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Meeting ID: 859 0920 7579 Passcode: 884831
Also, TASA is now on Bluesky, you can find us at @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social. This is a new account and we aim to build up the feed over time. If you are on social media, we invite you to follow us. | | Join us on Thursday 21st March, for our TASA Thursday session presented by fellow member, and our 2023 Early Career Research Best Paper Prize winner, Lutfun Nahar Lata. Lata will be presenting on The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 21st March
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
Meeting ID: 859 0920 7579 Passcode: 884831 |  | | We are pleased to announce our April TASA Thursdays presented by fellow member Stephanie Vasil. Stephanie will be presenting on Migration, precarity and family violence: Examining women's experiences in Australia.
Drawing on interviews with 18 victim-survivors with insecure migration status, and 23 professional stakeholders, this presentation examines precarity in relation to migrant women’s lives in Australia, focusing on the ways that their specific circumstances contribute to and are compounded by the experience of family violence (FV).
In doing so, it considers how precarity functions as a structural condition that has implications in terms of various forms or patterns of inequality that can heighten women’s vulnerability to FV and undermine their efforts to ensure their safety and survival.
The presentation draws from a qualitative study that sought to contribute to a growing body of feminist scholarship that considers how structural inequalities related to the status of non-citizenship impact the dynamics of FV and help-seeking options for migrant women in Western multicultural societies.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 18th April 2024
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEST)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
| The next TASA Book Club session will be on Thursday 28th March at 7pm (AEDT).
We invite you to join us as we explore this month's book: Open Minds: Academic freedom and freedom of speech in Australia by Carolyn Evans and Adrienne Stone, 2021, La Trobe University Press (Available on Kindle)
Event Details
Date: Thursday 28th March
Time: 7pm AEDT
Format: Zoom (login details will be provided upon registration)
Cost: Free
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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.
Note, this event is for TASA members only so you will need to login to TASAweb to register.
| Chesters, J. (Ed.) (2024) Research Handbook on Transitions into Adulthood. Edward Elgar. |  | This prescient Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges that young people from across the globe face as they navigate the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
An international collective of expert scholars takes stock of the changing social, political, and economic contexts that have exacerbated the difficulties experienced by young people as they leave education and embark on their journey to financial and emotional independence. Exploring both the Global North and South, chapters examine the manifold complexities of the transition to adulthood, covering youth policies and participation, mobility and belonging, life course and intergenerational relations, gendered transitions, youth precariousness and marginalisation, youth cultures, and health and wellbeing. The Research Handbook ultimately concludes that linear pathways from full-time education to full-time employment have become increasingly rare as rapidly evolving educational and labour market contexts continue to disrupt traditional views of adulthood. Read on...
| | | The nomination deadline for the below 2024 TASA Awards is July 17th:
Note, applications for TASA2024 bursaries will open on Monday July 22nd and close on Monday August 19th.
| Postdoctoral Fellow
University of New South Wales
As the Research Fellow, working with fellow member Emma Kirby, you will primarily work with academic and partner investigators on a project funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Project Grant “When caring ends”
Application deadline: March 31st. Read on...
Assistant or Associate Professor
Hong Kong Shue Yan University, sociology department
Starting in September
Applications will remain open until the position is filled. Read on...
Visiting Professor
Seoul National University
Commencement of position: January – February 2025
| 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
Swinburne University
A candidate is sought with an interest in exploring how housing instability and homelessness are drivers of youth justice involvement, and how housing might be an effective intervention for desistance from crime. While the candidate will be given the opportunity to develop their own research topic and proposal, it is expected that they will broadly align with the project: A place to call home: developing a sustainable housing intervention model for homeless young people involved with the justice system, led by Professor Wendy Stone and fellow member Dr Joel McGregor.
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...
| | 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 | Book Discussion - Meet the Author/s | Harmony Week 2024: Author Talk - Dr. Andrew Jakubowicz in conversation with Craig Foster AM
TOMORROW March 22nd, 10:30am - 12pm, AEDT, Maroubra, NSW
Join fellow member Andrew Jakubowicz in conversation with Craig Foster AM to discuss his newly released book 'Multicultural Arc: Making Multicultural Australia: Past, Present and Future'. 'Multicultural Arc' describes and analyses a half-century of multicultural action and policy in Australia.
For details, read on...
A Brill Meet the Authors virtual seminar on What are Social Imaginaries?
Johann Arnason (Latrobe University) and Suzi Adams (Flinders University). The seminar will be chaired by Paul Blokker (University of Bologna) and feature Peter Wagner (University of Barcelona) as discussant.
26th March Melbourne: 2am AEDT. Join via Teams.
| Call for Submissions - Journals
| 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....
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...
| Second World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
June 19-22, 2024 Strumica, North Macedonia (Hotel Sirius)
Abstract submission deadline: April 15th. Read on...
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
Strumica, North Macedonia from June 19 to 22
Abstract submission deadline: April 15th. Read on...
| WA Migration and Mobilities Update conference
Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley campus, Perth WA.
Wednesday 25 September
Full program and registration details to follow.
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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