| Members' Engaging Sociology | Dear ~~first_name~~,
We have some places left for our TASA 2023 Queer Drinks and Women's Breakfast events. If you can't make it to the colloquium, you can still register for the two social events. If you need assistance registering, please contact Penny, our Events Manager.
TASA Queer & Allies Drinks
Venue: Courtyard Restaurant and Bar, The University of Sydney
Date: Tuesday 28 November
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Tickets: $25.00
TASA Womens Breakfast: Women, Non-Binary and Friends
Speaker: fellow member Na'ama Carlin
Venue: Courtyard Cafe - Bevery Room, The University of Sydney
Date: Wednesday 29 November
Time: 8:00am - 9:15am
Tickets: $40.00
| | 2023 Biennial Membership Survey
| Please find a link to TASA's biennial membership survey below. We hope you can respond to the survey, which will be open until November 14th (AEST). Survey responses will help us provide you, and your fellow members, with a high-quality professional association that meets members' needs.
| | Gary Bouma Workshop Grants
| TASA's Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program is an initiative to support and promote sociology. Successful applicants are awarded $5,000 to run a workshop that will advance research within sociology and showcase TASA as the face of sociological/interdisciplinary research in the region; engage with issues of national concern; advance knowledge; support innovative ideas, and, have the potential of feeding into policy and practice development.
| You can check out our TASA 2023 program now, via the orange link below. Note, the blue circle icon peppered throughout the program is for online presentations. Note, information on the keynote speakers, panel sessions and individual presenters is all available here. The Book of Abstracts will be included in next week's newsletter.
| | The Future of HASS - on during TASA 2023 | |
SAVE THE DATES
Congress of HASS Plenary Panels (free and open to all, registrations will open soon)
The Future of HASS in the University
Monday November 27, 5.45pm
Wallace Theatre, University of Sydney
Followed by drinks and canapes at the Courtyard Bar and Restaurant
Facilitated by Luke Slattery (Higher Education journalist), in the context of the Universities Accord process, this panel will be a discussion with 3 panellists reflecting on how HASS is faring in the University sector, including its reputation with students, employers, and the wider community.
- Lisa Adkins (Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of Sydney)
- Frank Bongiorno (Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of History ANU)
- Third panellist, TBC.
The Future of HASS Research
Thursday November 30, 5.45pm
Wallace Theatre, University of Sydney
Followed by drinks and canapes at the Refectory
This panel will be a facilitated discussion with 3 panellists reflecting on how they see HASS research faring in the near future, including its role in addressing contemporary and future challenges and the likely funding context HASS researchers will face. The Federal Government’s acceptance of the recommendations of the recent Review of the Australian Research Council Act provides a background for the discussion.
- Anika Gauja (Executive Director for Economic, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Australian Research Council)
- Terry flew (Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow – Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sydney)
- Kylie Brass (Director of Policy and Research, Australian Academy of the Humanities).
- Facilitator TBC.
| | We extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Janine Gertz, whose PhD work has been shortlisted for the AIATSIS 2023 Stanner Award – the best academic text by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander writer.
| | | We also extend a warm congratulations to our members (bolded below) who were successful in the recent Discovery Project announcements. Our thoughts are also with those members who were not awarded funding in this round.
Side-Hustles: Young People and Employment-Adjacent Entrepreneurship.
Dr David Farrugia; Dr Brendan Churchill; Associate Professor Kim Allen
This project aims to understand new working biographies created by young people that combine employment with entrepreneurial activities. 'Side-hustles' are increasingly common amongst young workers, but while entrepreneurship is promoted globally as a policy solution to youth unemployment there is no comprehensive evidence base about the nature of young workers' entrepreneurial activities or the outcomes they experience. The evidence created by this project supports efforts to facilitate youth entrepreneurship, address youth unemployment, and enhance Australia's future labour force. Outcomes include policy papers and reports, a policy forum, academic outputs, and a project website, offering benefit to policymakers, educators and employers.
Understanding the implications of pandemic delays for the end of life.
Associate Professor Emma Kirby; Associate Professor John MacArtney
The untold toll of Covid-19 is emerging in ‘avoidable deaths’ linked to late(r) diagnosis or treatment due to pandemic-related delay. How delays are experienced and felt across families and communities requires urgent attention. This project aims to understand the implications of pandemic delay for dying and bereavement, including the sociocultural factors that shape experiences of illness and care amid delay. The significance of this project lies in its innovative sociological approach; expected outcomes include the generation of new knowledge on needs at the end of life that move across contexts and settings. Benefits include provision of findings that will inform social and health policy and practice improvements to enable good deaths.
Developing systemic interventions for intimate partner financial abuse.
