| Dear ~~first_name~~,
As mentioned last week, there are two very important deadlines coming up:
- TASA 2022 early bird registrations close next Thursday September 29th. If your submission was accepted then you need to register by September 29th to be included in the program. For registration details, read on...
- ISA World Congress of Sociology submission deadline is next Friday September 30th. We strongly encourage you to submit as 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 for you to share your research among an international audience and there is a plethora of sessions (1000+) to choose from. Read on... Note, there are 5 different TASA bursaries available to help support members to attend ISA 2023 (for details, see further down the newsletter).
| | Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program
| New: At the start of 2021, TASA introduced a new initiative, 'The Australian Sociological Association’s Workshop Program', which was subsequently renamed the Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program. While we appreciate the pandemic may continue to thwart scheduled events, we will continue to support and promote sociology where we can. Applications are currently open for 2 x $5,000 funded workshops to be held in 2023.
| | Social Sciences Week - recordings
| New: In case you haven't heard, events that were recorded during Social Sciences Week are now accessible from the one page here.
| | Diversity Council of Australia
| New: Did you know that if your workplace is a member of the Diversity Council of Australia that you can access the resources and events available in their members' portal. You can find out if your workplace is a member here. If your workplace is a member, you can create an account with your work email address and then access the member benefits.
| 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. | | | ISA Research Committees
Call for Submissions | 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.
| 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
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.
| 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 | | Members' Engaging Sociology |
Grace McQuilten, Amy Spiers, Kim Humphery & Peter Kelly Art-based Social Enterprise, Young Creatives and the Forces of Marginalisation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
| | This book analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by art-based social enterprises (ASEs) engaging young creatives in education and training and supporting their pathways to the creative industries. In doing so, it addresses the complex intersecting issues of marginality and entrepreneurship, particularly in relation to young creatives from socially, economically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with twelve key organisations, and three in-depth case studies in Australia, the book offers a detailed analysis of using enterprise to engage with the structural challenges of marginality. Read on... | | | Vieten, U. and Poynting, S. (2022) The Normalisation of the Global Far Right – Pandemic Disruption? Bingley: Emerald Press. 140 pp. [ISBN 978-1-83909-957-1; online 978-1-83909-956-4]
| Front matter available here. A link to the forthcoming book is available here. | | |
Drysdale K, Robinson S, & Gorman-Murray A. (2022). “Sex in placemaking activism: lesbian and queer women’s sex-based sociality in Sydney, Australia”, Gender, Place & Culture. Online 14 September. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2119943
Adam Possamai, Josh Battin, Victor Counted & Tony Jinks (2022) Reassessing the bounded affinity theory of religion and the paranormal: formative and ongoing religious rituals, Culture and Religion, DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2117218
Claire Moran & Virginia Mapedzahama (2022) Black bodies, Black queens, and the Black sisterhood on social media: perspectives from young African women in Australia, Journal of Youth Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2022.2098704
Mead, G., & Barbosa Neves, B. (2022). Contested delegation: Understanding critical public responses to algorithmic decision-making in the UK and Australia. The Sociological Review, 00380261221105380.
Neves, B. B., Colón Cabrera, D., Sanders, A., & Warren, N. (2022). Pandemic diaries: lived experiences of loneliness, loss, and hope among older adults during COVID-19. The Gerontologist. [Open Access].
Maksymenko, O. (2021). The most common environmental concerns and adherence to some eco-friendly practices among Ukrainians. Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, 4, 143–149. http://stmm.in.ua/archive/ukr/2021-4/10.pdf
| 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.
| Geoffrey Mead and Barbara Barbosa Neves (2022) ABC RN Op-ed: "Raging against the machine: What we can learn from the failure of Robodebt", August 25, https://www.abc.net.au/religion/learning-from-the-failure-of-robodebt/14029778
Barbara Barbosa Neves et al. (2022) The study investigating how pandemic-related lockdowns affected already lonely older Australians was syndicated across both the News Corp and AAP networks. It was also featured on Australian Senior News.
| Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom , Dinesh Wadiwel, Julia Cook, Michelle Peterie, Malini Sur, & Blanche Verlie (2022) Vulnerable Bodies And The Un/making Of Wellbeing. School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney. September 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 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.
| | New: The third event in the Sociology Out West 2022 Seminar Series will be held at ECU Joondalup on Thursday 20 October 5:30-7:00pm.
