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Dear ~~first_name~~,
Thank you to those members who have expressed their support, and recorded comments, for TASA's Voice statement. For a list of resources demonstrating a variety of perspectives on the Voice, read on...
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Ten years ago fellow member Deb King, who was TASA's immediate past president at the time, suggested a call be put in the weekly newsletter asking for members to submit details of their publications. The first call went in on August 22nd, 2013 (see the image of that call below). Although members started emailing their publications, they expressed discomfort about promoting their work and it took some time before the awkwardness was missing from those emails. It's terrific that members have grown comfortable with promoting and sharing their publications and view sharing them widely as a way to support TASA and the discipline!
|  |  | Join us on next Thursday 24th August for this month's TASA Thursday Post Grad Webinar presented by Richa George (Postgraduate Portfolio Leader) titled: Breaking your research out of the academia bubble - How to get your research into the mainstream with speakers, fellow member Belinda Lunnay and colleague Elle Choo.
A discussion surrounding the challenges and benefits of disseminating research findings into mainstream media and to the wider public.
Research isn’t much use unless it gets to the people who need to use it. With the rise of digital media, knowing how to best disseminate research findings for greater public understanding is crucial. This is especially relevant for ECR’s when considering grant and funding applications and how they can best demonstrate the reach and impact of their research.
In particular, we would like to centre the discussion around the following:
1. Examples of how you have disseminated your own research: where, how, the benefits you have noticed
2. Challenges researchers might face in trying to publish through avenues other than academic journals
3. Advice you would give to PhD candidates/ECR’s on first steps to breaking their research out of the academic bubble and into the “real world”
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday 24 August 2023
Time: 12:30PM- 13:30PM (AEST)
Format: Zoom Webinar - login details will be provided 1-2 days prior to the event
| | TASA Tea Time is back! and now being hosted by the Equity and Inclusion Portfolio Leader Aisling Bailey.
TASA Tea Time is a space for members to come together and chat all things sociology, TASA, #TASA2023, and other related topics. Come along to this casual space and share with like minded members.
This event, scheduled for Tuesday August 29, will run from 8:30am- 9:30am (AWST Perth), 10:00am - 11:00am (NT and SA), and 10:30am - 11:30am (AEST Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Tasmania, Brisbane).
| | | It is with deep sadness that we share the news that fellow member Simon Prideaux passed away on the weekend after being ill for a few years. While Simon was battling for his life, his vision of creating an international collective to help stamp out global injustices was brought to life; (In)justice International. Because of his vision and passion to see it through, Simon has left an incredible legacy. Fellow member Karen Soldatic is part of the original (In)justice International team and she will work hard to make sure the global collective continues to grow and thrive.
Being England based, we can say with absolute certainty that if Simon was still with us he would have emailed TASA Admin to gloat about the Lionesses win over the Matilda's last night! We are going to miss his cheeky, spirited emails.
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As previously mentioned, the usual suite of conference bursaries are available for TASA 2023. The deadline for all five bursaries, listed below, is August 28th.
TASA's Postgraduate Impact and Engagement Award is also open for applications.
This annual award recognises the impact and engagement of a Postgraduate TASA member’s scholarship that is of high social value to Australian society and/or sociology. We invite TASA Postgraduate members to submit an application (or nominate others) for outstanding impact or engagement with sociological scholarship. Nominations are also welcome from supervisors or peers.
| In addition to recent announcements of TASA members' involvement with the International Sociological Association's (ISA) Research Committees (RC) and Thematic Groups, we extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Craig Brown who was elected to the Board of RC35 Concepts and Terminology and RC16 Sociological Theory 2023-2027. Congratulations also to fellow member Brad West on being elected to the Board of RC16 Sociological Theory 2023-2027 and Nick Osbaldiston who now a Co-Editor of Theory: The RC16 Sociological Theory Newsletter.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Bridges, D., Lewis, C., Wulff, E., Litchfield, C. & Bamberry, L. (Eds.). (2023). Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies: Power, Privilege and Inequality in a Time of Neoliberal Conservatism. Routledge.
| Exploring scholarship, research, practice and activism on gender, feminist and queer studies, this edited collection examines, analyses and critiques the nature and causes of inequality, disadvantage and marginalisation faced by women, non-hegemonic and LGBTIQA+ identities who do not fit hegemonic notions of masculinity, femininity and heteronormativity.
The chapters in this book critically analyse and challenge visible and invisible power relations, privilege and prejudice by problematising the artificial organisation of people into hierarchies that preference hegemonic masculinities, white and heteronormative identities. In questioning often unchallenged and legitimised inequality and disadvantage, this book locates itself in the juxtaposition where the lived experiences of individuals, activism, community participation, research and scholarship collide with mainstream, local, national and globalised culture and politics. Read on... | | | Bridges, D. & Wulff, E. (2023). Making the Link: Secular democracy, marriage equality and abortion rights. In D. Bridges., C. Lewis., E. Wulff., C. Litchfield. & L. Bamberry. (Eds.). Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies: Power, Privilege and Inequality in a Time of Neoliberal Conservatism. (pp. 216-230). Routledge.
McFarlane, A., Stack, H., Maria, S. & Bridges, D. (2023). Paramedicine, organisational culture and the problem of sexual harassment. In D. Bridges., C. Lewis., E. Wulff., C. Litchfield. & L. Bamberry. (Eds.). Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies: Power, Privilege and Inequality in a Time of Neoliberal Conservatism (pp. 174-188). Routledge.
