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We are excited to be able to share the news of last nights TASA Award winners. Next week, we hope to be able to share links to some TASA 2023 recordings. For now, a warm congratulations is extended to our 2023 Award winners who are:
| | Catherine Martin is the 2023 winner of the Jean Martin Award, which recognises excellence in scholarship in the field of Sociology and aims to assist with establishing the career of a recent PhD graduate.
Martin CA (2021) Metaphors of migration: A critical discourse analysis of the intersections between immigration, race and the nation in Australian press reports (1854–2018). Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, University of Western Australia, Perth, Austral | | | |
Their winning paper will now be free to access for the next 12 months. | | | Alex Ker, Gloria Fraser, Theresa Fleming, Cathy Stephenson, Anny da Silva Freitas, Richard Carroll, Thomas K. Hamilton & Antonia C. Lyons (2021) ‘A little bubble of utopia’: constructions of a primary care-based pilot clinic providing gender affirming hormone therapy, Health Sociology Review, 30:1, 25-40, DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2020.1855999
Their winning paper will be free to access for the next 12 months. | | | | Lutfun Nahar Lata is the 2023 winner of the Early Career Research Best Paper Award. This Award is for papers published in the previous 3 years (2020-2022).
Full access to the paper is currently available. | | |
Rachel Busbridge, Ashlee Cunningham & Mark Chou (2023) Enhancing perceptions of employability amongst first-year arts students and implications for student belonging, Higher Education Research & Development, DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2023.2269864 | 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... | 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...
| 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 | Community of Practice for Inclusive Research
Online, Tuesday December 5th, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM AEDT
Speakers include fellow members Christy Newman, Anthony K J Smith & Kerryn Drysdale
For details, and to register, read on...
| The first and only academic journal devoted to the study of femininities: the Journal of Femininities.
While there are numerous journals focused on masculinities, there has yet to be a single academic journal focused on femininities – until now! For years, we have dreamed of bringing symmetry to the study of gender through this flagship journal. Today, that dream becomes a reality as we proudly launch the Journal of Femininities.
We aim to cultivate and unify the field of Femininities by publishing cutting-edge research advancing theories and methods that deepen understandings of femininity. It is an international, peer-reviewed journal that welcomes contributions from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, psychology, gender studies, business, public health, education, political science, media studies, legal studies, family science, etc.). We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary work from feminist perspectives. We encourage research that explores femininity across intersectional axes, recognizing its complexity across race, sexuality, disability, class, and more. Click here to read more about the journal’s aim, scope, and submission guidelines.
If you would like to register as a peer-reviewer or submit an article, please click here.
Finally, you are invited to follow the Journal of Femininities on social media. You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter/X.
| 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:
STEP 1: Click here and log in
STEP 2: Click on the drop down menu to the right of your name in the purple bar (RH) at the top of the website (see 1st image below)
STEP 3: Click on Profile (see 1st image below)
STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. | | Submitting Newsletter Items | | We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced & with a link, where possible) for the next newsletter, to TASA Admin. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning. | | Updating your Member Profile | Personal pronoun preferences can be added to your profile. There are 9 combination options to choose from. Please let Sally in TASA Admin know if your preference/s is not on the list and we will have them added.
| | 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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