| Dear ~~first_name~~,
In case you missed our email earlier this week, we are very happy to report, during our bumper Social Sciences Week, that we have a newly elected Indigenous Portfolio Leader - Joann Schmider. Joann brings to the role a wealth of experience. You can read about Joann here.
On a different note, if you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event hosted by Richa George, and supported by Dorinda 't Hart, with members Simon Copland, Clare Southerton and Brady Robards sharing their extensive knowledge about Using digital methods meaningfully in sociological enquiry, you can catch up via the recording here.
| Registration: Please note that early bird registration ends on September 29th. To be included in our TASA 2022 program, you will need to be registered by September 29th. You can register here.
Accommodation: As you have hopefully read and heard, TASA 2022 is a part of the Congress of HASS, which is being hosted by The Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). CHASS have secured some hotel blocks for the event and you can book those via their accommodation portal here.
Childcare: TASA conferences are child friendly, and child/ren are welcome to attend for free
- if your would like your child/ren or guardian/s to have name badges or a lunch pack (for a day or full conference), please contact TASA Admin (these will be provided free by TASA)
- parent/family room and a lactation room will be available
For childcare centre information and other child minding services close to the University of Melbourne, please see our spreadsheet on TASA 2022 Childcare Options.
| Writing and Pitching Masterclass with The Conversation | TASA’s Masterclass with The Conversation seeks to support the professional development of TASA members with regard to disseminating research findings to the public via engagement with The Conversation. The grant is targeted at TASA members who have limited or no access to funding for professional development activities and who have limited or no experience writing for The Conversation.
| TASA Funded ISA 2023 Bursaries
for Members
| Several TASA Bursaries are available to support TASA members' attendance at the ISA 2023 World Congress. They are:
The application deadline for all bursaries is January 16th, 2023.
| TASA Funded ISA 2023 Bursaries
for HDRs and ECRs from Category C & B Countries | | TASA’s 2023 ISA Bursary seeks to support the attendance of higher degree research students (HDR) and early career researchers (ECR) from Category B and Category C countries in the Asia-Pacific Region (see below) at the 2023 International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, June 25 - July 1, 2023. | | Category B countries: China; Fiji; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Is.; Peru; Russian Fed.; Thailand; Tonga; Tuvalu.
Category C countries: Bangladesh; Cambodia; India; Indonesia; Kiribati; Korea, Dem. Rep; Lao PDR; Micronesia; Mongolia; Nepal; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Samoa; Solomon Is.; Sri Lanka; Timor-Leste; Vanuatu; Vietnam.
We welcome and encourage you to share this opportunity amongst your relevant networks. The full details, and application form, are on TASAweb here. | | | We strongly encourage you to submit an abstract for ISA 2023. It will likely be decades before the World Congress of Sociology will be this close to home again! It's a perfect, and rare, opportunity to share your research among an international audience and there is a plethora of sessions (1000+) to choose from. See below for interviews conducted by fellow member Brady Robards with Dan Woodman, ISA 2023 Chair ( &co-convener) and Jo Lindsay, co-convener.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Garth Steel (2022) Self-Made Men: Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-Family Males. Palgrave Macmillan. |  | | This book explores how boys from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds disengage from their education, and are resultantly severely underrepresented in post-compulsory education. For those who attend university, many will be first-in-their-family. As first-in-family students, they may encounter significant barriers which may limit their participation in university life and their acquisition of social and cultural capital. Drawing on a longitudinal study of young Australian men pursuing higher education, the book provides the first detailed account of socially mobile working-class masculinities. Investigating the experiences of these young men, this book analyses their acclimatisation to new learning environments as well as their changing subjectivities. The monograph draws on various sociological theories to analyse empirical data and make practical recommendations which will drive innovation in widening participation initiatives internationally. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in widening participation, transitions, social mobility and Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities. Read on... | | | |
Burns, E. A., Manouchehri, B., & Davoudi, S. (2022). A narrative photographic approach: Opening day ceremonies for Iran’s Nature Schools. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-022-00111-3 (open access)
Molnar, Lena Ida. 2022. "“I Didn’t Have the Language”: Young People Learning to Challenge Gender-Based Violence through Consumption of Social Media" Youth 2, no. 3: 318-338. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth2030024 (open access) | 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.
| Social Sciences Week - presentations
| TASA Thursdays
For a full list of our TASA Thursdays events for 2022, as well as the registration links, please visit TASAweb here.