Join us for presentations from Dr Naomi Godden (ECU) and Dr Angela Leahy (Murdoch), please see the event flyer attached for abstracts and presenter bios.
The presentations and discussion will be followed by a self-funded dinner at a local restaurant. Details of where we will eat are still tbc, we'll let you know nearer the time.
This seminar will be held in blended mode so you can join us for the presentations (though sadly not the dinner!) no matter where you are based.
Meeting ID: 435 310 692 003
Passcode: MxVGjv
Join with a video conferencing device
Video Conference ID: 137 073 873 0
| | | New: SAVE THE DATE
2023 Social Sciences Week will be held from 4-10 September, 2023
| New: MDM Quarterly Seminar Series #2 (New date!)
| Gary Bouma TASA Workshop - Alone in a crisis: Reflections on recent personal, financial, and health shifts
Call for papers
Virtual 1-day workshop
2nd November 2022
Organiser: Lara McKenzie
‘Alone in a crisis’ is a full-day, virtual workshop presenting researcher findings and practitioner experiences on single and solo living people’s personal, financial, and heath-related experiences of recent crises, government pandemic measures and lockdowns, and the implications of any resulting shifts. It will bring together postgraduate, early career researcher, and senior academic sociologists, anthropologists, and social scientists, as well as practitioners and policy experts from across the world. Workshop participants will discuss the realities, consequences, and future needs of people living alone in times of crisis.
For the full event and submission details, read on... | Stories from an embedded position working as a sociologist
TASA Applied Sociology meeting (all welcome)
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 1:30 PM-2:30 PM (UTC+10:00) Brisbane (AEST).
Zoom: https://charlesdarwinuni.zoom.us/j/89724536348
Fellow member Edgar Burns will talk about his role supporting the environment and climate programs of a New Zealand Regional Council. His position is half paid by the Council and half by Waikato University. How do you relate to ecology scientists, planners, organisational rules, in the subtle game of helping shift public opinion? The Council is one of New Zealand’s dozen or so local authorities responsible for environment, water and land use. This applied sociology role is about influencing community understanding and motivation to change, given continuing environmental damage, and coming consequences for humans from climate change.
Edgar is a kiwi; he grew up on an animal-cropping farm; was the first generation of postgrads in Massey University’s new sociology program. His MA analysed New Zealand’s veterinary profession sociologically. He worked in government housing research before establishing and managing his own outdoor plant nursery. His PhD looked at why people become lawyers part-way through their careers. He taught at La Trobe for over a decade before his present job. | Healthy Societies 2022: Infrastructures of Care - Foundations and Fractures
Free online event, Wednesday 16 November, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT
Speakers include fellow members Greg Marston, Barbara Barbosa Neeves, Karen Soldatic, Alan Petersen and Alex Broom
Profound social transformations are reshaping the ways we ‘care’ (or fail to care) for ourselves, each other, our environments and our societies. The very materialities, moralities and infrastructures of contemporary care are being radically reformed and, at times, called into question.
| 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
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| 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.
| New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Indigenous Environmental Studies
University of Sydney
New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Climate Adaptation
Senior Research Fellow / Principal Research Fellow
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology
UNSW, Canberra
Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow
Australian National 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.
| | | New: Integrating community and family care for older people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
The University of Queensland
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...
| | 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 | 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.
| Conferences - Registrations Open
| Datafication. Platformization. Metaverse. The state of global internet policy
2022 Policy & Internet Conference
University of Sydney, September 28 and 29.
For speaker/panel and registration details, read on...
| Conferences - Call for Papers
| International Interdisciplinary Conference: “The role of Technology in the Shaping of Society”
17th Annual Int. Conference of AIS-ALBSA and Int. Partners
2nd Annual Conference of School Leadership: “Leadership and management in Education” (CSL – AADF)
University Kadri Zeka of Gjilan, KOSOVO, 11-12 November 2022
Submission deadline: 30 September. Read on...
| Call for Papers - Journals |
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...
| 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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