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As you are hopefully aware, Social Sciences Week (SSW) starts this coming Monday September 9th. SSW is a week-long series of events held across Australia each September. The week is about showcasing and offering insight into the impact of the Social Sciences on our lives. The events are held mostly online. See the end of this newsletter for some events that TASA members are participating in. For the full SSW details, visit the SSW website here. As a proud reminder! SSW is the brainchild of Dan Woodman, our immediate past president.
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We invite you to join us at 3pm (AEST) TODAY, Thursday 5th September for our TASA Thursdays Post Grad Session: Zine and Zine making as sites of research brave spaces with guest speaker Rachele Reschiglian.
Rachel will be joining us from Italy, which is why the event is not at the usual time.
Meeting ID: 847 1515 2065 Passcode: 008103
| Join us on Thursday 19th September 2024 for TASA Thursdays: Turning to the sensed unconscious presented by Prof. Sarah Maslen from the University of Canberra.
For more information or to register Click here | | | Browne, Josephine and Sutton, Zoei (eds) Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises: Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal (London: Routledge). DOI:10.4324/9781003257912
|  | | This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission. Considering the consequences of a range of multispecies engagements that challenge the perceived distinction between the social worlds of humans and other animals, it explores the themes of crisis through a range of studies, including ecological disturbance, consumer culture, intensive farming and interspecies relations in urban life. With attention to central questions about life in ‘the now normal’, including the extent to which a human–animal perspective can contribute to our understanding of pandemics, the ideological foundations of mainstream norms for human–animal relations and the scope of current and emerging social movements for reshaping human–animal relations, this volume represents a timely and important call for a sociological vision to embrace the implications of a multispecies planet and to expand the concepts of inclusion and justice. Read on... | | | Chandra, S., Broom, A., Ridge, D., Peterie, M., Lafferty, L., Broom, J., Kenny, K., Treloar, C., & Applegate, T. (2024). Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13832 [OPEN ACCESS]
Nick Turnbull, Shaun Wilson, and Greg Agoston (2024) 'Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict', European Educational Research Journal, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14749041241272627 [OPEN ACCESS]
| From Thesis to Book: The Ins and Outs of Converting a PhD into a Monograph
Online, Thursday September 19, 12-1pm AEST / 11:30am-12:30pm ACST / 10am-11am AWST
Do you want to turn your thesis into a book but don’t know where to start? This online lunchtime workshop, hosted by TASA MEM, will take you through the entire step-by-step process of converting a PhD thesis into a monograph. It will delve into how to prepare a book proposal and re-arrange thesis content as well as how to deal with practical issues such as which software and referencing program to use and finding the right proofreader and indexer. Fellow member Jennifer Cheng will provide tips and advice and explain the pitfalls to avoid based on her own experiences, while Jessica Faecks, from Palgrave Macmillan will provide the publisher’s perspective on how best to approach this process.
Note, a Zoom link will be available closer to the event.
| Hopefully you received our dedicated email sent earlier this week regarding the Journal of Sociology 2026 special issue, which will be selected and managed by the incoming Editors in Chief for 2025-2028, fellow members Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn.
Expression of interest deadline: September 30th. Read on...
| Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Special Issue
Health Sociology Review, Volume 33, Issue 2 (2024)
To access all articles of the special issue, read on...
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New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow/ Research Fellow in Sociology
University of Sydney
Work with fellow member Michelle Peterie and the team at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies
New: Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies is currently looking for a full-time Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow, who will contribute to various research projects and activities carried out by the Centre, with a specific focus on advancing knowledge and understanding on technology, gender, and youth.
For details, read on...
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Hong Kong Baptist University
Review of applications is ongoing until the position is filled.
Casual Research Assistant – Indigenising the Curriculum
University of Queensland
This is a casual position (approximately 1 day per week x 14 weeks) commencing in early September to early December, at HEW 6.3. The following flexible employment options may be available for this role: Part time/job share; some working from home; variable start or finish times; compressed hours.
If you would like to discuss this role, you can contact fellow member Rebecca Olson.
| New: Young People & Disasters
Victoria University's Youth and Community Research Group & Youth Affairs Council Victoria
The PhD research must focus on disasters in Australian context but can target specific aspects of young people's experience.
Work with fellow member Fiona McDonald
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Two scholarships available
University of Melbourne
Language & Cultural Diversity in Automated Decision-Making: Australasia Pacific
Western Sydney University
This PhD opportunity is aligned with the project on Language and Cultural Diversity in Automated Decision-Making (ADM): Australia in the Asia Pacific in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Planetary Justice – Stories and Studies of Action, Resistance and Solidarity
Book launch & discussion
Hybrid, Thursday September 19th, Naarm CBD, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AEST
The book is Open Access and available here.
