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Welcome to the final newsletter for 2022. If you have suggestions/feedback on how we can improve on our weekly newsletter for 2023, please email the details to TASA Admin and put NEWSLETTER in the subject line.
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We would like to take this opportunity to wish you the very best for 2023. It's going to be a big year for TASA! as the host of the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (Melbourne, June 25 - July 1, 2023). It's an exciting time for TASA and we hope that you can be a part of the event.
Please note, TASA Admin will be closed for the first two weeks of January. The next newsletter will be published on Thursday January 19th. If you have content you would like included, please email the details to TASA Admin and put NEWSLETTER in the subject line. | We extend our warm congratulations to fellow member, and current TASA secretary, Kay Cook who has been appointed to the federal government's Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee. This committee will provide a real opportunity for sociological research on women’s economic security to inform the federal budget process and make a meaningful difference to women and children living in poverty. You can find some of the press releases and media reports listing the panel members here, here, and here.
| Postgraduate Sub-Committee 2023-2024:
Call for New Members | TASA’s Postgraduate Portfolio Leader, Richa George, is calling for expressions of interests to join TASA’s Postgraduate Sub-Committee (PGSC) for the 2023-2024 term. This PGSC supports the Postgraduate Portfolio Leader in representing and furthering the interests of TASA’s postgraduate members. The PGSC consists of a maximum of seven members who usually serve a two-year term and meet online approximately six times a year as well as face-to-face at the annual conference.
The deadline for nominations is January 27th. For the full details, read on...
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Leahy, Angela. (2022) The stateless person, the citizen and human rights: A revised neo-Hobbesian theory of human rights for sociology. Sociology, 56(6), 1087-1102. 10.1177/00380385221083872
Halafoff, A., Lam, K., Rocha, C., Weng, E., and Smith, S. (2022) Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, Post-colonialism and Materiality, Journal of Global Buddhism. https://www.globalbuddhism.org/article/view/1995
Rajcan, A., & Burns, E. A. (2022-3). Interacting with librarians to locate Australian sociology PhDs in the era of constant university restructuring. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2022.2151161
| 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.
| The Sociology & Animals, Sociology & Activism and the Social Stratification Thematic Groups have come together and formed a new blog, edited by fellow member Nita Alexander, called Fickle Futures: the 'New' Homelessness. You can read about the blog launch here. Fellow member Josephine Brown has contributed a 2-part series to the blog about the Northern Rivers Housing Crisis:
| | The Jean Martin Award, a part of the legacy of the late Jean Martin (picture left), recognises excellence in scholarship in the field of Sociology and aims to assist with establishing the career of a recent PhD graduate. Excellence in scholarship in the field of sociology, and the balanced treatment of sociological theory and research are the main criteria for deciding the Award.
The current round is open to theses for which a PhD has been/is formally awarded between the period March 1st 2021 to 28 February 2023.
| | | | Honours Awards - Call for nominations
| TASA's Honours/Masters Student Award is given annually to the best Honours/Masters student in Sociology in each Australian university. The Award is:
- Determined by the convenor (or equivalent) of the Sociology Honours/Masters program in each university
- Available to Honours/Master students who have a) completed a sociology major, and b) had their Honours/Masters thesis supervised and/or examined by a recognised sociologist in the current year
- In recognition of receiving the best overall mark in Honours/Masters for that year
| ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and Transitions to Adulthood
Friday 23rd June 2023
Keynote speaker: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari) - pictured top right
Valentina Cuzzocrea is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Her expertise gravitates around youth issues. Her last work has appeared in ‘Higher Education’ (with Ewa Krzaklewska), ‘Scuola Democratica’ (with Fabio Bertoni and Giuliana Mandich), ‘Mobilities‘(with David Cairns) and ‘Journal of Youth Studies’. She has co-curated with Bjorn Schiermer and Ben Gook, ‘Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions: A Global Perspective’, Brill, 2021; ‘Youth Collectivities: Cultures and Objects’, Routledge, 2021, and, with Barbara G. Bello and Yuri Kazepov ‘Italian Youth in International Context’ (Routledge, 2020). She has been chair of the ESA RN 30 Youth and Generation.
