Dear ~~first_name~~,
This is the final call for TASA2024 abstracts. If you would like to be a part of TASA2024, and you haven't submitted your abstract yet, please do so by this coming Monday June 17th. For conference updates, please visit TASAweb here. If you have any event related questions, please email Penny (events@tasa.org.au).
|  | The annual TASA Career Development Grant seeks to support the career development activities of TASA members where these activities are not covered by other funding. The Grant is targeted at TASA members who have limited or no access to funding for career development activities. This year's round closes in a few weeks on June 30th.
Eligible career development opportunities include but are not limited to:
- research related cost (e.g. transcription, use of interpreters, participant reimbursement, employment of a research assistant);
- professional editing;
- conference attendance (where this is not covered by other TASA bursaries); and
- career development activities associated with establishing / furthering a career outside of academia.
For the full details, visit TASAweb here.
| | The nomination deadline for the below listed 2024 TASA Awards is July 17th:
| | | | Join us next Thursday 20th June 2024, for our TASA Thursday session presented by fellow member Cathy Martin.
This session is titled,"Metaphors of Migration: A critical discourse analysis of the intersections between immigration, race, and the nation in Australian press reports."
| | | Join us on Thursday 18th July, for our TASA Thursday session: Social Class and Emotions in Australia.
This TASA Thursday session brings together three creative academics to speak about their applied research at the intersections of social class and emotion in diverse interest areas: gender, health, and youth.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 18th July 2024
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
Click here to read more
| | | Our next TASA Book Club session, hosted by fellow member Aisling Bailey (Equity & Inclusion portfolio leader), shall be taking place online on Thursday 27th June at 7pm (AEST)
We invite you to join us as we explore the book: Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr
Event Details
Date: Thursday 27th June 2024
Time: 7pm AEST
Format: Zoom meeting - please note login details will be provided to you upon registration to this event
Cost: Free
Click here to register
| Low, R.Y.S, Egan, S. & Bell, A., (Eds.). (2024). Using social theory in higher education, Palgrave Macmillan. OA
|  | This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an ongoing practice rather than a momentary disembodied encounter. In a structure that creates a space for relational dialogue, each chapter is followed by a response from another author, demonstrating the varied interpretive possibilities of social theory. Collectively the authors invite the reader to engage with them in questioning the usefulness of social theory in higher education teaching and research, in considering its possibilities and limits, and in experiencing the opportunity it offers to understand ourselves and our work differently. Written in a way that is scholarly yet accessible, the contributors explore how social theories can be used to think through issues that are emerging as key social and political concerns in higher education and beyond. Read on... | | | Burns, K., Egan, S., Hayes, H., & Rawlings, V. (2024) Teach Us Consent, digital feminist activism and the limits of school-based consent pedagogies, in R. Ryan-Flood & L. James-Hawkins (eds) Consent: Gender, power and subjectivity (pp. 265- 278) Routledge. Available on OA here.
Egan, S. (2024) Deploying Rose and Abi-Rached to ‘make sense’ of the rise of the ‘brain sciences’ in the field of violence against women, in R.Y.S Low, S. Egan & A. Bell (eds) Using social theory in higher education (pp. 77-90) Palgrave Macmillan. Available on OA here.
Low, R.Y.S. & Egan, S. (2024) Other people's ideas: An introduction to using social theory in higher education, in R.Y.S. Low, S. Egan, & A. Bell (eds ) Using social theory in higher education (pp. 1-24) Palgrave Macmillan. Available on OA here.