Mills, A.J., Neal-Smith, J. & Bridges, D. (2023). “A boy’s own tale”. Using intersectional frameworks to chart the reproduction of historical discrimination in aviation. In D. Bridges., C. Lewis., E. Wulff., C. Litchfield. & L. Bamberry. (Eds.). Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies: Power, Privilege and Inequality in a Time of Neoliberal Conservatism (pp. 65-77). Routledge.
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John Tierney, Sally Weller, Tom Barnes & Andrew Beer (2023) Left-behind neighbourhoods in old industrial regions, Regional Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2023.2234942 [OPEN ACCESS]
Block, K., Fernandez, B., McGee, T., Albarazi, Z., Brennan, D. (2023) Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. (online 10 August 2023) [OPEN ACCESS]
Fernandez, B., McGee, T., Albarazi, Z., Brennan, D., Block, K. (2023) At risk of statelessness: Children born in Lebanon to migrant domestic workers. International Migration Review (online 31 July 2023) [OPEN ACCESS]
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Cancelled?: Taking a Closer Look at 'Cancel Culture'
Online, 5 September 2023 at 10:00 am – 11:00 am
TASA members, Claire Tanner, Brady Robards and Kiran Pienaar are convening a panel discussion on ‘cancel culture’ for Social Sciences Week (4-11 September).
Hosted by Monash University in partnership with Deakin University
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De-centring academic expertise: The politics of knowledge production and social transformation’.
Call for Abstracts
The symposium will take place at Melbourne University’s Parkville Campus 5th and 6th December with keynotes by Associate Professor Crystal McKinnon (Uni Melb) and Nadia Matiazzo (CEO Women with Disabilities Victoria).
Abstract submission deadline: 11th September. Read on...
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LGBTIQ health, minority stress, and smoking as a queer practice
‘If there was a church for smoking, I’d be there every Sunday’: LGBTIQ health, minority stress, and smoking as a queer practice.
The emergence of LGBTIQ Health as a subcategory of public health is formative of contemporary queer citizenship. Increasing interest in the management and care of queer populations through public health over the last fifteen years has driven a range of health promotion activities aimed at changing the drug use behaviours of queer people.
In-person and online, TOMORROW Friday August 18, 4:00 pm - 5:00pm AEST, La Trobe University City Campus
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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 TOMORROW Friday 18 August, UNSW Main Library Level 5
| The Great Debate: Does Sport Unit Or Divide Us?
6pm - 9pm, September 5th, National Library of Australia
With speaker fellow member David Rowe
| 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. ABC Radio National have expressed interest in the week and are keen to explore the program at the end of July to see where they can promote or cover any events.
For details, and to register events, visit the SSW website here.
| 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.
| New: TASA Executive seeks to appoint a new editorial team for the Journal of Sociology for the four-year term 2025–2028.
The term of the current editors expires at the end of 2024, although copy for the first issue of 2025 will be organised.
The journal receives financial and administrative assistance from TASA and from the publisher, Sage. Manuscript submission is done online through ScholarOne. All members of the editorial team must be TASA members and ideally will be located within a department of sociology or a School/unit that offers a major sequence of sociology, including doctoral studies. The Executive are willing to consider applications from an editorial team at a single university or a consortia of staff at two or more universities. Such consortia will be required to demonstrate that they have the capability to work effectively across locations. TASA will provide the Managing Editor with a complimentary TASA membership.
Applicants are also required to show that they have institutional support for the management of the journal, and to specify the nature of this support. Selection protocols and application instructions are available via the orange link below. Additional information is available from the TASA President, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy or from the current Editor in Chief, Helen Forbes-Mewett.
Expressions of interest should be emailed to TASA Admin by 9am Monday October 16th, 2023.
| Call for proposals for Special Issue by Guest Editors - Issue 1, 2025
Each year HSR publishes a special issue on a matter of central importance to health sociology and related fields, edited by guest editors. Previous special issues have addressed topics around Indigenous knowledges, violence against women, temporality, posthuman perspectives, trans health, sex tech, COVID-19 and self-tracking.
The Editors of HSR encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues exploring new ideas and the cutting edge of their field of expertise. We particularly welcome proposals for special issues with a focus on novel empirical domains, theoretical frameworks and/or methodologies in the sociology of health and illness (for example, the intersection of health sociology and climate change).
Proposal submission deadline: September 22nd. Read on... | Lecturer in Sociology
Australian National University
| 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. | | | | In case you are not aware, you can add job and scholarship opportunities to our publicly searchable Jobs & Scholarships Board via your TASA membership profile, see image below: | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Locating Asian Racialisation and the Asian Subject in a Settler Colony
Online, Tuesday, 5 September, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AEST
| Workshops Program grants
The Academy of the Social Sciences
Up to eight workshops will be funded, providing a maximum grant of $9,000 (excl GST). Whether you're exploring emerging trends, examining pressing societal challenges, or driving meaningful change, these grants offer the financial support needed to bring your workshop concept to life.
| Opening Soon - Call for Applications | Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
A call for applications to the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program will open on August 30th. The program provides two years of unrestricted research funding, networking and mentoring opportunities for early-career researchers.
| | Building Trust in Humanitarian Action: Migrant and Refugee Perspectives
Monday 21st August, 12pm - 2pm
Western Sydney University, Parramatta City campus
To register, please click here. | | | The WA Migration Update
8 September
The Update brings together academia, communities, not-for-profits, the private sector and government, to share experiences and research on migration and settlement, and improve understandings of these critical contemporary issues.
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