Dear ~~first_name~~,
If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays presented by fellow member Indigo Willing on Skate Myth Busting - Shredding Stereotypes with Sociology, you can catch up with the recording here.
Eight members have authored articles published in The Conversation in the last week. You can access their articles via the News & Analysis section of this newsletter.
|  | | TASA Book Club shall be taking place online next Thursday 29th February 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 email your ideas to Aisling Bailey, our Equity & Inclusion Portfolio Leader, at aabailey@swin.edu.au.
We hope you can join us for next week's inaugural book club session.
| | Thematic Groups - Call for New Conveners
| We are thrilled to report that we are now down to 2 thematic groups, only, that need conveners. They are:
- Cultural Sociology
- Risk Societies
As mentioned previously, these groups will fold if we can't find conveners for them soon. If you have an interest in convening either group, 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.
| | Thematic Group Conveners: 2024/2025 | This week we are introducing you to the new conveners for the Sociology of Sport & Leisure Thematic Group; Indigo Willing, Richard Pringle and Emma Phillips:
|  | | Indigo Willing was awarded a PhD in sociology from The University of Queensland and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. In 2024, Indigo will begin a James Social Science Fellowship at The University of Sydney at The Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC). She is also a former Rockefeller Fellow, UMASS, Boston, recipient of a Yale University SEAS conference travel grant, an Australian Academy of the Humanities Traveling Fellow scholarship recipient, and a Research Fellow for an Australian Research Council Discovery Project. Indigo has co-founded various community projects that have received international recognition, grants, and awards including with the Vietnamese diaspora and most recently, for inclusive projects in skateboarding, subcultures, and creative sports. As a lecturer, she teaches in the areas of sociology, creative industries, and qualitative research methods.
As mentioned at the top of this newsletter, Indigo presented on skating for last week's TASA Thursdays. The recording is available here.
|  | Richard Pringle is a Professor of Sport, Health and Physical Education in the School of Curriculum, Teaching and Inclusive and Education. My research predominantly focuses on social in/justices as related to genders, ethnicites and sexualities within the contexts of sport, health and schooling. I have a particular interest in challenging problematic behaviours in hypermasculine settings, such as in high speed collision sports (e.g. rugby union) and in more recent years, the mining industry. I am particularly interested in how people are shaped by the workings of power and how, in turn, power relations can be shaped by people. Through examining how power ‘works’, I am hopeful that we can make a positive difference in people’s lives.
Richard has previously worked at the University of Auckland, the University of Waikato and Auckland University of Technology. In a previous life he taught health and physical education and economics at secondary schools.
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| Emma Phillips is a photographer and researcher/lecturer in Visual Communication with the University of Canberra. Her work is focused on the ways that image-making might be informed by classist, sexist and gendered assumptions and uses photographic methodologies which foreground the representational experiences of women and non-binary people. Emma has twelve years professional photography experience in Australian media, design and advertising and eight years experience teaching in photography and visual communications programs across Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. She recently completed her PhD on sexy-selfies and class and has been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize and the Olive Cotton Award. Emma is currently researching the cultures of online self-representation of elite female and non-binary athletes.
| | | | We're also introducing you to the new conveners of the Sociology & Animals Thematic Group; Ann Lawless and Penelope Bergen: |  | Dr Penelope Bergen is a lecturer and researcher at the School of Business, University of New South Wales Canberra and a member of the UNSW Canberra Public Service Research Group. She has a background in media where she combined her interests in sociology and animals making a 7-part radio series for the Australian Broadcast Corporation called Camp Dog Tails. She worked for ABC rural for several years with a focus on invasive species including feral animals, and the cattle industry in Central Australia and South Australia.
Dr Bergen completed a PhD in applied sociology with Charles Darwin University’s Northern Institute and the Australian National University in 2020. Her focus is the relationship between human and organisational systems.
On completing her PhD in 2020, Dr Bergen worked in health policy and the health consumer research space, with a particular focus on rural, regional and remote access. She completed major research reports for the Australian Consumers Health Forum, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Primary Health Networks’ national research into health and medicines literacy, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Dr Bergen also has a background in human rights advocacy with Amnesty International’s secretariat in the Netherlands, and classical music, having worked as an orchestral and chamber musician for many years.
|  | Dr Ann Lawless is a zesty nerd developing a sociology of joy and has a myriad of interests and passions. She celebrates the lives of fauna and flora, with a passion for parrots, birds and Australian fauna, and publishes her photography on social media as a form of animal activism in the belief that “what we love, we protect”; and that people can be mobilised to social change and solidarity through their joy, compassion and potential for kindness. She also likes to watch clouds, the Moon and has a passion for astronomy (from a cosy armchair).
She is a health activist and does work at international, national, local and neighbourhood levels. She is co-chair of a Consumer Reference Group in Health Communication at ANU.
She is an experienced journal editor and associate editor on journals such as JCEPS and AJAL. She is a member of the South Australian Women’s Honour Roll for her activism. Her PhD thesis drew on the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas and presented its application to a sociology of activism and education. She has over 60 publications. Her favourite beverages are tea and coffee, best served with a ginger biscuit, carrot cake or yummy slice.
She has been an active member of TASA for a long time, and in the past has been a Thematic Group Convenor for Sociology and Activism; Sociology and Health; and Social Stratification
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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... | Weng, E., Shorter, R. (2024). Decolonial Perspectives on Dominant Constructions of “Religion”. In: Ravulo, J., Olcoń, K., Dune, T., Workman, A., Liamputtong, P. (eds) Handbook of Critical Whiteness. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1612-0_99-1
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Mansouri, F., Vergani, M., & Weng, E. (2024). Parallel lives or active citizens? Examining the interplay between multicultural service provision and civic engagement in Australia. Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833231219033 [OPEN ACCESS]
| New: Research Fellow - Histories of Education and Race in Australia
University of Melbourne
Application deadline: March 5. 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.
| | | 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
| 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: Second World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
June 19-22, 2024 Strumica, North Macedonia (Hotel Sirius)
Abstract submission deadline: April 15th. Read on...
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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