Professor Kay Cook; Dr Rachael Burgin; Dr Georgina Dimopoulos
This project addresses the significant national problem of intimate partner financial abuse, which continues long after women leave abusive relationships. It works with frontline service providers and victim survivors to identify how financial abuse is perpetrated through financial, legal and government systems, and develops a framework for understanding post-separation financial violence. It harnesses policymakers' and practitioners' expertise through co-design workshops to develop practical solutions and a framework to implement them. The application of Safety by Design principles within implicated systems will benefit affected families, by closing down avenues for the perpetration of financial abuse.
Understanding the role of trauma in alcohol and other drug-related problems.
Dr Renae Fomiatti; Dr Kiran Pienaar; Dr Michael Savic; Professor Helen Keane; Professor Carla Treloar
This project aims to investigate the relationship between trauma and alcohol and other drug (AOD)-related problems. Using a robust set of qualitative and ethnographic methods, the project expects to advance international knowledge on how experiences of trauma influence AOD consumption, and the diverse factors that shape variation in experience and outcomes for individuals. Expected outcomes include targeted recommendations to improve AOD responses, policy and trauma-informed AOD care, and increased capacity of the Australian health workforce to respond to trauma and AOD-related problems. This should provide significant benefit by reducing the harms, and economic and social costs associated with AOD consumption.
Mapping Australian Homemade, Amateur & Do-it-Yourself Cultural Economies..
Professor Paul Long; Dr Ash Watson; Dr Ali Alizadeh; Associate Professor Shane Homan; Dr Thomas Bartindale
This project aims to fill a significant gap in the Australian Government’s National Cultural Policy to ‘Revive’ the cultural sector. The project expects to reveal the ignored sector of non-professional, homemade, amateur and do-it-yourself creativity. Intended outcomes include the first detailed study of the contribution of the 45% of Australians who creatively participate in the arts as producers of forms including poetry, music and fine art and their relationship with the professional cultural and creative industries. Participatory mapping methods that expand new knowledge should provide public benefits in broader recognition and understanding of the value of everyday Australian creativity, seeking to impact democratic policymaking.
Cultivating digital music making in regional Australia.
Professor Andrew Bennett; Professor Andrew Brown; Dr John Ferguson; Associate Professor Catherine Strong; Dr Benjamin Green
The project aims to examine effective methods of aligning local infrastructure and online resources to support digital music creators and their communities in regional Australia. It will promote digital creative industries and augment existing investments in regional art institutions and digital fabrication infrastructure. The project collaborates with regional digital artists to share their skills and expertise, with the goal of improving coordination of resources and infrastructure for the growth of regional digital creatives and engagement with their communities. Knowledge outcomes will assist governments in optimising the delivery of creative services and resources in regional Australia.
Improving digital sexual literacy in Australia.
Professor Alan McKee; Associate Professor Jennifer Power; Professor Catharine Lumby; Dr Catherine Page Jeffery
This project aims to theorise digital sexual literacy in Australia and identify useful interventions aimed at increasing this literacy. We will map the ecosystem of digital Sexually Explicit Material (SEM) in Australia, identifying the ways in which Australians both consume sexual images and represent themselves as sexual beings in digital contexts. This data will be used to theorise digital sexual literacy, including both the "reading" and "writing" of sexual representations. The data will inform the formulation of useful interventions to support increases in digital sexual literacy in Australia.
Aboriginal Exemption: Truth-telling, History, and Healing.
Associate Professor Katherine Ellinghaus; Dr Ashlen Francisco; Associate Professor Jennifer Jones; Dr Lucinda Aberdeen
This project aims to develop accessible, Indigenous-led knowledge about little known twentieth-century Australian policies that caused pain and dislocation in Indigenous communities. Expected outcomes will include an anthology of family stories, school curriculum materials, symposia, and methodological articles. Benefits include empowering descendants to access archival information about exemption in culturally safe ways, disseminating culturally appropriate histories, financial support for Elders acknowledging their time and expertise, and a model of collaboration in which Elders lead Indigenous and non-Indigenous historians to undertake urgent history-making.
|  | | Join us on Thursday 16 November for our next TASA Thursday session 'Just Get Offline’: Girls’ and Young Women’s Experiences of Online Gender- Based Violence in Australia,' presented by Hannah Klose.
Online gender-based violence (OGBV) is a burgeoning area of interest in both academic literature and public debate. However, despite new and emerging studies on gender-based violence and technology in Australia, there has been little research into how girls and young women contextualise and describe their experiences of OGBV (Nadim & Fladmoe 2019; Salerno-Ferraro et al. 2021).
