| Dear ~~first_name~~,
Our first TASA Thursdays event for 2023 is only two weeks away and we are starting the 2023 series off with a discussion on 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights and the current scene’. Panellists include fellow members Raewyn Connell and Pam Nilan with colleagues Joshua Roose, and Mario Peucker. Thursday 16 February, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT. You can register for the event here.
| XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Melbourne, Australia | June 25 - July 1, 2023
| TASA is offering several bursaries to TASA members, see the below list, to assist members to attend the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in June this year. If you have had an abstract accepted for the Congress then you may be eligible to apply for one of the bursaries. Applications close on February 6th, 2023. Note, bursary recipients will be expected to attend the ISA 2023 World Congress, Melbourne, in person.
Note, the early bird registration for ISA 2023 closes on March 22nd.
| 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 has been extended to February 17th. For the full details, read on...
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | John Scott and Zoe Staines (2023) Island Criminology. Bristol University Press.
| Ten percent of the world’s population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. This book moves beyond the question of whether islands have more, or less, crime than other places, and instead addresses issues of how, and by whom, crime is defined in island settings, which crimes are policed and visible, and who is subject to regulation. These questions are informed by ‘the politics of place and belonging’ and the distinctive social networks and normative structures of island communities. Read on... | | | Burns, E. A. (2022). Global Peak Society. In R. Baikady, S. M. Sajid, V. Nadesan, J. Przeperski, M. R. Islam, & G. Jianguo (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change (pp. 1–25). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Emzin, Christopher, Scott, John, & Staines, Zoe (2023) Feeling Black and Blue : Indigenous police liaison officers in the Torres Strait Region. In Watson, Danielle, Amin, Sara N., Wallace, Wendell C., Akinlabi, Oluwagbenga (Michael), & Ruiz-Vásquez, Juan Carlos (Eds.) Policing the Global South : Colonial Legacies, Pluralities, Partnerships, and Reform. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 242-254.
Hogg, Russell & Scott, John (2023) Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Australian Convict Colonies. In Bartlett, Tess & Ricciardelli, Rosemary (Eds.) Prison Masculinities : International Perspectives and Interpretations. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 5-23.
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Olasunkanmi-Alimi, T., Natalier, K., & Mulholland, M. (2023). African migrant women in the aged care sector: Conceptualising experiences of racism, micro-aggressions and Otherness. Journal of Sociology, 59(1), 87–103. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211023979
Flore, J., Hendry, N. A., & Gaylor, A. (2023). Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Social imaginaries in lockdown. Journal of Sociology, 59(1), 197–214. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211036757
Franklin, M., Willis, K., Lewis, S., & Smith, L. (2023). Chronic condition self-management is a social practice. Journal of Sociology, 59(1), 215–231. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211038059 [AVAILABLE ACCESS]
Collyer, F. M., & Williams Veazey, L. (2023). The state of the discipline: Australian sociology and its future. Journal of Sociology, 59(1), 251–270. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211041402 [AVAILABLE ACCESS]
Burns, E. A., Palmer, S. D., Edwards, D., Farrelly, C., Grogan, L., Hayes, N., Meyers, N., O’Mallon, S., & Pridham, B. (2022). Teacher Educator Talk on Day One of Pre-Service Semesters: Performative Class Management. Journal of Education for Teaching, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2022.2154142
| Cabalquinto, E. (2023). Book Review: Leah Williams Veazey, Migrant mothers in the digital age: Emotion and belonging in migrant maternal online communities. Journal of Sociology, 59(1), 271–273. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211070063. Note, this book won the Raewyn Connell Prize last year.
| 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.
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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
| New: TASA Applied Sociology Thematic Group Online Seminar
Wednesday February 8th, midday AEST (Qld), 1pm (Vic/NSW, ACT, Tasmania), 11:30am (NT), 12:30pm (SA) 10am (WA).