Event blurb: Young people aged 18-30 represent the most mobile cohort across the globe. Much of this mobility is encouraged and facilitated by current migration, education and social policy, reflecting the widely accepted view that transnational mobility will provide youth with enhanced life chances and competitive job skills as they transition to adulthood, as well as benefit the community more broadly through an increasingly cosmopolitan and agile workforce. Yet these assumptions have been largely untested, and research and policy have remained narrowly national in focus. This symposium brings together leading and emerging scholars from around the world who are researching transnational youth mobility to share and consolidate findings on the impacts of mobility on young people’s transitions to adulthood with one another as well as with youth mobility stakeholders.
|  | Call for Abstracts
Young people’s ‘work’ is contested and debated: politicians discuss skills-shortages, training, higher education, and workforce patterns, while young people’s lived experiences of work are shaped by gender, class, location, race, ethnicity as well as the impact of intersecting crises. Young people’s ‘leisure time’ is now also commodified in new ways, with the rise of the social media influencer, the streamer, and the normalisation of ‘always on’ work conditions mediated through casual contracts, on-call arrangements, and gig platforms. At the same time, counter trends are emerging: at the macro level, industrial relations changes are proposing greater gig economy governance, while at the micro level, discussions of work-life balance are popularising around ‘the great resignation’, ‘quiet quitting’, and ‘digital detox’ narratives.
What are the key issues and challenges facing young people around work today? What opportunities are there for disrupting ways of working enabled by new technologies and social movements? This symposium will bring together cutting edge research to answer these questions.
| TASA Thursdays
Our TASA Thursdays events for 2022 have ended. We are very happy to report that we have locked in our first event for 2023, though!; 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights’ with panellists Raewyn Connell, Pam Nilan, Josh Roose, & Mario Peucker. Thursday 16 February, 2023, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT. Registrations details will be available soon.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 4 (December 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Matters of Time in Health & Illness
Issue 1, 2024 | |
This special issue will bring together papers exploring how time relates with and in health and illness. We encourage submissions that think with ‘time’ in many ways: as a heuristic device for exploring the sociological dimensions of how health and care unfold (in prolonged and fleeting ways); as a sociohistorical situating of health and care practices; as a way of measuring and constituting health experiences and events; and as a speculative orientation towards anticipated and imagined futures of health.
Guest Editors: Mia Harrison, Anthony K J Smith, and Sophie Adams.
| | | Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Issue 2, 2024 | |
Worldwide, it is estimated that approximately 30% of women have experienced violence (WHO 2021a) and that the prevalence of violence against women and girls increases significantly once broader social inequities are taken into account such as Indigeneity, disability, race and ethnicity, 2SLGBTIQ+ status, and age (WHO 2021b). Interaction with the healthcare system can provide an opportunity for a coordinated response to be enacted that provides critical care to women (Fitts et al., 2022). While there have been decades of advocacy for action to address the rates of violence against women, the breadth of minority and marginalised women’s experiences of accessing healthcare following violence are only gradually becoming known.
Guest Editors: Michelle Fitts and Karen Soldatic
| | | New: Assistant Professor - Urban Inequality
University of Toronto
Relisted: Tenure-Track Faculty Position
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Applicants specializing in computational social science, text mining, social network analysis, and data science are strongly encouraged to apply.
Associate/Fellow or Senior Fellow
On prestigious £1.3m, five-year European Research Council Starting Grant RECEDE: ‘REgulating Criminal justicE DEtention: glocal prospects for improving health and safety in detention and society’.
Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for 2023-24 and 2024-25.
The Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS) at the University of Tokyo
For details, including application instructions, salary and housing arrangements, and further information, please see the position description. Applications are due 1 February 2023. Enquiries should be directed to kate.dariansmith@utas.edu.au
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Tasmania
Working with fellow member Catherine Robinson
Application deadline: 22nd January 22. 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: PhD project that complements an Australian Research Council funded study on Informal Sport, Urban Diversity and Social Resilience.
The research is led by fellow members Amanda Wise (MQ) and Kristine Aquino (UTS) et al. under whose supervision the successful candidate will work.
Pandemic parenting: Investigating reproductive, maternal and infant health care during the COVID-19 pandemic
University of Tasmania, with fellow member Jennifer Ayton as supervisor
The positions will remain open until filled. For details, read on...
Fit for purpose medical professionals - Fit for purpose: Investigating the teaching and learning of social accountability medical humanities informed curricula for Tasmanian medical students
University of Tasmania, with fellow member Jennifer Ayton as supervisor
The positions will remain open until filled. For details, read on...
Micro-biopolitics and the deep relationality of (self)care: Examining the politics and practices of care for the self and for others
University of Sydney, with supervisor Katherine Kenny
| | 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 | Call for Papers - Journal
| Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction," edited by Matthew DelSesto (Boston College) and Stephen Pfohl (Boston College).
This thematic issue explores the growing interest in ecological sustainability policies, programs and practices related to the criminal justice system. Contributions should highlight how these approaches are reducing recidivism, facilitating prisoner resettlement, or supporting social inclusion.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2023 | Deadline for Articles: 31 July 2023. For full details, read on... | Religion in Modern Education: Conflict, Policy and Practices
The Australian National University
13-15 April 2023, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Abstract Deadline: 14 February 2023. Read on...
Unsettling Certainties
Society for the History of Emotions' Fourth Biennial Conference
University of Adelaide over 28 November to 1 December 2023
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