| The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. | | |  | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
There are so many sociological events happening in the next few weeks. Aside from the Congress! there are events happening in-person and/or online. We hope you can make it to one of them. Next week, members of our Postgraduate Sub Committee are attending a workshop, being hosted by fellow member Dan Woodman at the University of Melbourne, with winners of the VIII ISA Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists as well as some ISA Executive members. It's a busy time!
In case you are available during the week of the Congress, we still need volunteers. If you haven't volunteered already, and you can, note that if you volunteer for 2 sessions in one day, you get a complimentary registration, for that day, to attend sessions of your choice. You also get online access for the full Congress sessions. It's also a great opportunity for you to meet fellow TASA members and overseas delegates. If you can volunteer, please click on the below link and record your details.
| As mentioned in previous newsletters, 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.
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| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Riggs, D. W., & Bartholomaeus, C. (2023). First-time parenting journeys: Expectations and realities. Cambridge University Press.
|  | All too often heterosexual first-time parents are treated as the unmarked norm within research on reproduction. First-Time Parenting Journeys maps out what it means to be situated within the norm, while providing a critical account of how social norms about parenthood shape, regulate, and potentially delimit experiences of new parenthood for heterosexual couples. Based on qualitative longitudinal research, this book tells the story of journeys to parenthood, highlighting the impact of gender norms, moral claims, emotion work, and generativity. While drawing on Australian data, the critical conceptual framework has broader applicability across Western contexts in terms of understanding normative family structures and parenting practices. By focusing on expectations about, and the reality of, new parenthood, it explicates the ways in which institutionalised norms about parenthood are internalised and explores what this can tell us about the broader contours of parenthood discourses. Read on... | | | Soo, L. M. J., Karthikeyan, N., Lim, K. M., Bartholomaeus, C., & Yelland, N. (2023). Children's lifeworlds in a global city: Singapore. Springer.
|  | | This book examines connections between policy contexts, school experiences and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Singapore. In particular, it explores how Singapore children’s everyday experiences inside and outside of school shape their orientations towards educational success. Alongside an analysis of school life and educational policies, it also considers children’s out-of-school activities, including leisure, homework, and enrichment activities, and connections between these and their school-based activities. The book draws on empirical data from Primary 4 classes in two Singapore schools in the form of student-completed surveys, classroom ethnographies, student responses to a learning dialogues activity, and a re-enactment of one child's out-of-school life, as well as curriculum and policy analysis. It provides readers with an in-depth understanding of Singapore Primary 4 children’s experiences inside and outside of school, including the structure of timetables and pedagogical approaches encountered in school lessons, children’s enjoyment of activities inside and outside of school, children’s engagement and wellbeing at school, and the impact of Singapore’s educational policies on children’s learning experiences. Read on... | | | Bartholomaeus, C., & Yelland, N. (2023). Children's lifeworlds in a global city: Melbourne. Springer.
|  | | This book examines the connections between policy, school experiences, and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Melbourne, Australia. It provides an in-depth consideration of Melbourne primary school children’s lifeworlds, exploring everyday stories and practices inside and outside of school. This includes consideration of the diverse ways that educational “success” may be understood in the context of Melbourne, productively moving beyond a narrow focus only on academic achievement. Situated alongside policy and curriculum analysis, the book draws on research in Melbourne Year 4 primary school classrooms in the form of student-completed surveys, classroom ethnographies, and student responses to a learning dialogues activity, as well as video re-enactments of out-of-school life. Through this it explores key aspects of children’s lifeworlds with a focus on school timetabling and pedagogical encounters, school engagement and belonging, and activities and everyday routines outside of school. This book offers a comprehensive and holistic exploration of children’s lifeworlds in Melbourne, drawing connections between children’s lives inside and outside of school, and the broader policy contexts. Read on... | | | Cris Townley, Coralie Properjohn, Rebekah Grace & Tom McClean (2023) Stay home, stay safe? Public health assumptions about how we live with COVID, Health Sociology Review, DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2023.2199724 [OPEN ACCESS]
Benjamin Hanckel & Adam Shepherd (2023) Representations of Gender categorizations: Examining the ways that young people re-curate gender in an urban science art gallery, Journal of Gender Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2219986 [OPEN ACCESS]
Anthony K. J. Smith, Kari Lancaster, Tim Rhodes, Martin Holt (2023) Dosing practices made mundane: Enacting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence in domestic routines. Sociology of Health and Illness. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13687
[OPEN ACCESS]
Del Tufo, A., Foster, R., Haire, B., Newman, C. E., Smith, A. K. J., Crowley, M., Burn, D., & McNulty, A. (2023). Understanding the health care needs of transgender and gender diverse people engaging with rural Australian sexual health centres: A qualitative interview study. Sexual Health. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH22159 [OPEN ACCESS]
Lejla Voloder (2023) When Izbjeglica and Muhadžir are Not Refugees: Translation in Focus, Journal of Intercultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2218639
David Rowe & Kelen Katia Prates Silva (2023) Women’s sport and media: a call to critical arms, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2023.2201663 [OPEN ACCESS]
Vasil, S., 2023. “I Came Here, and it Got Worse Day by Day”: Examining the Intersections Between Migrant Precarity and Family Violence Among Women with Insecure Migration Status in Australia. Violence against women. Online first: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10778012231159414. [OPEN ACCESS]
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Ann Game (2023) Kindness. Living in Relation, June 8th.
