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Date: 12/21/2023
Subject: TASA members newsletter: December 21st
From: TASA



Dear ~~first_name~~,
 
We are pleased to announce that TASA Thursdays will be delivered once again throughout 2024. As such, we are calling for expressions of interest from TASA members who would be interested in sharing their work.

TASA Thursdays provide an opportunity for members to showcase their research or present on a topical issue, while also being a great platform for sociologists to connect with likeminded people.
 
If you would be interested in participating in the 2024 calendar of TASA Thursdays, please complete the following Expression of Interest form prior to Friday 5 January 2024.
 

Alternatively, if you have questions regarding TASA Thursdays, please contact Penny Toth, TASA Events Manager via events@tasa.org.au.
TASA Bookclub
Save the date!
 
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.
 
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.
Publications

Books

Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 252pp.
 

Book Chapters

Bhatia, M. and Poynting, S. (2023) ‘A Violent Dream: Importing the “Australian Solution” to the United Kingdom’. In M Bhatia, S. Poynting and W. Tufail (eds) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 191-201.
 

Journal Articles

Ben Lohmeyer, Kirsten Macaitis & Richard Schirmer (2023) Jesus, the Bible and ‘I feel like I should be left-leaning’: The liberalising effect of sociology and diffused religion in Australian non-university faith-based higher education, Journal of Beliefs & Values, DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2023.2291623
 

Zines

Ash Watson (2023) So Fi Zine #14
 

Health Sociology Review

CFP HSR 2025 SI
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...
TASA Awards
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.
Nomination deadline: March 3rd, 2024. Read on...
 
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.
Nomination deadline: March 3rd, 2024. Read on...
 
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... 
Employment
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Research
University of Tasmania
Application deadline: Friday 2 February 2024, 11.55pm. Read on...
 
Research Fellow - Multiple Positions
The Australia Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW)
Monash University
Application deadline: January 15th. read on...  
 
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, International Politics and Policy
James Cook University
Full Time - Continuing
The position will only remain open until filled.
For details, read on...
 
Lecturer, Anthropology
James Cook University
Full Time - Continuing
The position will only remain open until filled.
For details, read on...
 
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...
 
 

Jobs Board

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.
Current Employment Opportunities
PhD Scholarships
New: An exciting PhD stipend opportunity has arisen for a student to join the team at the ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab in beautiful Perth, Western Australia.

The PhD research project will align with fellow member Catriona Steven's ongoing program of research with possible topic areas including:

- Migration trajectories and career aspirations of aged care sector care-workers and clinicians
- Education and training of care-workers, including those from culturally diverse backgrounds
- Cross-cultural communication and relationships between staff, clients and families in aged care services
- Social class and migration, particularly intra-ethnic class relationships and intersectional classed positions
- Abuse of older people occurring in ethnically-diverse families and family-like relationships

Candidates should have completed Honours or Masters research in Sociology, Anthropology or a related discipline.

Please pass on this information to suitably qualified, excellent students, and share this email in your networks.
 
For further details, read on... 
 
Interested candidates are welcome to contact Catriona by email: c.stevens@ecu.edu.au

 
New: HDR Scholarship - Community based mental health and wellbeing primary prevention strategies
Deakin University is offering a unique PhD scholarship opportunity focusing on community participation in mental health and wellbeing primary prevention strategies. The research will explore a range of factors impacting mental health and wellbeing outcomes of families facing adversity, including their participation in prevention initiatives.
For details, read on...


 
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
For details, please contact fellow member Christy Newman
 

Scholarships Board

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.
Current Scholarship Opportunities
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: 
Jobs and Scholarships Board
Other Events, News & Opportunities

Save the Date

Social Sciences Week 2024
9-15 September 2024
SSW2024 promises to be even more fun, insightful and intelligent than ever before. So mark your calendars, spread the word and get ready for a week of activities. 
 

Call for Panel Abstracts

STS approaches to study contestations of medical evidence-based knowledge and recommendations

This panel at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam (16-19 July, 2024) is open for abstract submissions until 12 February. Please submit through this link: P151: STS approaches to study contestations of medical evidence-based knowledge and recommendations (nomadit.co.uk)

The past decades have seen an increasing prominence of social movements related to vaccine hesitancy, nutrition debates, and complementary and alternative medicine. Here, people’s perceptions about science come into conflicting relationships with biomedical research, recommendations and the work of formal experts and clinicians.

How, and with what effects, do these movements contest established medical knowledge? How do formal experts, clinicians, and policymakers respond to these contestations? What new discursive spaces, such as digital platforms, have emerged that offer room for contestation? What role do new scientific practices, such as citizen science, play in these contestations? This panel seeks to bring together multidisciplinary STS research that engages with these questions across medical fields, ranging from screening to prevention and treatments. Across these areas, social movements, many of which have a long history, challenge established hierarchies of knowledge and seek to make space for the expertise of actors whose knowledge has been marginalized. There is also contestation within and between these movements about what counts as evidence. These debates, in turn, may produce new knowledge hierarchies, or see medical evidence mobilized in new ways. Studying how these contestations and movements are developing is essential for understanding the extent to which the dominance of medicine is challenged or reinforced.

STS approaches and methodologies are well-suited to study the complexity of conflicts around medical knowledge and evidence, especially how these contestations manifest themselves and are produced through both clinical practices and wider societal discourses. We welcome empirical papers that explore practices of contestations of biomedical knowledge and formal expertise as well as conceptual contributions that discuss the effects of these contestations for health care governance.

Convenors:

Pia Vuolanto (Tampere University, Finland)
Caragh Brosnan (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Katharina T. Paul (University of Vienna, Austria)
Jenny-Ann Danell (Umea University, Sweden)
TASA Gift Memberships
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. 
Profile Steps 2
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.
 
For assistance with updating your Member Profile on TASA web please see the video tutorial: Updating your Member Profile
 
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 portfoliosas well as documents and policies, including the ConstitutionValues StatementStatement on Academic FreedomCode of Conduct, Grievance Procedures Safe & Inclusive EventsSustainable Events and TASA History
 
Accessing Online Materials & Resources
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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. 

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