| Dear ~~first_name~~,
Have you registered for Post Grad Day?
A vital part of our TASA 2023 program is Post Grad Day, which will be held on Monday 27 November at the University of Sydney.
Join us in-person or online, for an engaging program that will explore how early career researchers and established academics were able to 'navigate their own early careers while also dealing with Imposter Syndrome'.
In-person delegates will also get the opportunity to participate in a hands on Zine Making Methods workshop facilitated by fellow member Ash Watson.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Monday 27 November 2023
Venue: The University of Sydney
Time: 9:00am - 1:10pm (includes lunch with TASA Executive for in-person delegates)
Format: In-person or Online
The event is free for members.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology |
TASA Tea Time is a space for members to come together and chat all things sociology. Come along to this casual space and share with like minded members.
Event times around Australia: 7:30am- 8:30am (AWST Perth), 9:00am - 10:00am (NT), 10:00am - 11:00am (SA), and 10:30am - 11:30am (AEDT Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Tasmania).
| You can check out our TASA 2023 program now, via the orange link below. Note, the blue circle icon peppered throughout the program depicts online presenters. Note, information on the keynote speakers, panel sessions and individual presenters is all available here.
|  | Abstract: Much has been said, written and argued in recent times about Australia’s constitution. We have heard a lot about its rules, laws, its immutability and its rare opportunities for modification. As a foundation document, the Australian constitution acts as a map for the ideal of a unified nation. It is rarely considered, though, that pre-invasion, our people probably had a constitution, many constitutions. Read on... |  |
Abstract: In my quest to answer a simple question about Australian settler social policy as it applies to Indigenous issues—namely, can it be ‘good’—I first had to confront the negative task of confronting how policy is conventionally approached. In the place of a focus on policy decisions and ramifications, I proposed approaching policy as a wilder configuration, one where every effort needed to be deployed to resist its claims to superior rationality and coherency. Read on...
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 | Abstract: Sociological theory is critical to our understanding of the world. While memoir is often dismissed as “women’s work” as it is anchored in individual experience, this talk explores how memoir writing can use theory to help to inform our understandings of the social through self-writing. Read on...
Note, Na'ama has been invited to give a 15-20 minute presentation during our Women's, Non-Binary, & Friends Breakfast.
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Abstract: Howard Becker, who passed this August, leaves a legacy of ideas about how to do sociology well. This includes a great deal of direction on how to see, how to be there, how to read, and how to write in a way that the social comes to life. In my talk I pay homage to Becker’s work on making representations and I reflect on alternative forms of storytelling. Read on...
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Note: you can access details of all TASA 2023 presenters on TASAweb here.
| | The Future of HASS - on during TASA 2023 | |
FREE EVENTS
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 4 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)
- Rhonda Itaoui (Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University)
- Gabriel Miller (President and Chief Executive Officer, Federation for the Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences, Canada)
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: Matthew Champion (Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social
Sciences and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne)
For catering purposes, registration is essential via the orange link below:
| | 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 |  | | TASA's Sociology of Media Thematic Group, invites you to join us on Wednesday 22 November 2023 for a live Panel Discussion: Reflections on the Referendum Outcomes - Where to from here.
Within this session guest discussants Professor Barry Judd and Professor Andrew Gunstone will provide their insights and deep reflections on the outcomes of Australia's recent Voice referendum and answer the burning question: Where to from here?
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Wednesday 22 November 2023
Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
|  | 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 | | | Alan Petersen (ed.) (2023) Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine. Edward Elgar Publishing.
| This timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies.
Through critically analysing the wide variety of approaches taken by sociologists of health and medicine, this Handbook explores what makes the field distinctive. Chapters cover the full human life span and review key theoretical viewpoints as well as significant empirical themes, drawing on cutting-edge research. The diverse selection of contributors offer insights into important areas of health and medical development including precision medicine, epidemics and pandemics, data-intensive medicine, AI, neuroscience, and future hospitals. The chapters also examine the implications of COVID-19 across various domains of health, medicine, and healthcare. Read on... | | | Stevens, C., Baldassar, L., O’Brien, E., Cokis, E., Krzyzowski, L., Du Plooy, M.G.C., Jones, B., Noonan, G. & Ottolini, F. (2023). Everyone’s business: Research into responses to the abuse of older people (elder abuse) in Western Australia. Perth: Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab.
| Borgstrom, E., Driessen, A., Krawczyk, M., Kirby, E., MacArtney, J., & Almack, K. (2023). Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss. The Sociological Review, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261231207196 [OPEN ACCESS]
Roberts, S., & Prattes, R. (2023). Caring Masculinities in Theory and Practice: Reiterating the Relevance and Clarifying the Capaciousness of the Concept. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231205978 [OPEN ACCESS]
| Stephen Crook Memorial Prize was established to honour the memory of Professor Stephen Crook in recognition of his significant contribution to Australian sociology. The Prize is awarded biennially, at TASA's Conference, to the best authored monograph within the discipline of Sociology published in the previous two years.
Raewyn Connell Prize is to honour the work of Professor Raewyn Connell in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Australian Sociology. In particular, it honours her contribution to sociological theory and research, and her support and encouragement of sociologists at the beginning of their careers.
Honours/Masters Student Award is given annually to the best Honours/Masters student in Sociology in each Australian university. Each winner receives a one-year student membership to TASA, making the student eligible for conference discounts, membership of Thematic Groups, the weekly members’ newsletter, online access to sociology journals (full text) and self-promotion opportunities in Nexus. For the full details, and to nominate your top Honours/Masters student in Sociology, read on... | New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in epidemiology/quantitative social science/demography
University of Sydney
Full time, Camperdown campus
Please note that the University shutdown period is from Friday 22nd December 2023 to Monday 8th January 2024. Applications and queries will be reviewed once they return from leave. Read on...
Lecturer in Cultural Studies (Multiple Positions)
University of Melbourne
Full-time; Continuing
Application deadline: November 30. Read on...
| 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.
| | | 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 | Professional Indemnity Insurance
| New: Looking for Indemnity Insurance
A fellow member practicing Family Law is investigating professional indemnity insurance to cover their practice. If you know of such an insurer, could you please email the details to Sally in TASA Admin.
| New: Survey
You are invited to participate in a global survey exploring the extent to which the results of a research study influence publication in the peer-reviewed literature.
The study takes about 5-10 minutes and is part of a research project being undertaken by multiple universities. The broad aim of this research is to build a better picture of factors influencing peer-reviewed publication across different academic fields.
The study may be accessed here. Participation is anonymous.
| Inaugural SHAPE Futures EMCR Annual Convention
| | 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.
| | | Gift memberships, for any membership category, can now be accessed at anytime via your membership profile screen. If you would like to gift a membership, to someone new or to a current member, please follow the steps below:
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| | TASA Documents and Policies | In case you are not aware, you can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2023 - 2024, and their respective portfolios, as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Values Statement, Statement on Academic Freedom, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures, Safe & Inclusive Events, Sustainable Events and TASA History.
| | Accessing Online Materials & Resources | | TASA members have access to over 90 peer-reviewed Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals encompassing over 63,000 articles. The image on the left shows you where to access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, when logged in to TASAweb. If needed, here is a short instructive video on how to access the journals. | | | TASA Admin (Sally): admin@tasa.org.au
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