| We extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Bradley Burns on the publication of their first peer reviewed article:
Burns, B., Grace, R., Drake, G., & Avery, S. (2024). What are Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care telling us? A review of the child voice literature to understanding perspectives and experiences of the statutory care system. Children & Society, 00, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12880 [OPEN ACCESS]
Ralph, B., Duncan, T., Roberts, S., Savic, M., Robards, B., & Elliott, K. (2024). Drinking as affective labour: A discussion of Australian men working in hospitality and corporate workplaces. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13792 [OPEN ACCESS]
| Chandra, S., Wark, T., & Nguyen, L. (2024). Local LGBTQ+ Legacies: Uncovering Migrant and Multicultural Contributions to Sydney's LGBTQ+ History. https://doi.org/10.26183/31jt-fm14
| New: Call for proposals for Special Issue by Guest Editors - Issue 1, 2026
The Editors of HSR encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues exploring new ideas and the cutting edge of their field of expertise. We particularly welcome proposals for special issues with a focus on novel empirical domains, theoretical frameworks and/or methodologies in the sociology of health and illness (for example, the intersection of health sociology and climate change).
A call for guest editors for the 2026 issue is now open.
| | Generations and Housing Symposium
Note, this event is on the day before TASA 2024 starts
| | | | The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) Families and Relationships Thematic Convenors, Giselle Newton; Cheng Yen Loo and Cal Volks in association with the Centre for Digital Futures at the University of Queensland are hosting a Symposium exploring British Sociologist Jennifer Mason's theory of Affinities in research work.
Hybrid event
The day will include keynote provocations by fellow TASA members Rebecca Olson and Ashley Barnwell, as well as rapid papers from participants and affinities activities.
Some travel bursaries of up to $400 per person are available for Early Career Researchers
Expression of interest deadline: June 30. Read on...
| | | MusicLIVES Symposium, Brisbane, 26 June
The Sociology of Music thematic group invites TASA members to the MusicLIVES Symposium, at The Tivoli theatre in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, on Wednesday 26th June, 9am-5pm. MusicLIVES will showcase the work of SoM members and bring together academic, music industry and policy stakeholders, with focus sessions on ‘Sociology of music today’ and ‘Crisis and reinvention for live music in Australia’.
MusicLIVES is presented by the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, with support from TASA thematic group event funding. Further details and registration on the SoM webpage (expand Members’ News).
| | | | Call for Focus Group Participants
| As announced during TASA’s annual conferences in 2022 and 2023, The Australian Sociological Association is currently undertaking a research study to assess the state of sociology in Australia. This includes investigations into teaching, funding, university enrolments, employment outcomes, and research outputs with respect to Australian sociology.
We are currently seeking recent PhD graduates in sociology who would like the opportunity to discuss their experiences navigating the discipline in Australia as part of a focus group for this project.
Volunteers need to have graduated with their PhD from an Australian university within the last five years.
If you are interested in participating in a focus group, please email Dr Rhys Gower at r.gower@westernsydney.edu.au to discuss further details.
| New: Tutor
University of Melbourne
New: Research Analyst
Scanlon Foundation Research Institute
Analytical Lead: fellow member Rouven Link, Senior Research Analyst
| 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 (open call)
Melbourne Social Equity Institute
University of Melbourne
New: PhD Scholarship - Reproductive Justice
Melbourne Social Equity Institute
University of Melbourne
Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship
Queensland University of Technology
Established to honour Dr Clare Burton, this scholarship is open to students of all Australian universities undertaking master and doctoral research degrees.
PhD scholarship - Place, Identity, and Localism in Populist Politics
Australian Catholic University
Working with fellow member Rachel Busbridge
Applications close: 11:59pm (AEST), Friday 28 June. 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 | New: The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Four Paul Bourke Award recipients are selected each year by members of the Academy’s Panel Committees. The awards are presented to social science researchers within five years of receiving their doctorate (with allowances for career interruptions).
