She is currently undertaking a PhD with the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Her thesis reflects her broader research interests in humanitarian and human rights law; transitional justice; the archaeological recovery of mass graves. She has experience teaching in socio-legal studies, sociology and Indigenous studies. Since 2012 she has worked with the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (ARMH – Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory) in an attempt to draw attention to the difficulties experienced by survivors seeking to recuperate victims of Enforced Disappearance. She is currently working on an ARC-funded study, ‘Understanding Society: The Role of Sociology and Its Social Impact' with Associate Professor Fran Collyer. The study examines the history of Australian sociology and the use of sociological knowledge in public discourse, media, policy development and legislation. |  | | Dr Clarissa Carden is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work explores the intersection of morality and social change, with a particular focus on the lives of young people. Her broad body of research includes scholarship on the history and present of education in Queensland, grief in virtual worlds, and historical juvenile justice. Her postdoctoral research project examines the emergence of contemporary youth justice in Australia through a close examination of the case studies of Westbrook, in Queensland, and Mount Penang, in New South Wales. | | |
 | Dr Simon Prideaux is the Director of (In)Justice International a not-for-profit global collective. Until recently he was an Associate Professor of Social Welfare, Disability Studies and Crime in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds (England). He has written, co-authored and edited four books entitled Crimes of States and Powerful Elites (2021), State Crime and Immorality: The Corrupting Influence of the Powerful (2016), Understanding Disability Policy (2012), Not So New Labour: A Sociological Critique of New Labour’s Policy and Practice (2005). He has also published in the journals Social Policy & Administration, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, Political Quarterly, Disability & Society and the International Journal of Social Welfare. Talks and/or keynote speeches have been given in Canada (Toronto), the Czech Republic (Olumouc), Finland (Mikkeli), Japan (Osaka and Tokyo), Malta (Saint Julians), Portugal (Braga and Lisbon), Slovakia (Tatranska Lomnica), Taiwan (Chun Cheng, Kaohsiung and Taipei) and the UK (Bath and Lancaster).
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Deadlines for our TASA hosted ISA 2023 XX World Congress are now available here. For quick reference, the abstract submission deadline is September 30.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| 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.
Submission deadline: this coming Monday June 27. Read on... | New: Senior Associate, Research
Work with fellow member Shanthi Robertson
The Insight Centre is looking for an experienced researcher, with a background in social and/or market research and a keen interest in current social, economic and policy issues. This position will suit a confident communicator and strong writer with a social science or research and insights background, and 3-5 years’ experience in research focused roles.
Application deadline: July 15. Read on...
New: Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
Project: ‘Looking South (and slightly North-East) for school-based prevention ideas: an international comparative policy and practice analysis in Canada, Australia, Wales, and the United States'.
Application deadline: 5:00 pm EST on Monday, July 11th. Read on....
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
Head of School, School of Social Sciences and Professor
Monash University
| 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.
| | | New: Sociology PhD Scholarships
La Trobe University
There is currently an open call for students to apply for scholarships with any research project. Students are also welcome to submit proposals for scholarships related to the following areas:
- Historical Sociology and Social Change: In particular, see staff profile for Ass Prof Katie Wright; in addition, Katie has an ARC project-based scholarship: The Child Abuse Royal Commission: Policy Reform and Social Change
- Mental Health, Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Culture, and Well-Being: In particular, see staff profiles for Dr Sara James, Dr Anne Maree-Sawyer, Ass Prof Katie Wright and Ass Prof Raelene Wilding 4Migration, Mobilities and Multiculturalism: In particular, see staff profiles for Dr Martina Boese, Dr Xianbi Huang, Ass Prof Anthony Moran and Ass Prof Raelene Wilding
- Social inequality and Social Networks: In particular, see staff profile of Dr Xianbi Huang
- Sociology of Aging, and Sociology of Relationships: In particular, see staff profiles for Dr Sara James, Dr Anne Maree-Sawyer and Ass Prof Raelene Wilding
- Sociology of morality, ethics, values, and judgement: In particular, see the staff profile of Dr Matthew Wade
- Sociology of work and employment: In particular, see staff profiles for Dr Martina Boese, Dr Xianbi Huang, Dr Sara James, Dr Anne Maree-Sawyer and Ass Prof Anthony Moran
| | 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 | New: Just Futures: Exploring Pathways of Futurity and Justice
The Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies Australasia (AILASA)
Hybrid, 7th – 9th July
HDRs and ECRs can participate on a discounted ticket of $20
New: Talking Ageing with Attitude
28 October, Clunes
30 Years of Photovoice: Past, Present, and Future
Online, October 20-22
This virtual conference aims to bring photovoice practitioners together to share experience with this powerful and participatory visual method for mutual learning and positive change.
Fellow member Katherine Carroll is the event's track leader for Photovoice in Health
Revitalising Universities in (post-) COVID times. University of Tokyo (Tokyo), November 4 and 5, 2022
Hybrid, November 4-5
Convened by fellow member Naomi Berman
Bring together academics, educators, and experts from Australia, Japan and other regions to discuss the future of higher education as universities navigate pathways out of the pandemic.
Fellow member Raewyn Connell will be joining (virtually) as keynote speaker. Echoing Connell’s original call to rethink the ‘good university’, COVID has thrown into question taken-for-granted notions about the position of universities, forcing a reframing of understandings around their social purpose.
Submission deadline: July 8. Read on...
| New: Regulating Facial Recognition Technology in Adelaide…and Beyond
Free, in-person event
Adelaide, June 27th, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
| War and the Long-Lasting Intersectional Effects on Refugees, Minorities, Disabled People and the Global Environment
Free online postgraduate workshop
Presenters can approach the issues from whichever intersectional preference they choose.
Hosted by (In) Justice International and TASA
September 14th, 9:00pm to September 15th 12:50am AEST
Abstract submission deadline: August 15. Read on...
| Summer Institute in Computational Social Science - Festival
| 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. | 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
| Disabled People and the Intersectional Nature of Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion, Volume 11, Issue 4
Abstract submission deadline: November 30. Read on...
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