FINAL CALL
If you haven't already nominated, we encourage you to consider nominating for an Executive position. To assist your thinking about this opportunity, please access a copy of TASA’s 2023/24 Executive Organisational Chart here and the Executive Committee Position Descriptions here. Nominations are open for all Executive Committee positions.
|  | As you have hopefully heard, we are excited to announce that TASA has launched a pilot mentoring program, aimed at fostering growth and development among our members. The program will run for 6 months, starting with some online webinars designed for mentors and mentees to get the most out of the program. The aim would be for mentor/mentee pairs to meet fortnightly to monthly (6-12 sessions) either online or in-person or a mixture of both.
We are collecting some relevant information on very short forms! The full details are available on TASAweb here. You can also go straight to the mentee/mentor forms via the orange button below for the forms.
|  | At the start of 2021, TASA introduced a new initiative, 'The Australian Sociological Association’s Workshop Program', which was subsequently renamed the Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program.
There is up to AU$5,000 available (per workshop) for up to 2 workshops, to be held in Australia.
About the Workshop Program
- Presenting TASA outwardly – engaging with the community
- Potential for feeding into policy
- Connecting with the research community
- Bringing experts in from the community
Successful workshops will advance research within sociology and showcase TASA as the face of sociological/interdisciplinary research in the region; engaging with issues of national concern; advancement of knowledge; support innovative ideas, and, the potential of feeding into policy and practice development.
Expression of interest deadline: August 26th.
| We are delighted to announce that fellow member Natalie Galea had their article published as the lead story in The Conversation today. This achievement not only brings recognition to Natalie, but also highlights the caliber, and relevance, of research being conducted by members of our association.
| The Journal of Sociology Volume 60 Issue 2, June 2024 is now available here.
| New: "How to Convene a TASA Thematic Group: A rough guide" A special online meeting
With presentations from two current Thematic Group (TG) convenors, this meeting will include plenty of time for questions and discussion, as well as practical suggestions, ideas, and lessons from past experiences.
Speakers:
Peta Cook: A sociologist at the University of Tasmania, Peta is currently the co-convener of the Ageing and Sociology thematic group and has previously been convener of the Teaching Sociology thematic group. Notably, Peta has also been on TASA’s national executive as Vice President, Treasurer, and Thematic Group Portfolio Leader. She received TASA’s Sociology in Action Award in 2020
Catriona Stevens: Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab at Edith Cowan University, Catriona's interests include class and migration, transnational ageing and caregiving, and the abuse of older people (elder abuse). She co-convenes the TASA Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group and is a board member for ISA Research Committee 31 Sociology of Migration.
All welcome, including TG conveners from beginners to “veterans”. (If you know folks who are not yet convenors but interested, feel free to forward them the meeting link below.)
Hosted by Tom Barnes, TASA's Thematic Group Portfolio Leader
| | Generations and Housing Symposium
Note, this event is on the day before TASA 2024 starts
| | | Indigenous Research Assistant
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
TASA is seeking an interested and motivated Indigenous Research Assistant (RA) to support enhancing the visibility and inclusion of Indigenous sociology/ists and research. This role is integral to advancing TASA’s commitment to Indigenous perspectives being included in and influencing sociology.
We respectfully ask and encourage you to share this call with your networks.
Forum Basiliense Junior Fellows
University of Basel, Switzerland
3-6 months visits during 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 (open call)
Melbourne Social Equity Institute
University of Melbourne
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.
| | 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 Social Life of Death
The Australian Centre for Health Law Research and the Australian Death Studies Society
July 31st, 3:30pm - 5:00pm AEST
Queensland University of Technology, Garden Point Campus
| Special Issues - Call for Abstracts
| Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts
Current Sociology Monographs
This Monograph brings migration studies into dialogue with the sociology of class to interrogate how these two fields intersect. Recognising the challenges that contemporary migration presents to extant approaches to conceptualising class, contributing papers will present cases from diverse global contexts as a source of theory building. We take inspiration from the need to translate between concepts, systems, languages and cultures in migration studies, and argue that considering class from migration contexts provides opportunities to develop a new grammar of class theory. Through migration, class boundaries are formed, changed or dissolved, and new classed practices and positions emerge. The social and spatial mobility inherent to migration processes invites us to move away from epistemically centred approaches to class and reframe our thinking through comparison and conceptual translation.
Papers are invited that respond to these theoretical challenges.
Deadline for 300 word abstract: 1 September 2024. Read on...
| TikTok Cultures in Korea
TikTok Cultures Research Network
Online, September 9th
Innovative methods for exploring financial abuse
Hawthorn, 10am-4pm, Monday 9 September (as part of Social Sciences Week)
Morning tea and lunch provided, including full barista service
A limited number of travel bursaries are available to support interstate HDR/ECR attendance
Expression of interest deadline: 1 August. Read on...
Emotions of the Future
Friday 22 November
Macquarie University, Sydney
| Petition - Call for Signatures
| | Higher Degree Research (HDR) Stipend E-Petition
Petition to the Australian Federal Government to improve HDR conditions
The Universities Accord laid out 47 recommendations, several of which relate to Higher Degree by Research (HDR) student working conditions. These recommendations are yet to be addressed. The raising of the Research Training Program (RTP) stipend is of the utmost importance. The current minimum stipend awarded is $32,192, an amount that is $11,771 below the national minimum wage.
| | | 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...
| 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).
| 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.
|  | The more members TASA has, the stronger our association can be.
To help spread the word about TASA, you can quickly and easily gift a TASA membership to someone from within your TASA membership profile.
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 | TASA currently has 27 thematic groups in operation and members can join up to 4 groups. This can be done quickly, and easily via your membership profile.
Watch the very short video (1:30) to learn how to join a thematic group/s.
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 | TASA's Membership Directory allows you to search for members by country and state. It also has search functions for members of a particular thematic group, and members who are available for supervision and/or mentoring.
To learn how to search the Membership Directory, watch this very short video (1 min).
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 | Via your membership profile, you can update many options including adding a secondary email address, and indicating if you are available for mentoring, supervising, consulting, and/or talking to the media, for example. If you are in a Tier 2, Tier 3 & Tier 4 membership category, you can also opt in or out of receiving a hard copy of the Journal of Sociology.
All of these changes can be done quickly and easily. To learn how, watch this video (1 min). |
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Personal pronoun preferences can be added to your profile. There are 9 combination options to choose from. Please let Sally in TASA Admin know if your preference/s is not on the list and we will have them added.
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 | We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small.
Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do email through details of your latest publication/s (fully referenced & with a link, where possible), events, job adverts etc. for the next newsletter, to TASA Admin. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning. |
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 | As part of the agreement with Taylor & Francis, TASA members are entitled to a 30% books discount. This discount is valid on any full priced CRC Press or Routledge book.
To access the book discount, click on the following link and then log in to TASAweb: book discount link. |
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TASA Admin (Sally): admin@tasa.org.au
TASA Events (Penny): events@tasa.org.au | |