Nomination deadline: July 31. Read on...
| New: Workshop Program Grants
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
The Workshops Program offers Australian social scientists financial assistance to host multidisciplinary workshops which aim to advance research and policy agendas on nationally important issues. The Academy supports up to eight workshops each year with funding to a maximum of $9,000 (excl GST).
| Launch of ‘Introduction to Gender-Responsive Health’ e-learning Course
Online, Wednesday 19 June, 7 PM – 8 PM AEST
Organiser: Sienna Aguilar
MC: Sally Moyle, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU Gender Institute
National health peak body Australian Women’s Health Alliance is launching a new free e-learning course: ‘Introduction to Gender-Responsive Health’. Their online training modules will support workplaces, students and individuals across health and social fields, including community services and public policy. Academic staff, professional staff including HR and student well-being, and students are welcome to attend. The webinar will be recorded and made available to registrants. | | | Basic income and the financial challenges of everyday life
Hybrid event
Wednesday 3rd July 2024, 5pm - 6pm, Newcastle city
Discussants include fellow members Julia Cook, Julia Coffey & Steven Threadgold
| Fellow members Nick Osbaldiston and Rachel Busbridge are running a research project on social theory use in Australia exploring how social theories are used and valued in their contemporary classroom and research spaces. They are looking for anyone who identifies as a sociologist or related discipline, who is currently employed or a graduate student in an Australian university. If this is you and you are interested in this project, please click here to fill out a short 15 minute survey on your experiences with social theory. The survey is completely anonymous and no personal information is collected other than general demographic detail.
Should you have any questions, feel free to contact Nick and Rachel directly via email: nick.osbaldiston@jcu.edu.au and rachel.busbridge@acu.edu.au.
| Financial precarity, basic income and securing young people’s futures: challenging the intensifying financial violence of everyday life
Hybrid event
Wednesday 3rd July 2024, 10am - 2pm AEST
Chair: Julia Coffey
Speakers:
- Ben Matthews and Adriana Haro: Creative industry students, wageless work and the projectariat
- Rachael Jacobs: Can it work here?: Lessons from the BIA (Basic Income for the Arts) Pilot in Ireland
- Anne Gotfredsen: No time to waste in a teenage wasteland – girls’ precarious leisure in rural Sweden
- heal: The (re)turn to the family in the post-welfare state: what do we overlook when we talk about the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’?
- Josh Healy and Andi Pekarek: Inviting vista or hostile landscape? Young Australians’ views of gig work
- Ben Spies-Butcher: Basic Income in Precarious Times: Promises and limits
- Steve Threadgold: From entrepreneurial speculators to hopeful gamblers? Young people’s subjectivities and orientations towards the future
| Emotions of the Future
Friday 22 November
Macquarie University, Sydney
| Conservative Public History
With speaker fellow member Neville Buch presenting on Buckley in Australia: Considering Local Social Discourses among the Australian States (1938-1987)
June 20, 10am - 6pm
| Call for Submissions - Journals
| Slavery and Freedom in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Lens
Sociology, Special Issue
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....
| Social Science Methodology Conference
Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
November 27-29, 2024, in-person at the University of Sydney
Abstract submission deadline: September 20
Epidemics and transmissible disease. Scourges throughout History.
The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies (TMA for HSES) and the Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development (TWC for SRD)
December 3, 4, 5 / 2024 (Beja - Tunisia).
| Social Sciences Week 2024
Hosted by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
9-15 September 2024
Social Sciences Week is an annual event that celebrates and promotes the social sciences to a diverse audience of students, researchers, policymakers, and the public. During the week, a wide range of activities take place, including keynote lectures, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, and interactive events. These activities are hosted by leading universities, research institutes, and non-profit organisations across the country.
If you would like to get involved by running your own Social Sciences Week events, you have until the end of July to register them on our website. Once events are registered, we will publish them on the Social Sciences Week events calendar and begin promoting on social media. You can find more information about running your own event here, or email Anna Dennis, at the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, with any questions. | Gift memberships, for any membership category, can now be accessed at anytime via your membership profile screen. If you would like to gift a membership, to someone new or to a current member, please follow the steps below:
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| | TASA Documents and Policies | In case you are not aware, you can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2023 - 2024, and their respective portfolios, as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Values Statement, Statement on Academic Freedom, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures, Safe & Inclusive Events, Sustainable Events and TASA History.
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