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If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event on the Voice, with speakers fellow members Joann Schmider (Indigenous Portfolio Leader) and Dan Woodman (Immediate Past President) together with Kenny Bedford (Yes23 Campaign), you can catch up with the recording here.
We invite you to join us next week (September 21st 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST) for our TASA Thursdays event on Beyond textual boundaries: Using visual methods in sociological research, presented by fellow members Kazi Fattah and Dorinda t'Hart. The webinar will explore some of the issues surrounding visual methods and presentation, while also challenging some of the ethical concerns which can be encountered using visual data. You can register for the event here.
|  | New: The Voice to Parliament- What does it mean?
A panel discussion that will explore the forthcoming referendum on ‘The Voice To Parliament’
Wednesday 20 September, Hawthorn, Vic, 6pm - 7pm
Hosted by Swinburne’s Associate Professor Andrew Peters and featuring personal accounts from a panel of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts, this event will examine the details behind the Yes and No campaigns.
This will follow with an opportunity for Q&A.
Speakers:
- Ian Hamm, Chair of Swinburne’s Indigenous Governance Committee and First Nations Foundation
- Keshi Moore, Naarm Law Students on Voice, University of Melbourne
- Adam Mooney, Director of National Centre for Reconciliation Practice, Swinburne
- Mat Jakobi, Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Teaching and Learning, Moondani Toombadool Centre, Swinburne
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Resources
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Sarah J MacLean, Volatile substances are an amorphous category, making it hard to build a comprehensive body of research, International Journal of Drug Policy, 2023,104181, ISSN 0955-3959,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104181.
Ballantyne, G and Giarrusso, V 2023. Asian Australian Experiences of Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Victoria: a Preliminary Analysis, Journal of International Migration and Integration https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-023-01018-8 [OPEN ACCESS].
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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: extended to 16th September. Read on... | 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... | New: Professor in Sociology
London School of Economics
Lecturer in Sociology
Charles Sturt University
Assistant Professor (Sociology)
University of Massachusetts Boston
Application deadline: October 1st. 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.
| | | HDR Scholarship - Young Workers and Post-Industrial Citizenship
Deakin University
Fellow member David Farrugia is looking for two students with backgrounds in sociology, education, anthropology, or other critical social sciences, with an interest in youth, citizenship and employment and with an appetite for big ideas.
| | 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 | Multicultural Framework Review: call for contributions | New: Research Strategy Submission Multicultural Framework Review
Fellow member Andrew Jakubowicz has been engaged to prepare a short paper for the Commonwealth Government Multicultural Framework Review (here) that addresses Research (and to some extent data). These were not mentioned in the Terms of Reference but have been identified by the Review Panel as a matter of priority.
If you are a researcher with an interest in the area of Multicultural Policy and its related issues of migration, settlement, racism, interculturalism, and community relations, Andrew would welcome your contribution. Acknowledging the time pressure everyone is under, Andrew has prepared a short survey online that should take no more than six minutes to answer, though the option for more elaborate responses has been provided.
Respondents to the survey may remain anonymous and will not be identified in any submission made. If you have colleagues you believe may wish to contribute, please do pass the email on. Deadline is September 21 2023.
Survey link: https://s.surveyplanet.com/hqmaemb6.
Any questions, please email Andrew.
| Community of Practice Group
| New: The new Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer, Trans & Intersex people (CoPQTI) invites you to our inaugural events!
Beyond Marriage Equality: LGBTQIA+ Rights in 2023,
Monday 18 September, 6pm. This panel, chaired by Dr Bridget Haire, will speak to recent wins for LGBTIQA+ rights in Australia that go beyond marriage equality, and explore what needs to be done to achieve full rights for queer, trans and intersex people.
Making research more inclusive of gender and sexuality diversity: HDR perspectives
Wednesday 27 September, 7pm. The aim of this workshop is to increase the confidence of a new generation of researchers to ask questions about sex, gender, sexuality and innate variations of sex characteristics in appropriate, meaningful ways.
For background, the CoPQTI comprises UNSW academic and professional staff and research students, both LGBTIQ+ and allies, who hold particular expertise and interests in making research and other engagement and collaboration practices with queer, trans and intersex people more inclusive. If you are interested in hearing more about the CoPQTI, please contact Kerryn Drysdale (k.drysdale@unsw.edu.au).
| Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Marking 10 Years Since the End of Australian Car Manufacturing was Declared
A one-day research symposium, Adelaide, Thursday 15 February 2024
This one-day research symposium has been organised to mark 10 years since Australia’s last carmakers announced plans to close domestic manufacturing operations. By February 2014, all remaining carmakers had announced plans to end the domestic manufacture and assembly of passenger cars over the following 3-4 years. By October 2017, Australia’s car manufacturing industry had shut down completely.
Note, some funding is available to support the participation of Early-Career Researchers (ECRs), HDR students, low-income or unwaged researchers, or researchers from outside the academy, e.g., from industry, policymaking, or community organisations, including potential to subsidise travel and accommodation for participants travelling from outside Adelaide/South Australia.
| Exploring Swinger Clubs in the UK: Upside Down Pineapples, Erotic Hierarchies and the Pleasuring of Desire
Hybrid, TODAY 14 September, 4:00pm - 5:00pm, 360 Collins St Melbourne
The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society invites you to a research and practice seminar with Chris Haywood. The seminar introduces you to UK swinger clubs, who visits them, what happens in the clubs and how we might begin to explain the dynamics of gender and sexuality within these spaces.
| TG10 Digital Sociology WIP Workshop
Hybrid, December 14–15
The Digital Sociology Thematic Group (TG10) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), is organizing this second workshop for work-in-progress papers. The workshop is open to Early-Career Digital Sociology Researchers (Ph.D. Students and Postdoctoral Researchers) and will be held remotely and in-person in Belgrade on December 14–15, 2023. Suppose you are at this early career stage and seeking advice, evaluation, and intellectual encouragement in a supportive environment to enhance your work-in-progress paper toward its publication.
Abstract submission deadline: October 1. Read on...
| Kohli Fellowships 2024
The Kohli Fellowship for Sociology promotes researchers who have successfully finished their dissertation with excellent success. It provides financial support for a two-year postdoctoral stay at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) starting October 2024. This time should be used to engage in a new research project, to advance publications, and to develop research collaborations. As Kohli Fellow at the WZB you will form part of a vibrant intellectual community and participate in the scholarly life of your host research unit. Scholars of all nationalities whose research relates to the WZB’s research program are eligible to apply for the Kohli Fellowship for Sociology. We particularly welcome research projects with a focus on life course and generational issues – but other topics are equally considered.
Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for its 2024-2025 Early Career Work and Family Fellowships. The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes and integrate them within the WFRN research community. Fellows receive a 2024 membership in the WFRN, conference registration, and $250 to attend an Early Career Fellowship Preconference (June 19, 2024) and the 2024 WFRN Conference (June 20-24, 2024) in Montreal, Canada.
The Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) Fellowship Program
ACSPRI's mission is to help foster high-quality teaching and research in the social sciences and to enhance the impact of social science research. To help achieve this mission, ACSPRI is pleased to announce – the ACSPRI Fellowship Program – supporting the next generation of high-quality researchers in the social sciences.
| Global Scholars program - Call for Applications | Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
Applications for the 2024-2026 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program are now being accepted through October 30, 2023 (11:59 pm PDT). The program provides two years of unrestricted research funding, networking and mentoring opportunities for early-career researchers.
| Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times
Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
25–27 October
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