| The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. | | | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Keep an eye out for a dedicated email about TASA 2023, it will be arriving in your inbox very soon!
| We are collecting resources on the Voice. If you have something to add to the below list, please email the details (with links) to TASA Admin.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | |
Yvonne J. Burns, Corina Modderman, Janet Congues & Evelien Spelten (2023) Identifying Practical Knowledge for Introducing Information Systems in Community Social Care Agencies: A Scoping Review, Journal of Technology in Human Services, 41:1, 65-95, DOI: 10.1080/15228835.2023.2172126
| | Fattah, K. N. (2023). Toilers of the Shipyard: A Visual Account of the Working Lives of Dhaka’s Shipyard Workers. Visual Communication Quarterly, 30(1), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2022.2160983 | 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.
Becca Parkinson (2023) Faith Stories, Manchester University Press, April 12th (on Anna Hickey-Moody's book 'Faith Stories: Sustaining meaning and community in troubling times).
| | 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
Students nominated to date, for the 2022 Award, include:
- Deakin University - Hamish Tanian
- La Trobe University - Hannah Lacey
- Newcastle University - Blake Richards
- Swinburne University - Xavier Mills
- University of Melbourne - Charan Naidoo
- University of Sydney - Matthew Friedman
| TASA Thursdays
We have several TASA Thursdays event lined up:
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: Sociological Implications of Alienation in Families: The cancel Culture No-One is Talking About
Applied Sociology Thematic Group Seminar
Tuesday 16 May, 1-2pm (AEST) Online
Speaker: Dr Stanley (Stan) A. Korosi PhD (Soc) clinical sociologist and counsellor
Social alienation behaviours coerce children into cancelling a family member’s identity leading to their unwarranted rejection. A sociological view of parental alienation offers a structural perspective on social alienation in the family and its implications for public health policy not addressed in the current psychological and legal discourse.
Zoom: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/83669977005?pwd=TXhhRW1xNkVjTU9UV2lmbWhUTm5oQT09
Meeting ID: 836 6997 7005 Password: 439530
|  | | New: ISA World Congress of Sociology Practice Session
Friday 9 June 4:30-8:30, AWST, Forrest Hall, corner of Stirling Highway and Hackett Drive.
Are you presenting at the ISA World Congress in June/July? Or at another mid-year conference? If so, come along to present your ideas at a supportive and collegial practice session in early June. If not, come along to support your friends and hear about the latest sociologically-inspired research coming out of Western Australia.
This will be a rapid-fire presentation model with 10-15 minutes per presenter (depending on number of abstracts received) with structured feedback to help you improve your work.
Please send abstracts to sociologyoutwest@gmail.com by 19 May 2023.
If you are presenting 2+ papers at ISA, please feel free to send both abstracts if you would like to do so. You will only be allocated time to present one paper but both can be featured in our Sociology Out West event program.
This event is generously supported by the Forrest Research Foundation. There will be light refreshments and drinks provided after the presentations
| | | 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) | | | |
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).
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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), and Prof Barry Judd, University of Melbourne (Indigenous studies)
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...
| | | Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Valeria Pulignano
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... | | | |
Australian Welfare Reform: Crafting Out Alternative Futures
June 22nd, Melbourne
Keynote: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London)
| | | | 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.
Registration closes May 30th. You can register here.
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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...
| | | New: Social Sciences Week (SSW) 2023
4th to the 10th of September.
In case you are not aware, SSW is an annual event that celebrates and showcases the diverse range of social sciences disciplines and research in Australia.
For details, and to register events, visit the SSW website here.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
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New: Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Working closely with fellow member Peta Cook
Application deadline: April 25th. Read on...
Visiting Fellowships
Curtin University
TikTok Cultures Research Network (2 fellowships). For details, Read on...
Influencer Ethnography Research Lab (2 fellowships). For details, Read on...
Application deadline for both: April 30th.
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...
| 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 Journal Board Members
| Sociological Research Online & Cultural Sociology
The British Sociological Association are looking for Board members interested in making a contribution to the discipline, to fellow authors and to the journals through peer reviewing and also through discussions about the strategy and directions of the journals.
Expression of interest deadline: Tuesday, 25 April. Read on...
| 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).
| World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
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