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Our first TASA Thursdays for 2024 kicks off today at 12:30pm AEDT with fellow member Indigo Willing speaking about "Skate Myth Busting - Shredding Stereotypes with Sociology." (See below for details.) We hope you can make it along.
Our inaugural Book Club session is just around the corner. We hope you can join us for that event too, on Thursday 29th February at 6pm (AEDT). The book being discussed is, 'The invention of the 'underclass': a study in the politics of knowledge, Cambridge, Polity 2022 authored by Loïc Wacquant.' See this newsletter for details.
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We invite you to join us TODAY Thursday 15th February, for the first TASA Thursday session of the year. Presented by guest speaker, and fellow member, Indigo Willing, this session is titled. "Skate Myth Busting - Shredding Stereotypes with Sociology."
Skateboarding is rapidly transforming, both as a subculture and now a high-performance sport that includes being in the Olympics. Notably, there is an increase in the participation of women and non-binary skaters. Accompanying these transformations is also a rise in skaters from various backgrounds who promote and push for social change.
This session aims to present a fun, express-lane exploration of stereotypes in skating and research papers by the presenter that one by one 'shred' them by highlighting key figures, approaches, and initiatives for change. The presentation concludes by introducing a new project 'Skate, Create, Educate and Re-generate' that explores where skating and creative sports are heading now, and how sociologists can become involved in leading these conversations.
Event Details:
| | Honours/Masters Student Award
| We extend our warm congratulations to Caitlin Gordon-King who has been nominated by fellow member Peter Walters as the top Sociology honours student at the University of Queensland for 2023. As mentioned last week, among other benefits, each nominated student receives a complimentary 12 month membership to TASA. Full details of the award, including the nomination form, can be accessed here. We strongly encourage you to either nominate your top student or remind/make aware, about the award, the person responsible at your university (if relevant).
| | Thematic Group Conveners: 2024/2025 | This week we are introducing you to the conveners for the Sociology of Work, Labour and Economy Thematic Group. Sheree Gregory & Yinghua are returning for a second term and will be joined by Lutfun Nahar Lata:
|  | | Dr Sheree Gregory is a Senior Lecturer in the Human Resources and Management program of the School of Business, and member of the Institute for Culture & Society at Western Sydney University. Sheree completed an Australian Research Council Linkage Project at Swinburne University where she was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow partnered with industry in the development of the Global Family Business Succession Planning Survey conducted across 56 countries and translated into nine languages. Sheree studied for her honours degree in Newcastle and PhD in Melbourne. Her ongoing research is concerned with women's working lives, issues surrounding contemporary work/family life in Australia, gender equality and diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship (women entrepreneurship, family firm succession planning uncertainty), HR and creative industries. She has produced two edited books (with co-authors) and published in top-tier journals such as Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice. Sheree was formally recognised with a Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Award (with team members), a Teaching Excellence Award in Management, and the Best Academic Paper Award (with co-authors) in entrepreneurship. She was recently Academic Course Advisor.
|  | Dr Yinghua Yu (PhD) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University. Her doctoral studies focus on exploring the experiences of New Chinese professional women in Australia, specifically regarding their careers, workplace experiences, and work-life balance.
Yinghua has actively contributed to several ARC projects at ICS and has published papers in reputable journals such as Culture Unbound and the Journal of Intercultural Studies. Additionally, she has co-authored policy reports related to geopolitics and automation.