Within this session Hannah will examine how this study allows for a better understand girls’ and young women’s normalised experiences of abuse, by drawing on Liz Kelly’s continuum of sexual violence (1987;1988). This session will discuss how this study contributes to knowledge in the relatively unknown area of girls’ and young women’s experiences of OGBV. Additionally, the complexity of these behaviours is critically analysed in the context of social media use, which also sheds light on how OGBV is understood, identified and experienced by girls and young women.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday 16 November 2023
Time: 12:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
| | TASA Thematic Group Events
|  | On behalf of TASA's Sociology of Religion Thematic Group, we invite you to join us on 30th November 2023 for an interactive workshop on Creative Methods or Arts-based Inquiry in the study of religion.
Arts-based inquiry or creative methods help researchers to explore unique ways of gathering, representing, and sharing research. These approaches allow for a variety of voices to speak through the research and thus provide richer understandings of human experience. It is a cross-disciplinary and versatile field that utilizes creative mediums such as art, poetry, photography, film, theatre, and creative writing to engage with and present research.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday 30th November 2023
Time: 9:45am - 12:30pm
Location: Room 310, Eastern Avenue & Auditorium and Theatre Complex, University of Sydney
Cost: TASA Members $5.00 | Non-Members $15.00
PROGRAM
As part of the workshop you will be invited to participate in one of the following activities:
Activity 1: Zine making Methods
Facilitated by Ash Watson
Activity 2: Witnessing
Facilitated by Samantha Hauw
Activity 3: Lego Serious Play
Facilitated by Laura Simpson Reeves
Activity 4: Tarot Reading in Precarious Times
Facilitated by Anastasia Murney |  | Registrations are now open for De-centring academic expertise: The Politics of knowledge production and social transformation which will be held from 4-5 December 2023 at the University of Melbourne & Online.
Within this symposium, we want to consider how difference and uncertainty within research relationships can be productive forces for change. Audre Lorde, for instance, memorably called for methods of social change via the development of new tools for relating across difference. If we are to 'know differently', following Claire Hemmings, embodiment and affective responses must be central to the research frame. 'Affective dissonance,' within this view, is productive and can facilitate social transformation and promote 'affective solidarity'. Rather than promoting solutions (as if such an answer exists), we invite attendees to explore the complexity of research politics and practices, and consider ways to transcend the power dynamics that currently instantiate who, what, where, when, and how research occurs. Thinking through how we collectively work at the intersection of the university, community, and government navigate competing imperatives to develop projects, conduct research and produce transformative outputs is thus essential to the project of social justice.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: 4-5 December 2023
Location: University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Format: Please note this Symposium will be a Hybrid event
Registration: Includes morning tea & lunch on both days and afternoon tea on day one.
This event is delivered by The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Emotions and Affect, Critical Disability Studies and Applied Sociology Thematic Groups. Hosted by University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences. | Dear Friends of Sociology Out West,
You are invited to Sociology Out West’s end-of-year picnic. This is a great opportunity to catch up and have a well-earned celebration of this year’s successes.
WHEN: Friday the 1st of December
TIME: 4pm onwards.
WHERE: At James Mitchell Playground South Perth Foreshore
We have had a great year and we look forward to celebrating with you!
Best wishes,
The Sociology Out West team | | | TASA Tea Time, hosted by Aisling Bailey, 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 November 20, 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).
Note, this event is for TASA members only.
Register here or email events@tasa.org.au.
| New: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Social and Political Sciences (Multiple Positions)
University of Melbourne
| 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.
| | | New: Rainbow Families PhD Top-Up Scholarship
University of New South Wales
Researching the experiences and needs of LGBTQ+ parents and their children, and developing skills in collaborative community-led research
| | 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 | Inaugural SHAPE Futures EMCR Annual Convention
| | New: SHAPE Futures EMCR Annual Convention
Panellists will discuss the ARC Review, the University Accord and other policy processes currently in train, focussing on the impact of, and opportunities for, EMCRs to inform sectoral changes, and how, through advocacy networks like SHAPE Futures, EMCRs can contribute to ‘shaping’ the future of Higher Education in Australia.
To attend this event free of charge, SHAPE asks that delegates sign up to the SHAPE Futures network (free) so that they can continue to work with them to advocate for EMCRs in SHAPE disciplines into the future.
To join SHAPE Futures Network, click here.
| | | Journal: Special Issue - Call for Papers
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New Worlds of Logistical Labour – spaces, places, technologies, workers
Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
This special issue aims to assemble papers located at the interface between studies of work, labour and the evolving field of critical logistics. It intends to address the core question: what exactly is new about ‘new’ work and labour in logistics?
Muslim women in the 21st Century: Agency, influence, lived experience
Religions: a Q1-ranked, peer-reviewed, open-access journal
Muslim women are often portrayed monolithically in popular as well as political discourse. Even the academe has, at times, been dominated by an Orientalist gaze that exoticises the “Muslimwoman” to use miriam cooke’s neologism. This special edition aims to challenge this homogenizing discourse by featuring a range of diverse voices and perspectives.
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