| The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. | | |  | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Fellow member Heidi Hetz, who has held the Equity and Inclusion Portfolio Leader role since the since the 2020 Annual General Meeting, has stepped down from the Executive Committee for personal reasons. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Heidi for her contributions to TASA. During Heidi's time on the Executive, she worked on numerous panels and sub-committees, initiated the Career Development Grant, helped develop TASA's policies on Safe & Inclusive Events and Sustainable Events and introduced the monthly TASA Tea Time sessions. News of Heidi's replacement will be in a newsletter soon.
Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Portfolio Leader, has offered to run the next TASA Tea Time session on May 3rd, at 12:30pm AEST. The registration link to this event will be in next week's newsletter.
We are excited to share the news that TASA is seeking an on-going part-time staff member; an Events Manager. The Events Manager would manage, coordinate, promote and host TASA events, including our annual conference. The person would work autonomously (from anywhere in Australia) as well as alongside TASA’s Executive Officer and relevant TASA Executive Portfolio Leaders. We are seeking someone with event and project management experience who has a broad range of skills and the ability to exercise considerable judgement, initiative, discretion, and independence. With some luck, we will find someone who will stick with the role for many years becoming a part of TASA's growing family (we currently have over 800 members). If you know of someone that may fit the role, please share the position description and application process with them that is available here. (note, the top of the ad has Melbourne as the location because Seek doesn't have a 'working from home' option to select).
Speaking of events, we hope you can join us for our next TASA Thursdays on April 20th at 12:30pm AEST. Fabian Cannizzo, Ben Green, Sam Whiting & Catherine Strong will be discussing Live Music, Careers and a Rebounding Industry. You can register for the event here.
For those of you who missed our recent event on Sport, Community and Social Inclusion, with speakers Ramon Spaaij, Karen Block, Adele Pavlidis & Maia Tua-Davidson, thanks to Roger Wilkinson, the sound on the recording has been fixed and is available here.
| | XX World Congress of Sociology | Important: if you have not registered yet for the forthcoming XX World Congress of Sociology and you would like to be in the program, you need to register TODAY. If you have a co-author that has registered then you can register later. To register, visit here.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Raewyn Connell: Research, Politics, Social Change by Raewyn Connell. Melbourne University Press (early May release).
| The book is a selection from the author's writing from the 1970s to the 2010s, intended to show how knowledge about major social issues develops and deepens. The selection includes five themes important in the author's work:
1. understanding masculinities
2. The concept of gender
3. The ruling class in Australia
4. Social inequalities in education
5. Global politics of knowledge.
Each theme is illustrated by an early and a late article, with short introductions describing how they came to be written. Three extracts from fieldwork reports show the empirical basis of the author's work more directly: they concern gender relations in public sector workplaces, managers in neoliberal corporations, and a trans woman's experience of gender transition. Read on...
| | | Daile Lynn Rung, Heidi Hetz, David Radford, 2023, ‘‘I came to Australia with very big hope, big wishes, big goals’: Applying ‘mobility work’ and ‘resettlement work’ to explore the emotional labour and subaltern masculinities of refugee-background men’, in Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities, Garth Stahl and Yang Zhao (eds.), Routledge, London,
| Wendt, S., Clarke, J., Mayer, W. & Blackburn, D (2023) Report on the Roundtable Consultation Event – Understanding domestic violence and religion: Exploring how faith-based organisations can be part of the solution. Friday, 28 October, in-person at St Athanasius College, Melbourne, and online. Social Work Innovation Research Living Space, Flinders University.
| 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.
| Ash Watson's Call for new stories and submissions
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| | 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...
| | 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 have several TASA Thursdays event lined up:
April 20th: Live Music, Careers and a Rebounding Industry. Speakers: Catherine Strong, Fabian Cannizzo, Sam Whiting & Ben Green. You can register for the event here.
May 18th: TASA . Speakers: Liv Hamilton, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant & Milo Kei. You can register for the event here.
June 15th: The Voice. Speakers: Joann Schmider (Indigenous Portfolio Leader) and others TBC.
If you would like to be a presenter/panellist for one of our TASA Thursdays events, please contact Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Editor.
| New: Narratives, needs, networks: understanding militant wellness
Health Sociology Thematic Group Online Seminar Series
Tuesday April 18th, 1-2pm (Vic/NSW, ACT, Tasmania)
Speaker: fellow member Vivian Gerrand
| New: Shut Up and Write
Sociology of Youth Thematic Group
Next Wednesday April 5th, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, AEST.
Meeting ID:821 5316 9447 Passcode:103116
| TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events | |
#HS23 Epistemic Justice for Healthy Societies
June 20th, 2023, Sydney. 12:30pm - 4:00pm AEST.
Keynotes: Associate Professor Seye Abimbola (University of Sydney, Australia); Professor Nelson de Barros (University of Campinas, Brazil); Associate Professor Anita Benoit (University of Toronto, Canada); and Associate Professor Nazrul Islam (BNU-HKBU United International College, China)
For the full details, and to register, read on...
(note recent event title, keynotes and date change) | | | Australian Welfare Reform: Crafting Out Alternative Futures
June 22nd, Melbourne
Keynote: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London)
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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...
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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...
| 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; and Irudayja Rajan, Professor at the International Institute for Migration and Development (IIMAD), Kerela, India.
For the full details, read on...
| Place Economies
July 5th and 6th- Adelaide. The first afternoon/evening (i.e., the 5th) will be at UniSA City West; the second full day (i.e., the 6th) will be at Flinders Victoria Square Campus.
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.
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Tenure-Track faculty member
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Applicants specialising in computational social science, text mining, social network analysis, and data science are strongly encouraged to apply.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Tasmania
A central focus of the role will be management of the UTAS Rough Sleepers Initiative
Application deadline: April 23. Read on...
Research Fellow
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
Research Fellow
Australian National University
Carry out independent and collaborative research on the governance of health, technoscience and well-being
| 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 | New: Law and Emotion: A misunderstood relation
The lecture is being presented by two leading North American scholars in Law and Emotion: Professor Susan Bandes (DePaul University, Chicago) and Professor Richard Weisman (York University, Canada).
Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW, Law Courts Building
Tuesday 16 May (5.15pm reception for a 6pm start).
| New: Animal Companionship and LGBTQ People’s Health and Wellbeing
TOMORROW Friday March 31st, 4:00pm - 5:00pm AEDT.
Online and in-person (Melbourne.
| New: Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice
June 16 - 19, 2023, Zanzibar University’s main campus and Stone Town, Zanzibar
Submission deadline: April 15. Read on...
Policy innovation for inclusive internet governance
Policy & Internet Conference 2023
Sep 28-29, The University of Sydney
Submission deadline: April 16. Read on...
Contributing to and with STS
AusSTS 2023 Inaugural Conference
Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th July, UNSW, Sydney
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
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