The British Sociological Association’s Nick J Fox will be discussing the development of their new applied sociology curriculum, its content/shape in more detail, who can access/use it and how, in what way it has been received and implemented in UK institutions, and any barriers/opportunities observed in its reception. The formal presentation will be about 25-30 mins, followed by questions and general discussion. All welcome. You can access the seminar via the following Zoom link: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/86936457457?pwd=Qm9oS29NRXRjTVlSTHBaOWdkcUJvQT09
| TASA Thursdays
We hope you can attend our first TASA Thursdays event for 2023 on 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights and the current scene’ with panellists Raewyn Connell, Pam Nilan, Joshua Roose, & Mario Peucker.
Thursday 16 February, 2023, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT.
Registration for this event is available here.
| TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events | Healthy Societies 2023: Southern Perspectives
June 22nd, 2023, Sydney
Keynote: Professor Nelson Filice de Barros
For the full details, read on...
| Australian Welfare Reform: Crafting Out Alternative Futures
June 22nd, Melbourne
Keynote: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London)
| Disrupted plans, digital modalities, and undecided futures
June 22nd, 2023, Melbourne
Plenary Speakers: Professor Crystal Abidin (Curtin University), Dr Joshua Kalemba (Flinders University), Dr Brendan Churchill (University of Melbourne), and Dr Jacqueline Menager (Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet).
| Transformative social science: a dialogue between evidence, policy and practice
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Panellists: A/Prof Catherine Robinson, UTAS (sociologist), Anna Adcock (sociologist & Māori scholar), Research Fellow in the Centre for Women's Health Research, Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati (sociologist) & Dr Simone Casey, Senior Policy Advisor ACOSS (social policy)
For the full details, read on...
| Single parenting, co-parenting, and post-separation families: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynotes: Dr Moeata Keil (University of Auckland), Professor Kathryn Edin (Princeton University), and Professor Kay Cook (Swinburne University).
For the full details, read on...
| ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and
Transitions to Adulthood
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
For the full details, read on...
| Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Valeria Pulignano
For the full details, read on...
| Working Together Ways Yarning Circle
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Carol Vale and Dr Penny Taylor
For the full details, read on...
| Decentering knowledge in researching migration from the Global South
June 24th, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote speakers: Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor of Sociology, Australian Catholic University & Lan Anh Hoang, Associate Professor in Development Studies, the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne.
For the full details, read on...
| Place Economies
Date: TBC - Adelaide
Keynote: Professor Ian Woodward, Southern Denmark University
For further details, read on...
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) 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.
Submission deadline: February 12.
| | | 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: ARC Project Research Assistant
RMIT
The Research Assistant will work closely with current TASA Treasurer Professor Anna Hickey-Moody and an academic research team to undertake high quality research activities pursuant to the aims of the Australian Research Council funded project: LP200301027 Creative industries pathways to youth employment in the COVID-19 recession.
New: Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Disability Studies
Toronto Metropolitan University
Applications close: February 10. Read on...
New: Limited Term Faculty (LTF) Position in Disability Studies
Toronto Metropolitan University
Applications close: March 1. Read on...
2 Lecturers in Culture and Society, School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Western Sydney University, Parramatta campus
x1 Full-Time, Ongoing Position
x1 Part-Time(0.5FTE), Ongoing Position
Assistant Professor - Sociology
Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
| 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 Scholarship - Informal Sport and Urban Diversity- Domestic
Macquarie University
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.
| | 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
| China and Climate Change: Towards a Socially Inclusive and Just Transition
Social Inclusion
Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion
| | Western Sydney University are proud to announce that they are hosting the 2023 Queer Displacements Conference – the second Asia-Pacific conference to cover LGBTIQ+ asylum and migration!
22-23 February 2023 | Western Sydney University (Parramatta City campus).
The Queer Displacements is the first and only conference in the Asia Pacific designed to comprehensibly foreground protection and settlement challenges of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) forcibly displaced people. It is created to champion the voices and the lived experience of LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced people. The Queer Displacements conference is the space for awareness raising, solidarity, building alliances and engaging the whole of society in ensuring justice, protection and solutions for LGBTIQ+ people in forced displacement.
Register to attend today. Spaces are limited. Register here. | | | World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
World Convention
(In)Justice International
Finland March 28-31
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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