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2024 is an Executive election year for TASA. Nominations won't open until early July but we're giving you the heads up so that you can take some time to consider being a part of the committee. It's a great opportunity to play a role in shaping the direction of the association. Over the next few months, feel free to reach out to current and past Executive members to find out about their Executive experiences. You can also contact Sally in TASA Admin.
As a reminder, if you haven't already, we ask that you complete the membership biennial survey via the orange link below:
Also, if you had a book published in 2022 or 2023 (as per the front matter of the book), we encourage you to nominate for the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize (A biennial prize for the best authored book in Australian Sociology) or the Raewyn Connell Prize (a biennial prize for the best first book by an author in Australian Sociology). The nomination deadline for both book awards is March 3rd.
| We extend our warm congratulations to Jacqueline Price who has been nominated as the top Sociology Honours student for 2023 at the University of New South Wales.
In case you are not aware, the 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...
| | Thematic Group Conveners: 2024/2025 | This week we are introducing you to the returning (Cat and Catherine) and new (Leah) conveners for the Migration, Ethnicity & Multiculturalism Thematic Group; Cat Stevens, Catherine Martin & Leah William:
|  | | Dr Stevens has expertise in the sociology and anthropology of ageing and aged care, migration and ethnicity, and in Chinese studies. Her current research, supported by the Forrest Research Foundation, addresses some of critical challenges faced by the Australian aged care sector.
Cat is working with Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow Loretta Baldassar in developing a new research Lab in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University (ECU.) This new team is leading research in social care across the life-course, contributing social science perspectives and methodologies to the creative and caring professions. This approach is targeted at the development of a social supports category in the aged care sector to facilitate collaborative communities of care that extend people’s support networks at every age, with a particular focus on:
- Social and Cultural Care
- Diverse and Migrant Communities
- Music and Arts Engagement, and
- Digital Ageing and Inclusion
Prior to joining ECU, Cat was Manager of Research Engagement with the Social Care and Ageing (SAGE) Living Lab at UWA . She has significant experience in applied social research through collaborations, evaluations and consultancies with government and NFP sector partners. |  | | Originally from the UK, I have a BA in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths College, an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS, and a PhD in Sociology. I have lectured and taught in Anthropology and Sociology at UWA, and in Asian Studies at Murdoch University. I currently lecture at the McCusker Centre for Citizenship (UWA), educating students about social need, social justice, and civic participation. I also coordinate all McCusker Centre academic units (SVLG1002 McCusker Centre for Citizenship Internship, SVLG1006 Making a Difference: Civic participation and Social Change, SVLG3008 Wicked Problems). I have presented at conferences in Australia, Denmark, UK and Canada and have published in several academic journals. My most recent paper on immigrant otherness and ethno-nationalism was published in Ethnic and Racial Studies and was awarded the ISA RC05 Best HDR/ECR paper award. I have also contributed to research on the Australian national curriculum and national identity, and I am currently researching the intersections between teamwork, critical consciousness and social responsibility. I am a co-convenor of the Sociology out West group. My interests centre on the construction of race (both racial Others and whiteness), immigration, press, critical discourse analysis and national identity. | | |
 | Leah Williams Veazey is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at the University of Sydney. Her research uses qualitative methods, most commonly in-depth interviews, to explore contemporary social experiences, with a focus on the intersections of health, migration and care.
Leah’s first book, Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age: Emotion and Belonging in Migrant Maternal Online Communities, was published by Routledge (2021). In 2022, it was awarded the TASA Raewyn Connell Prize for Best First Book by an Author in Australian Sociology.
Since receiving her PhD in Sociology from The University of Sydney in 2019, Leah has worked on a series of projects funded by the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. These projects have explored Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic; patient and carers’ perspectives on innovative cancer treatments; and contemporary experiences of death, dying and bereavement in Australia.
Drawing together her interests in the fields of migration, health and care, Leah’s DECRA Fellowship will explore how healthcare workers’ family relationships and networks of care affect their mobility decisions and trajectories, their experiences of the workplace and plans for the future.
| | | | Thematic Groups - Call for New Conveners
| The number of thematic groups requiring conveners has reduced but we still have several groups without conveners for the 2024/2025 term. If you have an interest in any of the areas below, and you would like to find out more about convening one of the groups, please contact Tom Barnes and/or Sally in TASA Admin.
- Applied Sociology
- Crime & Governance
- Cultural Sociology
- Risk Societies
- Rural Sociology
- Social Theory
- Sociology & Animals
- Sociology of Education
| | Book put forward by a TASA member for the first session: Loïc Wacquant's The invention of the 'underclass': a study in the politics of knowledge, Cambridge, Polity 2022 (can be purchased as an ebook for Kindle etc)
Our very first TASA Book Club session shall be taking place online on Thursday February 29th at 6pm (AEDT). Watch this space for the zoom link.
| Aggleton, P., Cover, R., Logie, C.H., Newman, C.E., Parker, R. (2023) Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights. Routledge. 20% discount code until early March via this flyer.