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 | | Dr Lutfun Nahar Lata is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences. Lutfun's primary research area focuses on the Sociology of work and employment including the gig economy and the future of work. She has written about gig economy, urban marginality, poverty governance, housing and place-based disadvantage. She is a mixed-methods researcher with extensive experience in conducting and publishing qualitative, quantitative and digital research and working with multidisciplinary teams that include stakeholders from academia, industry and local and central governments. Lutfun is the author of Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh (Routledge 2023). Her research has been published in a number of high-ranking international journals such as Current Sociology, The Sociological Review, Sociology Compass, Gender, Work & Organization, Cities, Geographical Research, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Government Information Quarterly. Lutfun is currently on the Editorial Boards of Gender, Work & Organizations and Journal of Contemporary Asia, and a Newsletter Editor of the Research Committee on Social Transformations and Sociology of Development (RC09). | | | | Thematic Groups - Call for New Conveners
| We are very happy to report that we have secured some more conveners since last week's newsletter. We are now down to 3 thematic groups needing conveners. As a reminder, these groups will fold if we can't find conveners for them. If you have an interest in convening but have doubts about your ability or your level of experience etc., or would like to know what is involved, please contact Tom Barnes and/or Sally in TASA Admin. The following three groups remain at risk of folding:
- Cultural Sociology
- Risk Societies
- Rural Sociology
| | Thematic Groups -LinkedIn
| Fellow member Sam Whiting is organising a joint meet-up for Sociology of Youth and Sociology of Music thematic group members and prospective members in Adelaide in mid-February. The social catchup will be at 5pm, TODAY February 15th at Nearly Bar (179 Hindley Street, Adelaide).
Please get in touch with Sam at sam.whiting@unisa.edu.au to let him know if you can make it.
| As previously mentioned, nominations for both 2024 book awards close on March 3rd. Note, it can take some time to get the books shipped from publishers so, if you are going to nominate, we encourage you to get on to this task now!
The nomination deadline for other 2024 TASA Awards is July 17th:
Note, applications for TASA2024 bursaries will open on Monday July 22nd and close on Monday August 19th.
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... | | TASA Book Club shall be taking place online on Thursday 29th February 2024 at 6pm (AEDT)
We invite you to join us as we explore this month's book: The invention of the 'underclass': a study in the politics of knowledge, Cambridge, Polity 2022 authored by Loïc Wacquant.
Event Details
Date: Thursday 29th February
Time: 6pm - 7pm AEDT
Format: Zoom meeting - please note, login details will be provided to you upon registration to this event
Cost: Free
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
We also welcome book nominations that you believe fellow TASA members would enjoy exploring. Each month 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.
If you have book suggestion that you would like to share, please send your ideas to Aisling aabailey@swin.edu.au.
We hope you can join us and look forward to seeing you soon.
| 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.
| | | PhD Scholarship
University of Melbourne
Supervisor: fellow member Ash Barnwell
The proposed PhD project offers an original sociological study about how secrets and practices of secret-keeping around sexual lives have changed over time in Australian society.
For the full details, and to submit your expression of interest, read on...
Future-proofing Australia's Care Economy (Healthcare students, migration, work and care)
PhD Scholarship
Fellow member Leah Williams Veazey, ARC DECRA Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at The University of Sydney, is offering a Postgraduate Scholarship for a PhD student to conduct research with healthcare students about migration, work and care.
| | 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 | Call for Submissions - Journals
| New: European Review of Applied Sociology
Issue no. 28/2024
Deadline for submissions: March 15, here.
Criminology in Post-Violence Transitions: Exploring the Intersections between Human Rights, Grassroots Activism, Transitional Justice, Memory, and Criminology
International Journal for Crime, Justice, and Social Democracy
Deadline for initial submissions: April 1st. Read on...
Blood Ties and Politics: The Influence of Political Polarization upon Family Life
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research Special Issue
Deadline for initial submissions: April 15. Read on...
| Aging Out of Out-of-Home Care
Collected Edition and Symposium
Editors: fellow members Joel McGregor and Ben Lohmeyer as well as Wendy Stone
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...
| Future of Work in the Global South and Global North
2-3 May, 2024, The University of Melbourne
Abstract submission deadline: 10 March. Read on...
| 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.
| New: Social Boundaries of Work. Critical Labour Studies in the Times of a Polycrisis
Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław 16-18 October 2024
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
Strumica, North Macedonia from June 19 to 22
Abstract submission deadline: April 15th. 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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