| The following three TASA Awards are now open for nominations:
Nominations close on July 17th. | |
More-than-Human Wellbeing Exhibition
Ash Watson, Megan Rose, Deborah Lupton, & Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor
The exhibition uses multimodal arts-based and multisensory methods – both digital and non-digital – to highlight ways of knowing and being within and beyond the world of self-tracking apps, electronic medical records, and smart devices for documenting illnesses and promoting health and wellbeing.
Open until Friday 18 August, UNSW Main Library Level 5
| TASA's Travelling Scholar Lecture: Judicial Work & Emotion
A new TASA Executive Initiative developed by outgoing Vice-President, Peta Cook
Presented by Sharyn Roach Anleu, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor at Flinders University
When: Wednesday 19 July 2023
Time: 6:00pm AEST
Format: In Person or online
Location: IMAS Aurora Theatre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, TAS
Cost: Complimentary
| Reframing sociologies of young people, education, work and identity in a ‘code red’ for humanity
Speakers: fellow members David Farrugia and Eve E Mayes and colleague Tebeje Molla
In-person and online, Deakin Downtown, Monday June 26th 5:30pm - 7:45pm, AEST
| Creative Methods Workshop - Call for Expressions of Interest
As part of the 2023 TASA Conference at the University of Sydney, the Sociology of Religion Thematic Group is running an interactive workshop on Creative Methods or Arts-based Inquiry in the study of religion, and we are searching for people to be on the panel.
If you are interested in being a panelist for this event, please send a short (200 word) pitch, to Gerry at Geraldine.smith@utas.edu.au, by 30th June
For details about this event, read On | | Looking back, looking forward: Margaret Abraham (immediate past president of ISA) in conversation with fellow member JaneMaree Maher
The event will be an opportunity for Margaret and JaneMaree to reflect on feminist research, leadership and activism
22 June, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Collins Street, Melbourne
| | | TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events - NEXT WEEK! | |
#HS23 Epistemic Justice for Healthy Societies
Online, June 20th, Sydney. 1:00pm - 3:00pm AEST.
Associate Professor Seye Abimbola (University of Sydney, Australia) will join Professor Nelson de Barros (University of Campinas, Brazil) to deliver their perspectives on epistemic justice in global health, with an introduction by SCHS Deputy Director, Dr Katherine Kenny and a discussion led by SCHS Deputy Director, Associate Professor Nadine Ehlers.
For the full details, and to register, read on...
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Disrupted plans, digital modalities, and undecided futures
June 22nd, 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, Melbourne and via Zoom
Join the Applied Sociology Thematic Group in an exciting dialogue between evidence, policy and practice. Hear from local and international speakers, followed by a facilitated round table discussion at which all participants in person will be able to share their experiences and learn from each other. For online participants, there will be an option to join online discussion after presentations. All participants will receive a free e-resource following the event with insights and resources captured from the day.
Correction from newsletter June 8th 2023: Prof Barry Judd, University of Melbourne (Indigenous studies) is no longer able to join the event.
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Single parenting, co-parenting, and post-separation families: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis
June 23rd, Melbourne
Keynotes: Dr Moeata Keil (University of Auckland), Professor Kathryn Edin (Princeton University), and Professor Kay Cook (Swinburne University).
| | | | Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Valeria Pulignano
| | | | ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and Transitions to Adulthood.
Transnational Mobilities and Youth Transitions
June 23rd, Melbourne, 9:30am - 5:00pm
Keynote: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
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Reimagining social security in Australia to rebuild our social safety net
June 22nd, Melbourne, 5:30pm
Speakers include: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London) Professor Kay Cook, Swinburne University, Associate Professor Elise Klein, ANU, Dr Dina Bowman, Brotherhood of St. Laurence, Nerita Waight, the CEO of Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, Chabel Khan, University of Melbourne, Natasha Thomson, disability self-advocate, Terese Edwards, Executive Director, Council for Single Mothers and their Children, Professor Karen Soldatic, University of Western Sydney
| | Decentering knowledge in researching migration of the Global South
Hybrid event, June 24th, 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 TODAY June 15th. You can register here.
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Place Economies
July 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
| | | 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.