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Aggleton, P, Sciortino, R., Newman, C.E. (2023) Engaging with Omission. Promoting concern for gender and sexuality minorities in SDG 5 and beyond. Editors: Saroj Pachauri, Ravi K. Verma. Transforming Unequal Gender Relations: An Intersectional Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities (pp 315-326). Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-4086-8_20
Cover, R. and Newman, C.E. (2023) Gender and sexuality identities in social media and everyday life: The expansion and redefinition of non-binary gender and bisexuality. In Eds Aggleton, P., Cover, R., Logie, C.H., Newman, C.E., Parker, R. Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights. Pp 111-119. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Sexuality-Gender-Health-and-Rights/Aggleton-Cover-Lo
Aggleton, P., Cover, R., Logie, C.H., Newman, C.E., Parker, R. (2023) Sexuality, gender, health and rights: An introduction. In Eds Aggleton, P., Cover, R., Logie, C.H., Newman, C.E., Parker, R. Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights. Pp 1-8. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Sexuality-Gender-Health-and-Rights/Aggleton-Cover-Lo | Zhao, Yang (2024). TikTok and Researcher Positionality: Considering the Methodological and Ethical Implications of an Experimental Digital Ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231221374 [OPEN ACCESS]
Nguyen-Trung, K., Uekusa, S. & Matthewman, S. Locked into a permanent position of vulnerability? Farmers’ trust and social capital with the government from Critical Disaster Studies perspectives. Nat Hazards (2024). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-023-06383-2 [OPEN ACCESS]
Ummer-Christian Rahila, Widdicombe Dallas, Raichur Anil, Couch Danielle (2024) Aboriginal Health Practitioners obtaining, possessing and administering fluoride varnish: self-determination driven regulation amendment for integrated oral health care for Aboriginal children. Australian Journal of Primary Health 30, PY23201. https://doi.org/10.1071/PY23201
Newman, Christy E, Smith, Anthony K J, Harvey, Shannon, Duck-Chong, Elizabeth (2023) Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations. Editorial Introduction to Special Collection of Culture, Health & Sexuality. 25(12), 1758-1761. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2277606 [OPEN ACCESS]
Martin, K., Bryant, J., Beetson, K., Wilms, J., Briggs, T., Treloar, C. & Newman, C. (2023) Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia. Journal of Youth Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2225422 [OPEN ACCESS]
Robinson, S., Jan, I., Fisher, K. R., Reedy, K., Newman, C., Purcal, C., Giuntoli, G., Byrne, S., Nankivell, R., Burner, G., Touzeau, R., Adam, T., & Armstrong, P. (2023). How do self-advocates use community development to change attitudes to disability? British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12549 [OPEN ACCESS]
Bryant J, Bolt R , Martin K, Beadman M, Doyle M, Treloar C, Bell S, Murphy D, Newman C, Browne A, Aggleton P, Beetson K, Brooks M, Wilms J, Leece B, Stanbury L, Botfield J, Davis B, Graham S (2023). Yarning as a method for building sexual wellbeing for urban Aboriginal young peoples. Culture, Health and Sexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2258948 [OPEN ACCESS]
| 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: Talent Register
The Australian Institute of Family Studies has created a temporary register to help quickly fill positions that come up. For details, including how to add yourself to the register, please read on...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Research
University of Tasmania
Application deadline: Friday 2 February. Read on....
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, International Politics and Policy
James Cook University
Full Time - Continuing
The position will only remain open until filled.
Lecturer, Anthropology
James Cook University
Full Time - Continuing
The position will only remain open until filled.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow in Sociology
University of Sydney
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in epidemiology/quantitative social science/demography
University of Sydney
| 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.
| | | 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.
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.
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 | New: Aging Out of Out-of-Home Care
Collected Edition and Symposium
Editors: fellow members Joel McGregor and Ben Lohmeyer as well as Wendy Stone
The editors are seeking a diverse range of studies, including international perspectives, about young people who have reached the designated age at which the care of the state or child welfare system will cease. They are interested in empirical research that investigates both transition planning and the implications of being aged out of the system. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are welcome, however, they will prioritise research underpinned by emancipatory epistemological principles, and involve co-design or participatory practices in the design and analysis of data. Studies that expand theoretical understandings on aging out of out-of-home care are encouraged.
Chapter proposals, of a maximum of 250 words, that showcase the work of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates, are due by March 31. Read on...
| Call for Research Participants | New: Influence of results on publication in literature
A Cardiff University PhD student is seeking participants for 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.
| Future of Work in the Global South and Global North
2-3 May, 2024, The University of Melbourne
Keynote speakers: Professor Niels van Doorn (University of Amsterdam), Associate Professor Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano (De La Salle University) and Dr Katie Wells (Georgetown University)
This two-day symposium aims to bring together researchers from across the social sciences–sociology, geography, work and organisational studies, industrial relations, cultural studies and beyond to discuss the variegated nature of digital labour platforms (Uber, Gojek, Didi, Deliveroo, Menulog, Hungry Panda, Mable, Hire Up etc.) and their operations in the Global South and Global North countries.
Abstract submission deadline: 10 March. Read on...
Taylor Swift Fanposium
Panellists include fellow member Catherine Strong
Sunday 11th February, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm AEDT, Melbourne
The event is free
| Free, online, Graduate Research Program
| Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Program in Indigenous Settler Relations
Applications are now open for the 2024 Graduate Research Program. The Program is available to graduate researchers in any faculty at any university undertaking graduate research related to the emerging field of Indigenous settler relations in Australia and the world.
Find out more here. Apply here. Enquiries: aust-centre@unimelb.edu.au
Applications close: Monday 12 February | The Kohli Prize for Sociology
The Kohli Prize for Sociology honors exceptional achievement in and contributions to the field and profession of sociology. The Kohli Prize is rewarded with 50.000 EUR. It is awarded by an international Selection Committee composed of the Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees and two additional members from other world regions.
| World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
Strumica, North Macedonia from June 19 to 22
Abstract submission deadline: April 15th. Read on...
| Special Issue - Call for Papers
| Blood Ties and Politics: The Influence of Political Polarization upon Family Life
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research Special Issue
Over recent years, the nature of politics in nations around the globe has become increasingly heated and polarized, with much of this change being attributed to a variety of sources, including news outlets, online websites, social media, and various forms of communication technology. However, discussions about politics, along with debates and arguments, often occur with the familial context.
Deadline for initial submissions: April 15. Read on...
| 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.
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