 | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
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
For the week after, we have booked previous TASA Secretary and Postgraduate Portfolio Leader Ash Watson to discuss / reflect on 5 Years of So Fi Zine, July 14th TASA Thursdays. You can register for that event here.
Note, if your area of interest / expertise is in health sociology, the deadline for expressions of interest to be the next Editor-in-Chief for Health Sociology Review (HSR) has been extended by 2 weeks to July 18. For details, scroll to down to the HSR section of the newsletter.
| | 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 TODAY Thursday June 30th. To find out more and to participate, click on the orange link below:
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We encourage you to share the survey link among your networks. | You may recall that last year we funded several events in November for TASA November and that some of those events were postponed due to COVID interruptions. One of the events, New lives, New Research Agendas: Sociology Amid and Beyond the Pandemic Symposium, was held recently. The event encompassed three panels and you can read about them here.
We are happy to report that the event was recorded and can be accessed via the links below:
- Panel 1: Youth, Education, Universities
- Panel 2: Working And Living In Covid Times
- Panel 3: Technology Transforming Care And Wellbeing
We thank all involved for the energy, time and persistence that went into ensuring this event went ahead. | | | | 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 this 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 | Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins. Edited by David Farrugia and Signe Ravn, Bristol University Press, 2022. | This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond.
Expert authors investigate different dimensions of spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and develop new understandings of the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education. From Australia to India, Myanmar to Sweden, and the UK to Central America, international examples from both the Global South and North help to illuminate wider issues of intergenerational change, social mobility and identity.
By exploring young lives beyond the city, this book establishes different ways of thinking from a position of spatial marginality. Read on... | | | Johanna Garnett 'Reimagining Space, Re-organizing Lives: Environmental activism in Myanmar', in Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins. Edited by David Farrugia and Signe Ravn, Bristol University Press, 2022.
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Barton, G., Brömdal, A., Burke, K., Fanshawe, M., Farwell, V., Larsen, E., & Pillay, Y. (2022). Publishing in the academy: An arts-based, metaphorical reflection towards self-care. The Australian Educational Researcher, 0(0), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00547-y [OPEN ACCESS]
Franks, N., Mullens, A. B., Aitken, S., & Brömdal, A. (2022). Fostering Gender-IQ: Barriers and Enablers to Gender-affirming Behavior Amongst an Australian General Practitioner Cohort. Journal of Homosexuality, 0(0), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2022.2092804
Humpage L, Bielefeld S, Marston G, Staines Z, Peterie M, Mendes P. Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand. Critical Social Policy. June 2022. doi:10.1177/02610183221106923
Halliwell, S., du Plessis, C., Hickey, A., Gildersleeve, J., Sanders, T., Clark, K., Hughto, J. M. W., Debattista, J., Phillips, T., Daken, K., & Brömdal, A. (2022). A critical discourse analysis of an Australian incarcerated trans woman’s letters of complaint and self-advocacy. Ethos, 0(0), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12343 [OPEN ACCESS]
du Plessis, C., Halliwell, S., Mullens, A., Sanders, T., Gildersleeve, J., Phillips, T., & Brömdal, A. (2022). A Trans Agent of Social Change in Incarceration: A Psychobiographical Study of Natasha Keating. Journal of Personality, 0(0), 1-43https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jopy.12745.
| 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.
| 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 next 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...
| This week, we are introducing you to the new conveners of the Rural Issues Thematic Group (TG).
The Rural Issues thematic group aims to bring together sociologists interested in the dialectical relationship that exists between urban and rural Australia and seeks to prioritise the unique social experiences of rural and regional Australians. Collectively, we aim to support empirical, theoretical and multidisciplinary research related to a broad range of rural and regional issues:
- policy and policy change;
- social impacts of climate change;
- social and cultural diversity;
- business, work, government and services;
- economic and social development;
- community engagement and civil society;
- culture, cultural diversity and cultural change;
- relationships between research and practice;
- interdisciplinary research and practice;
- agriculture;
- food security;
- social impact of water and water resourcing;
- rural and regional social issues; and
- commonalities of all Australians.
The new conveners are David Radford and Sarina Kilham.
|  | Dr David Radford, Senior Lecturer, UniSA Justice and Society, University of South Australia
David's research focuses on mobilities, identities and social change. David investigates migration, diversity and interculturality in rural/regional and urban Australia. His research emphasises the importance of the micro, everyday lived experiences of migration and interculturality while drawing on macro factors impacting these experiences. David's present research projects include investigating refugee-background settlement in rural Australia and exploring how the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities (ICC) model and interculturalism is unfolding in different regions of the world (Australia/Canada/Spain). David has previously researched the role of local government leadership in managing/promoting diversity, the complex ways that Hazara Afghan humanitarian-background migrants negotiate their multiple identities as 'Aussie Afghans', and ethnic, religious and national identity reconstruction in post-Soviet Central Asia. |  | Dr Sarina Kilham is a rural sociologist specialising in transdisciplinary research, focusing on the intersection of sustainable rural livelihoods, autonomy of peasants and the ways in which people adapt, integrate or resist government led development programs.
Dr Kilham’s academic and industry research experience has spanned sustainable access to energy and water, sustainable agricultural production, biofuels for rural development, NGO collaboration and partnerships and disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction. Dr Kilham has primarily conducted research in Timor-Leste, Indonesia and Brazil.
Prior to returning to academia, Dr Kilham worked extensively with the United Nations, Non-Government Organisations and public institutions on international development programs for more than a decade, primarily in Timor-Leste. Dr Kilham worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Timor-Leste as a policy and programs Advisor, and collaborative with National University of Timor Lorosa’e Faculty of Agriculture on her PhD Research. | | |
Deadlines for our TASA hosted ISA 2023 XX World Congress are now available here. For quick reference, the abstract submission portal opens tomorrow July 1 and will close on 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: EXTENDED TO Monday July 18. Read on... | 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...
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.
| | | 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
- Migration, 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: The State We Were In: My Life, Achievements and Disappointments
Online Talk with Professor Emeritus Colin Barnes
Wednesday, 10 August, 5am - 7am AEST (Tuesday August 9, 20:00 – 22:00 BST)
| 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
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...
| 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. | New: Adult Migrants’ Language Learning, Labour Market, and Social Inclusion
Special Issue, Social Inclusion
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...
| 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. | Gift memberships, for any membership category, can now be accessed at anytime via your membership profile screen. If you would like to gift a membership, to someone new or to a current member, please follow the steps below:
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STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. | | Submitting Newsletter Items | | We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced & with a link, where possible) for the next newsletter, to TASA Admin. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning. | | Updating your Member Profile | Personal pronoun preferences can now be added to your profile. There are 9 combination options to choose from. Please let Sally in TASA Admin know if your preference/s is not on the list and we will have them added.
| | TASA Documents and Policies | | Accessing Online Materials & Resources | | TASA members have access to over 90 peer-reviewed Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals encompassing over 63,000 articles. The image on the left shows you where to access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, when logged in to TASAweb. If needed, here is a short instructive video on how to access the journals. | | | | Contact TASA Admin: admin@tasa.org.au | |