| New: TASA Tea Time
Thanks to Heidi Hetz, our equity & inclusion portfolio leader, the next TASA Tea Time session will be held on Wednesday October 5th 12:30pm - 1:30pm (Perth), 2:00pm - 3:00pm (SA/NT), 2:30pm - 3:30pm (Brisbane, Cairns) and 3:30pm - 4:30pm (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Tasmania). To register for the event, click here.
| Working on the Margins: Lived Experiences, Career Trajectories and Prospect
A Social Sciences Week event by Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne
Online, TODAY Thursday 8 September, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm AEST
Moderator: Dan Woodman
Speakers: Irma Mooi-Reci, Signe Ravn, & Megan Sharp
| Digitised and Datafied Animals: Emerging Technologies and Human-Animal Entanglements
Online, Wednesday 5th October, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm AEDT
Speakers include: Deborah Lupton and Megan Rose
| 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...
| Youth and money matters: Precarity, wellbeing and digital media
A Sociology of Youth Thematic Group symposium
Keynote - Professor Lisa Adkins, FASS, University of Sydney
Panellists: A/Prof Steven Threadgold, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Benjamin Hanckel and Dr Natalie Hendry
Monday 28 November 9am-4pm
| Conceptualising Youth Mobilities Amidst Social Challenges Workshop
28th November
Hybrid, Deakin Business Centre
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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.
| New: Call for papers for a special joint session RC31 & RC34 on youth mobilities
ISA Session: Conceptualising Transnational Youth Mobilities and Transitions amidst Social
Challenges
International Sociological Association World Congress, Melbourne June 25 - July 1, 2023
Youth people aged between 18 - 30 represent the most mobile cohort across the globe. RC
31 (Migration) and RC 34 (Youth) are hosting a special joint session which invites papers that
examine transnational youth mobilities and transitions amidst the social challenges of our
contemporary world. Drawing on this year’s ISA Congress theme, we examine a range of
issues including if and how the global rise of authoritarianism, populism, xenophobia and
racism impacts young people’s mobility decisions and trajectories. What are the similarities
and differences in the experiences of young people on the move from the global north and
the global south? How has the recent pandemic impacted their mobility aspirations and
pathways? How does mobility shape new possibilities for adulthood in a changing world? In
exploring these and other questions, we welcome papers that feature the methodological
and conceptual developments needed to better understand this generation making a life on
the move.
Note: This is a special invited session and does not appear on the ISA Congress sessions page. If you would like to submit an abstract, please email your abstract directly to the session organisers by 28th September 2022. Abstracts are to be no more than 300 words. Please also include title, up to 4 keywords, author/s & institution/s, and email contact details. To submit an abstract or for further details, please contact Professor Loretta Baldassar: l.baldassar@ecu.edu.au Professor Anita Harris: anita.harris@deakin.edu.au
| New: Call for abstracts for XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne June 25-July 1 2023.
RC05
‘Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in Australia: Knowledge for Action Beyond Epistemological Divisions’
Australia is a society structured by race/ism. Founded on the fiction of terra nullius, or no-one’s land, the First Nations of the land were dispossessed and denied personhood by settler colonists. Once Australia became a nation, it further entrenched racial hierarchy by limiting migration to Anglo-Celtic people through the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, colloquially known as the White Australia Policy. Racial hierarchies continue to structure Australian society yet race and racism are largely invisible in public discourse, and anti-racism is sparse. Further, a key debate in Australian sociology is between those who argue that it is important to engage with the concept of ‘race’ as the basis of social hierarchy, and those who contend that racism is the problem and should be the central focus. Is it possible to bring these two disparate approaches together? How does this debate intersect with growing calls to decolonise Australian institutions and ways of living? This session engages with these questions by asking: what approaches are likely to be most productive, if our goal is tackling racism and dismantling racial hierarchies in Australia? How/Can anti-racism build on analyses of/scholarship on race and racism? We welcome theoretical contributions, papers drawing on empirical research and critical policy analyses.
Submit an abstract here by September 30. | RC44 Research Committee on Labour Movements is encouraging academics and practitioners, including and especially early-career researchers, to submit abstracts for RC44 sessions at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, 2023. RC44 is holding sessions on multiple topics. If you want to give a paper that does not fit into one of these sessions, you can apply to join one of our two roundtables, each of which accommodates up to 25 papers. Please be aware that due to the nature of the roundtable sessions, only in-person contributions can be considered.
| Where Next for Sociological Alcohol Research?
