| Dear ~~first_name~~,
We'd like to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt thanks to TASA's Vice-President, Kim Humphrey. Kim, with the support of Penny and Sally, organised last week's successful Colloquium.
We've started to upload some photos & video recordings from the event.
More will be added soon.
| | | We extend our very warm congratulations to fellow member Karen Soldatic who has been appointed the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing. We wish Karen the very best in her exciting new role. You can read about Karen's appointment here.
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TASA Tea Time has evolved and will now be a Book Club. Our very first TASA Book Club shall be taking place online on Thursday February 29th, 2024 at 6pm (AEDT). We are happy to invite you to join us, and welcome book nominations that you believe fellow TASA members would enjoy exploring. We shall focus upon works that have some form of societal reflective element that could be a work of fiction, non-fiction, or something in between. Please send your suggestions to Aisling Bailey aabailey@swin.edu.au, our Equity & Inclusion Portfolio Leader, and we will announce the first book to be discussed in a January newsletter. We look forward to seeing you on February 29th.
| Incase you missed it, thanks to convener Ricki Spencer, TASA Media Voices recently held a panel discussion titled: Reflections on the Referendum: Where to from here?
Within this session, guest discussants Professor Barry Judd and Professor Andrew Gunstone provided their insights and deep reflections on the outcomes of Australia's recent Voice referendum and answered the burning question: Where to from here?
| | | | TASA 2023 Colloquium Recordings
| | Thank you to everyone who supported this year's TASA 2023 Colloquium at the University of Sydney.
For those of you who would like to catch up or re-watch some of the great presentations delivered throughout the event, you can now access some of the recordings via our TASA 2023 Website.
Please note: Not all sessions were recorded. | | |
If you missed our last TASA Thursdays event for 2023, Just Get Offline: Girls’ and Young Women’s Experiences of Online Gender- Based Violence in Australia, you can catch up with the recording here.
| | | Ben Spies-Butcher (2023) Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation, Anthem Press. | Neoliberalism has transformed work, welfare and democracy. However, its impacts, and its future, are more complex than we often imagine. Alongside growing inequality, social spending has been rising. Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation asks how we understand this contradictory politics and what opportunities exist to create a more equal society. It argues an older welfare state politics, driven by the power of industrial labour, is giving way to political contests led by workers within the welfare state itself. Advancing more equal social policy, though, requires new forms of statecraft, or ways of doing policy, as well as new models of organising.
Drawing on examples of social policy change since the 1980s, the book explores how seemingly similar reforms reflect distinct political dynamics and facilitate different social outcomes. Read on... | | | This Health Sociology Review special issue puts sociology in conversation with burgeoning palliative care scholarship addressing questions of wellbeing. Biomedical approaches continue to dominate approaches to care and caregiving within palliative and end-of-life contexts. Although palliative care is broadly acknowledged to call for human-centred forms of practice and care, relationality and social aspects are often lowlighted with conversations dominated by questions of its modelling, measuring, and funding. This special issue poses sociological challenges and alternative approaches to practice in public health systems.
Abstract submission deadline: 13th February. Read on... | 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: Principal Analyst, Gender Responsive Budgeting (VPSG6)
Department of Treasury and Finance
2-year fixed term
New: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, International Politics and Policy
James Cook University
Full Time - Continuing
The position will only remain open until filled.
New: Lecturer, Anthropology
James Cook University
Full Time - Continuing
The position will only remain open until filled.
New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow in Sociology
University of Sydney
Application deadline: 1st February, 2024. 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 | 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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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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