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Are you looking for a mentor, or know of another member who is? In case you are not aware, TASA's Member Directory has a search function for members who have indicated they are available to mentor. There is also an option for you to filter the search by state/territory, if relevant. For assistance, contact Sally in TASA Admin.
This is our final reminder about nominations for our two book awards closing this Sunday March 3rd. If this is news to you, and you have a book you would like to nominate, please complete the nomination form by March 3rd and have your publisher supply us with an eBook asap, on the understanding that 6 hard copies of your book will follow soon. For details, see further down this newsletter.
|  | TASA Book Club shall be taking place online TONIGHT 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: TONIGHT Thursday 29th February
Time: 6pm - 7pm AEDT
Format: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82539938893?pwd=aGJWemhJOXZPeWlHazJTMjJ5WUtzQT09
Meeting ID: 825 3993 8893 Passcode: 591017
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. | Join us on Thursday 21st March 2024, for this month's TASA Thursday session which will be presented by guest speaker, fellow member and our 2023 Early Career Research Best Paper Prize winner, Lutfun Nahar Lata. This session is titled "The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka."
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 21st March 2024
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
REGISTER HERE
| | 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
Michelle, the convener of the Critical Disability Studies thematic group is looking for a fellow member to co-convene the group with her. If you can assist, please contact Sally in TASA Admin.
As mentioned previously, groups without conveners will need to be disbanded. If you have an interest in convening either the Cultural Sociology or the Risk Societies 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 Genders and Sexualities Thematic Group; Donna Bridges, Ruby Grant and Yang Zhao:
|  | | Dr Donna Bridges is a Senior lecturer in sociology based on Bathurst campus where she teaches a range of sociology subjects. Donna is a gender and work theorist and a feminist, qualitative researcher. Her work focuses on gender norms in society, gender constructions, workplace inequality, discrimination and harassment. She has completed a PhD about women’s roles in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) – specifically in the areas of the combat arms and United Nations peacekeeping. During the PhD she undertook extensive interview research with women across the ADF. Her military research concentrates on the traditional roles of both genders within organisational cultures exploring organisational change as well as barriers to change. Read on... |  | | Dr Ruby Grant (She/Her) is a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University. Ruby is a feminist sociologist with expertise in LGBTQ health and queer geographies. She is the leading scholar of Tasmanian LGBTQ community wellbeing, with her work providing key insights into the role of place in shaping LGBTQ identity, health, belonging and inclusion in regional and rural areas. Ruby currently leads QSOX: Queer Women’s Substance Use Over Time, a longitudinal qualitative project exploring LBQ women’s use of alcohol and nicotine. As an applied sociologist, Ruby is passionate about translating research into tangible outcomes to improve policy, service provision, and community development. | | |
| Yang Zhao is a social anthropologist and currently works as Research Fellow in Social Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research over the past ten years has delved deeply into the intersections of gender, religion, and sexual health in Central Asia and China. His work on gender and masculinity has been featured in journals such as International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Gender and Education and NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. Additionally, Yang has co-edited a book ‘Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities’ by Routledge. | | | | We're also introducing you to the new convener of the Critical Disability Studies Thematic Group; Michelle King (who, as mentioned above, is looking for a co-convener): |  | | Research Fellow (Queensland Aphasia Research Centre, University of Queensland & STARS) Dr Michelle King is a sociologist, lawyer, and consumer advocate. Michelle’s research focuses on the transition to adulthood experiences of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, especially with government systems and decision-making. She explores decision-making in practice in a range of areas, including the NDIS, health and aged care, banking and finance, income support, and voting. She has lived experience with complex disability as a parent and supporter of her 24-year-old daughter, Daelle, who has profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Michelle also serves in a range of roles as an advocate and consumer, including as board chair of the national research alliance, Child Unlimited, co-chair of the Consumer Panel for Australia's National Living Evidence Taskforce (producing our national clinical guidelines for Covid-19), and on Queensland Health's Adolescent and Young Adult SubNetwork. | | | | To help us introduce you to all of our groups in a timely manner, we're also introducing you to the new conveners of the Families and Relationships Thematic Group; Giselle Newton, Cheng Yen Loo & Cal Volks: |  | | Dr Giselle Newton (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Cultures and Societies Hub, and Centre for Policy Futures in the Faculty of Humanities Arts Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. Giselle also holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW, Sydney. Giselle is a digital health sociologist whose research is focused on understanding how reproductive and genetic technologies (re)shape personal and familial relationships. In her work, Giselle also considers how people with lived experience participate and position themselves in research, policy reform, and development of support and services. Giselle is interested in digital, qualitative and creative research methods and ethics, and has led research training on these topics. |  | | Dr Cheng Yen Loo is a sociologist and cultural anthropologist in the field of family studies, aged care, migration, and cultural studies. Based in Western Australia, Cheng Yen is a research fellow that splits her time across two institutions, being the SAGE Lab at Edith Cowan University and the WA Centre for Health and Ageing at the University of Western Australia. Cheng Yen conducts research on social ageing and caregiver wellbeing with a special focus on culturally and linguistically diverse families. | | |
| Cal Volks is a Social Science researcher in Naarm, Australia specialising in the psychosocial and regulatory implications of assisted reproduction for donors, recipientsand donor conceived children. Cal is the RA on an ARC project researching Australian recipients of oocyte donation in Southern Africa led by Prof. Andrea Whittaker (Social Sciences, Monash University). Cal is completing an Australian Research Council funded PhD under the supervision of Prof. Fiona Kelly (Law, La Trobe University) and Prof. Sonja Giedeke (Psychology, Auckland University of Technology). The PhD involves the investigation of experiences of Australian (clinic, known and online) egg and sperm donors who have had early contact (under the age of 18) with the donor conceived children. | | | 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.
Nomination deadline: This Sunday 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: This Sunday 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... | 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.
| | | New: PhD Scholarship - Music making in Australia
Applications are invited for enrolment in a scholarship-supported doctoral study associated with an Australian Research Council Discovery project that explores digital music making in regional Australia. The PhD project topic is deliberately open to allow candidates to develop their own specific ideas and interests drawing on their existing skills and experience, subject to negotiation with supervisors. However, in order to align with the overall project, topics that focus on areas such as the following are particularly welcome:
• Music making in regional Australia
• The intersections of grassroots music making and government policy and infrastructure in urban or regional settings
• Musicians’ utilisation of ‘maker spaces’
• Social inequalities in digital music making.
The successful applicant will supervised by three of the Chief Investigators on the ARC project (all TASA members), Associate Professor Catherine Strong (RMIT), Professor Andy Bennett (Griffith) and Dr Ben Green (Griffith).
Please contact Catherine Strong for more information (catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au)
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.
Application deadline: TODAY February 29th. Read on...
| | 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: special issue focussed on Culturally Responsive Qualitative Health Research
Qualitative Health Research
Anticipated publication of Special Issue: March 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 1. Read on....
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.
| 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
Abstract submission deadline: TOMORROW March 1. Read on...
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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