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)
Call for submissions
Sociological research into alcohol use has burgeoned over the past few decades. During this period, young people in many high income countries have, on average, begun drinking less than previous generations. This encourages us to look to new populations at risk from heavy drinking. From an earlier focus on carnivalesque drinking by young people in the night time economy, we are seeing an emerging interest in more mundane drinking practices such as home alcohol consumption and drinking in middle age.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| New: Call for proposals for Special Issue by Guest Editors Issue 1, 2024
The incoming editors of HSR encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues exploring new ideas and the cutting edge of their field of expertise. Particularly welcome are proposals for special issues with a focus on novel empirical domains, theoretical frameworks and/or methodologies in the sociology of health and illness (for example, the intersection of health sociology and climate change).
Expression of interest deadline: October 15. Read on...
Yuwinbir – this way! Going beyond meeting points between Indigenous knowledges and health sociology
Health Sociology Review special issue Volume 31, Issue 2 (2022)
Guest edited by Megan Williams and Demelza Marlin.
All articles are on OPEN ACCESS for 90 days here.
| Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow
Australian National University
Research Fellow - Influencer Ethnography Research Lab
Curtin University
The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies
The Committee on Australian Studies at Harvard University seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Professor of Sociology
Uppsala University, Sweden
Application deadline: September 30. 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. | | | New: Including the voices of children and young people in support services
Australian National University / Relationships Australia
This supplementary ‘top up’ scholarship is a terrific opportunity for a PhD candidate who wants to conduct research that will inform improvements in community services for Australian children, young people, and their families and/or carers.
Application deadline: 10 pm Monday 31st October. Read on...
Multicultural Education Aides Supporting Students from Refugee Backgrounds
This PhD scholarship is offered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute in partnership with Foundation House University of Melbourne
Application Deadline: Monday 3 October. Read on...
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | Zine #12
So Fi Zine is a sociological fiction zine for arts-based research, creative sociology, and art inspired by social science. The zine publishes short fiction, poetry, and visual art in various forms.
| ARDC/CADRE Sharing Sensitive Data Training
| Are you a social science researcher interested in accessing or sharing sensitive qualitative datasets and helping shape research ethics training and access to research data?
SOCEY (Studies of Childhood, Education & Youth) at University of Melbourne, together with CADRE (Coordinated Access for Data, Research and Environments), is recruiting a small number of volunteers for a workshop on a framework and platform under development to facilitate access to sensitive research data, part of a multi-institutional national infrastructure project.
You will learn about the project, the 'Five Safes' framework and how it provides a schema for researchers to interact with sensitive datasets through CADRE.
In-person and hybrid event with limited numbers: 13 September, ANU, Canberra + 28 September, University of Melbourne, Parkville.
For further details and booking information, read on... | Call for Papers - Conferences | New: Migration, Refugees and Statelessness Interdisciplinary Conference 2022
On Friday 18 November 2022 the Melbourne Social Equity Institute will host a free one-day conference exploring migration, refugee studies and statelessness.
Paper submission deadline: Monday 19 September. Read on...
| Call for Papers - Journals | Resisting a “Smartness” That Is All Over the Place: Technology as a Marker of In/Ex/Seclusion
Social Inclusion
Abstract submission deadline: September 15. Read on...
Media International Australia feature section on the topic of "Telecommunications Revolution? Enduring problems and possible futures".
Scholars whose research focuses on changes happening across the telecommunications landscape (particularly in the Asia-Pacific region) are encouraged to submit a proposal for the section.
Submission deadline: 3 October.
More information is available here.
Visioni LatinoAmericane
Latin America between socio-environmental, health and conflict emergencies. Risks, strategic and geopolitical choices,
socio-economic repercussions, shortage of raw materials and food. Reality and perspectives
Adult Migrants’ Language Learning, Labour Market, and Social Inclusion
Special Issue, Social Inclusion
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...
| Childhood, Youth and Activism: Global Perspectives on Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates
Chapter proposals for the forthcoming book in the Sociology Studies of Children and Youth series.
Guest edited by Katie Wright and Julie McLeod.
Long abstracts due 10 September 2022 with chapters due 10 January 2023.
The full CFP can be found here. Details on the book series can be found here.
| Round Table Consultation Event - Understanding domestic violence and religion: Exploring how faith-based organisations can be part of the solution
This event is a national gathering to share information about initiatives and research demonstrating how churches and faith communities in Australia are working to prevent and respond to domestic and family violence.
Online or in-person (Melbourne), Friday 28 October,
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