Note, for those who attend in person, there will be light snacks at the event, with then the opportunity to go for happy hour drinks after the panel at the Hightail Bar & Grill | Happy Hour, Event Space on Collins Street, Docklands downstairs. The panel will also be livestreamed online, for those who can’t make it in person.
| New: Civilizational Populism: National and International Challenges
European Centre for Populism Studies
May 21-23, 2025 / Warsaw, Poland
Abstract submission deadline: 15 October .Read on...
| Ethics in Turbulent Times: How to Bring Society to Higher Ground
Starting in Social Sciences Week on September 10th
Tuesday, 10 September 2024 6:30 pm to Tuesday, 15 October 2024 9:30 pm
University College - University of Melbourne
Speakers include fellow member Susan Carland.
Fellow member, Ricki Spencer, interviewed Professor Camilleri regarding the upcoming series. You an access that video here.
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ISA Forum of Sociology
The 5th ISA Forum of Sociology will be an on-site event only, and we look forward to welcoming you onsite in Morocco!
Submission deadline: October 15, 2024. Read on...
Organizational Accidents: The Impact of Fragmentation and Uncertainty on Professional Life in High Risk Contexts
ISA Forum of Sociology
Rabat, Morocco, July 6-11, 2025
Submission deadline: October 15, 2024. Read on...
| Sorrento Creative Writing Prize
The Prize celebrates the annual Sorrento Writers Festival and its mission to bring writers and readers together. The winner will receive $5,000 and their writing featured at the 2025 Sorrento Writers Festival and at www.writing.org.au.
| Routledge Studies in Gender and the Criminal Legal System
Edited by fellow member Annette Bromdal et al.
This exciting new book series has been established to create and enable a body of research that will inform debates and policy surrounding gender within and around the criminal legal system.
| XIII Portuguese Congress of Sociology
S. Miguel, Azores, 8 to 11 July 2025.
Abstract submission deadline: 14 October 2024. Read on...
| The Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) Fellowship Program
ACSPRI's mission is to help foster high-quality teaching and research in the social sciences and to enhance the impact of social science research. To help achieve this mission, ACSPRI is pleased to continue the ACSPRI Fellowship Program supporting the next generation of high-quality researchers in the social sciences. Valued at $25,000, the fellowship will help PhD students to achieve their career goals, by providing direct financial support and professional development opportunities.
Application deadline: September 30th. Read on....
| Special Issues - Call for Abstracts
| Digital governance for a Human-Centred society
Platform: Journal of Media and Communication
The world’s increasing interdependence and reliance on digital platforms, mobile applications, data, algorithms, and automated technologies poses various issues and challenges.
Incarceration and health
Scientific Reports
Original research into incarceration and health, including studies on the health of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families and healthcare within correctional facilities are welcome.
Guest editors include fellow member Annette Bromdal.
| New: Doctors with a difference? Social science insights on widening participation in medicine: Australian, Canadian and UK perspectives.
September 9 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEST
Convened by fellow members Caragh Brosnan and Steve Threadgold
This webinar presents findings from three countries on the experiences of medical students and doctors who are the first in their family to attend university and largely come from low-income backgrounds. Looking beyond the statistics, it considers how the success of widening participation in medicine can be better understood, and the implications of increasing participation for patients, the profession and humanistic medical practice.
New: Fostering social cohesion: intercultural strategies for strengthening Australian multiculturalism
Tuesday 10th September 2024, 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm AEST, Online
This webinar will discuss the role of intercultural strategies in fostering social cohesion and inclusion in Australia.
Speakers include fellow member Glenda Ballantyne
Harmful care, careful harm: relational entanglements in migration
Online, Monday 9th Sep 2024, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm AEST
Chair: fellow member Leah Williams Veazey
Speakers include fellow member Michelle Peterie
Child protection in the age of AI, sees Prof Michael Salter (SoSS, UNSW) facilitate a conversation with experts Grace Tame (Australian of the Year 2021), Jon Rouse (Queenslander of the Year 2019), and Zoe Lonard about the sinister implications of AI on child protection. AI is lauded as the next big thing in tech, but its release and uniquity has grave implications on children and the production of child sexual assault material. The panel's timely conversation will discuss legal and policy aspects of AI in this context as well as social considerations.
Details: 12 September, Thursday 4-5.30pm @ Esme Timbery UNSW (no livestream). Read on...
Solidarity and the right to protest, brings together a panel chaired by Prof Ben Golder (Law & Justice, UNSW) to discuss the global phenomenon of the student encampments for Gaza and explore legal questions these encampments raise in relation to the right to protect, freedom of expression, and right of assembly. The panel includes A/Prof Nick Apoifis (SoSS, UNSW), Prof Luke McNamara (Law & Justice, UNSW), Dr Liz Strakosch (University of Melbourne), and Rand Katib (student organiser).
Details: 12 September, Thursday 6-7.30pm @ Esme Timbery UNSW (no livestream). Read on....
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.
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The November 2024 - November 2026 Executive Team can be viewed on TASAweb here.
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