In case you haven't heard, all JoS full-text articles will be free to access during the week of the Congress and 2 weeks post the event. It will be a great time to be promoting your published JoS works.
| Health Sociology Review - Volume: 32, Number: 1 (2023) has been published. It is a special issue on Sociological Aspects of Knowledge Translation. You can access the Table of Contents here. Note, most of the articles are available on open access.
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Two Level A/B Research Fellow positions
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies (SCHS), The University of Sydney (full-time, fixed term 2 years with possibility of extension)
One role is focused on health and one focused on the environment and food systems. Have a look at the Centre’s Research Themes to get a sense of the work they do, which spans many areas of the humanities and social sciences, and in conversation with STEM scholars (in this case the Charles Perkins Centre). Relevant areas of expertise for applicants include: sociology, anthropology, public health, qualitative research, science and technology studies or related fields.
For a casual chat about the role and/or the team, please feel free to contact fellow member Alex Broom or anyone else from the team (e.g. Katie Kenny, Michelle Peterie, Leah Williams Veazey, Jianni Tien, Roberta Pala and Imogen Harper.
Application deadline: 18 June.
Tenure-Track faculty member
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
| 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.
| | | Making sense of social capital concepts in the context of Northern Territory First Nations communities by engaging with culturally relevant indicators of social wellbeing
Charles Darwin University
Evaluation of the social and economic impact of Commonwealth legislated alcohol prohibition in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities in reducing alcohol related harm.
Charles Darwin University
Australian Research Council: Discovery Grant Understanding vicarious trauma in Australian foster care
Flinders University
Supervisor: fellow member Ben Lohmeyer
| | 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: Fellowships
University of Basel - The Forum Basiliense
| Reading for Life in Uncertain Times: Literature and Wellbeing
Online, 13-14 September
The symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their work. Practitioners from a variety of contexts — mental health clinics, hospitals, addiction clinics, libraries, community centres and so on — and researchers from a range of disciplines are invited to share their experience, data & insights, questions & hopes for the future.
Abstract submission deadline: July 3rd. Read on...
| The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration
Thursday, June 29, 12:00 13:00 AEST
Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre
221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125Australia (map)
| | Transnational Belongings: Practices of Placemaking and Participation in Central America and Europe
Speakers: Noelle Brigden (Marquette University, USA) and Katia Pilati (University of Trento, Italy)
Chaired by: Leah Williams Veazey (University of Sydney)
Monday 3 Jul 2023 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM AEST, University of Sydney (Camperdown) and on zoom
| | | On Solid Ground: Why we Need Gender Equity in Our Health Workforce
Co-hosted by: Sienna Aguilar, Australian Women’s Health Network
Tuesday 20 June, 12:00pm – 12:45pm AEST via Zoom
| InASA ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme
The 2023 International Australian Studies Association ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme is now open for applications. This publishing subsidy is designed to assist early career researchers working in Australian Studies, broadly defined. Applicants can apply for up to $1,500 to support the publication of a book. The scheme guidelines and application form are available from the InASA website: 2023 ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme – International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
Application deadline: 15 July.
Do you want to preserve and, potentially share, your research data?
Funding is currently available for secure digital archiving of qualitative research data for Studies of Education, Youth & Childhood Studies (SOCEY) Repository. Developed by a University of Melbourne and La Trobe University-led team, the repository is a secure digital platform for the archiving and sharing of qualitative research data. Hosted by the Australian Data Archive, its focus is material related broadly to studies of childhood, youth, and education.
For full details, read on...
| Big Questions in Work-Family
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
June 20-22, 2024, Concordia University in Montreal Canada.
More than 500 stakeholders in the work-family field are anticipated to attend, with a dynamic program focused on meaningful exchanges.
Submissions open in August and close November 1, 2023. Read on...
| Casualisation, Precarity and Career in Higher Education
Postgraduate Event - European Sociological Association
Online, September 27th
Keynote: Raewyn Connell
| National Library of Australia Scholarships and the Asia Study Grants
Guidelines for these scholarships and grants as well as links to the online application forms are available here.
Application deadline: 26 June. | | | 2023 Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture: How Did We Get to Here? A Conversation with Jeffrey Alexander and Peter Beilharz
Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture, Melbourne.
Wednesday June 28, 5:45pm-7:45pm
For details, and to register, read on...
Agnes Heller Lecture 2023 - Professor Michèle Lamont
La Trobe University
Tuesday June 27th, 12:30pm - 2:00pm AEST
La Trobe University City Campus
| Journals - Call for Abstracts
| Transient migrants and their information behaviours (special issue)
Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration
This Special Issue specifically looks at the information behaviours of transient migrants – groups of people who are temporarily in a country because of study, work, lifestyle or humanitarian reasons.
Special Issue Editors Shanton Chang, Dana Mckay, & Catherine Gomes
Abstract submission deadline: 1 July. For full details, read on...
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