 | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
We hope you can join us TODAY, Thursday 16 February, (12.30-1.30pm AEDT) for 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. Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81117712998?pwd=YngvaEFtRUJWK3pDSXlEcjBuUkVQdz09 Meeting ID: 811 1771 2998, Passcode: 857607
We are happy to advise that there are 3 more great TASA Thursdays events locked in:
- March 16th: Sport, Community and Social Inclusion with TASA members Ramon Spaaij and Karen Block together with Maia Tua-Davidson from Welcoming Clubs
- April 20th: Live music, careers and a rebounding industry with TASA members Fabian Cannizzo and Ben Green together with Catherine Strong and Sam Whiting
- May 18th: Climate change and climate change activism with TASA members Liz Hamilton, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, and Milo Kei
Registration details for all of the above events will be available soon. If you would like to be a presenter/panellist for one of our TASA Thursdays events, please contact Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Editor.
| 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 TOMORROW February 17th. For the full details, read on...
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Lowe, K and Ridgway, A (2023). The Keepers of Secrets: Ethics and the Emotional Labour of Working with Privileged Populations During Criminological Research. In M. Adorjan & R. Ricciardelli (Eds.) Ethical Dilemmas in International Criminological Research (1st ed). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003241515-9
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Smith, A. K. J., Davis, M. D. M., MacGibbon, J., Broady, T. R., Ellard, J., Rule, J., Cook, T., Duck-Chong, E., Holt, M., & Newman, C. E. (2023). Engaging Stigmatised Communities in Australia with Digital Health Systems: Towards Data Justice in Public Health. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-023-00791-6 [OPEN ACCESS]
Dewey, B. T. (2022). Migration Flows, Communities, Cultural Practices and Gender: A Literature Review of Latin American Migration to Australia. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2132271
Meng-Hsuan Chou & Catherine Gomes (2023). Politics of on-demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms. Review of Policy Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12543 [OPEN ACCESS]
Catherine Gomes (2022). Keeping calm and carrying on: International students in lockdown. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 6 (1 & 2), pp. 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00044_1
| 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.
| | Career Development Grant - 2023
| The annual TASA Career Development Grant seeks to support the career development activities of TASA members where these activities are not covered by other funding.
A total of $4,500 is available, with a maximum of $1,500 available per applicant.
Application deadline: 20th May. Read on...
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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
| 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.
TODAY Thursday 16 February, 2023, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT.
See the top of this newsletter for the Zoom access details.
| TASA Tea Time
Heidi Hetz, our Equity and Inclusion Portfolio Leader, is going to continue to host our TASA Tea Time sessions this year. The first one is scheduled for March 6th at 3:30pm AEDT. You can register for the session here.
| Health Sociology Thematic Group Online Seminar Series
Tuesday February 21st, 1-2pm (Vic/NSW, ACT, Tasmania)
Masculine enhancement as health or pathology: Optimisation discourses in health promotion materials on performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs)
Authors: Gemma Nourse, Suzanne Fraser, David Moore
| 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: 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
Submission deadline: March 3rd
| | | New: Online lecturer in Sociology, Semester 1, 2023.
Charles Darwin University
The units include online teaching and marking in fist year unit 'Sociological Perspectives' and second year unit 'Social Identities and Relationships'.
If you are interested in this casual part-time position, please email a short CV to Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston by COB TOMORROW Friday 17 February.
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.
| | | | 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
| Sociologies of Health and Emotions
Health and emotions sociologists Marci Cottingham (Kenyon College, US), Rebecca E. Olson (University of Queensland, Australia) and Gillian Bendelow (University of Brighton, UK) are calling for abstracts to be considered for a special issue to be published by Open Access journal Frontiers in Sociology (edited by Hannah Bradby), affiliated with its new section on the Sociology of Emotions (edited by Stina Bergman Blix).
China and Climate Change: Towards a Socially Inclusive and Just Transition
Social Inclusion
Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion
| Making Connections: Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Australia Conference
March 9-10, 2023, Swinburne University of Technology
The conference will explore whether and how combining multicultural and intercultural approaches could enrich diversity policy
in Australia. The conference will focus on the role ‘intercultural cities’ could play in addressing rising diversity challenges.
For details, read on...
Connections, Collisions, Collapse
Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference
15th-16th June, South Australia
The 2023 Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference Committee is currently accepting abstract submissions for full-length, short and panel presentations, as well as proposals for visual artworks to be displayed. We are in the process of seeking permission from Kaurna Elders to host the conference at UniSA in the Bradley Forum. The event will be held on Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th of June. With this year’s theme of Connections, Collisions, Collapse we hope to envision futures that deconstruct our current world from a variety of perspectives.
Submission deadline: March 13. Read on....
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
World Convention
(In)Justice International
Finland March 28-31
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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