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Welcome to the 44th newsletter for this year! If you have missed any, you can catch up on each edition via TASAweb here.
| We extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Dan Woodman (current immediate past president of TASA), who has been appointed a fellow to the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA).
Each year, the ASSA honours individuals who have demonstrated excellence in social science research, innovative thinking and a commitment to advancing knowledge that shapes policy and societal wellbeing. In case you are not aware, on top of Dan's terrific day-job achievements, he is also the founder of Social Sciences Week and the Congress of HASS.
|  | | Join us on Thursday 14th November, 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEDT), as fellow member Fran Collyer facilitates a heartfelt memorial webinar honoring the life and legacy of Lois Bryson, a distinguished Australian sociologist whose contributions have profoundly shaped the field of sociological research in Australia.
This webinar is a unique opportunity to celebrate Lois's remarkable contributions and the indelible mark she has left on the field of sociology. We invite you to join us in commemorating her extraordinary life and work.
| | | | You are invited to join the Generations and Housing 'hybrid' symposium
Monday November 25th, Perth and online.
‘Wicked problems’ are social issues that are difficult to define, challenging to resolve, and highly contested (Rittel and Webber, 1973). Housing in Australia has become a ‘wicked problem’ with multiple layers.
For the full details of the event, and to register, Read on...
| | | This is your space! We encourage you to support fellow sociologists by sharing details of your latest publications with them via our weekly 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 Sally in TASA Admin. The newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning.
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For the full details, and to register for the Journal of Sociology Special Issue launch, read on... | | | ‘Healthy’ Food Practices: Going beyond Structure versus Agency - call for abstracts
| | A 2026 Health Sociology Review Special Issue Guest edited by fellow member Natalie Jovanovski and, colleague, Bhavna Middha. | Our interactions with food are critical to physical health, psychological health, social health, spiritual health, environmental health, among many others. How we grow food, produce and manufacture it, how it is provisioned, and how we consume and digest it, celebrate and mourn over it, play with and feel anxious about it, as well as discard it, indicates complex relationships between self and society. Despite being inextricably connected, most discussions about food within sociology are siloed, focusing either on the structural factors that shape our food practices, or our personal choices and their consequences. This has limited how we understand the role of food practices – or the bridging of or going beyond structure and agency – in shaping people’s health and wellbeing.
This special issue advances a holistic focus on food in health sociology, using a theoretical lens that goes beyond structure versus agency in explaining food practices.
Abstract submission deadline: 23rd November. 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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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...
| 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
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Music and Mediation
9-10 June 2025
Conference at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide
Keynote speaker: Naomi Sunderland, Director, Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University
Mediation, in all its senses, from transmission to conflict resolution, is particularly relevant in times of technological innovation, sustainability challenges, forced displacement and struggles for equality or survival. This conference, generously supported by the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), is concerned with the ways music and the study of music may contribute to the many theories and practices around mediation.
Abstract submission deadline: 16 December. Read on....
| Institutional Gaslighting: An interdisciplinary workshop
20-21 February 2025 (in-person only)
Macquarie University, Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre
Keynote speaker: Prof. Davina Cooper, King’s College London
Abstract submission deadline: 18 November. Read on...
| What it means to be free
On the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Annual lecture by Sisonke Msimang
Friday, November 15, 6 - 7pm, AWST
WA State Library
| The Academic Balancing Act: Unpacking the Dynamics of Workload Pressure and Burnout
SHAPE Futures
28th November 2024, 1pm - 5pm, AWST.
For the full details, see the image below and Read on...
| | Vulnerability, extremism, and schooling: Restorative practices, policy enactment, and managing risk
by fellow members Garth Stahl & Sam Schulz with colleagues Ben Adams & Mel Baak
The Howling Owl ‘Monocle Room’ , 10 Vaughan Pl, Adelaide (just off Rundle)
Thursday 14th November from 5pm (AEDT)
| | | ‘Youth belonging: Rethinking transitions, integration & placemaking in a mobile world’
La Trobe University Agnes Heller Lecture 2024
Speaker: fellow member Anita Harris
Monday November 11, 9:30 am - 11:00am (AEDT)
| Birth, breastfeeding, and beyond: Feminist research on the family
Deakin University's Sociology and Social Change Collective
Monday, 18th November, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM AEDT
This is an interdisciplinary online seminar discussing feminist research on the family with a focus on maternal experiences and representations.
| CHASS Future Leaders
The CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize aims to recognise and reward young Australian writers (35 and under). The theme for 2024 is 'open'. The winner will receive $2000. Please email your submissions to helen@futureleaders.com.au by the extended deadline of November 30th, 2024 and cc CHASS Admin (membership@chass.org.au).
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.
| Special Issues - Call for Submissions
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New: Algorithms in Health and Medicine: Sociological Inquiries into Current Disruptions and Future Imaginaries
Sociology of Health & Illness
This special issue aims to expand the sociological theorising of digital transformations in health care and medicine, focusing specifically on algorithmic (including AI and data-driven) technologies. Papers are sought that will address increasingly important, and yet still emergent, matters of concern in the provision of healthcare and medicine and imaginaries of their futures.
Abstract submission deadline: 6 January, 2025. Read on...
New: Multiplicities in Qualitative Research
Methods in Psychology
Note, Methods in Psychology is an Open Access publication, but Article Processing Charges will be waived for all articles accepted for this Special Issue.
Qualitative research can frequently involve multiplicities in a range of ways. We collect data from multiple people, as when working with focus groups, couples, parents and children, affinity groups, and so on. We may engage in multiple data collections, using multiple interviews over time in longitudinal research, or using multiple methods to collect different forms of data. We may also involve multiple perspectives on analysis and interpretation, or in seeking data from different actors connected to an event of process. These uses of multiplicity raise issues for how we work, how they should be managed, and why they are valuable.
Submission deadline: 30 April, 2025. Read on...
"Enduring" Indigenous Voices and Perspectives Amidst Ongoing Structures of Colonialism.
Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Calling for contributions of original research articles, reviews of works (films, books, music, art exhibits), creative pieces (stories, poems) that explore the struggles for justice expressed in the lived experiences, knowledge systems, and cultural practices of indigenous communities across the globe.
Abstract submission deadline: November 30. Read on...
Aging Out of Out-of-Home Care: New services, sustaining support and tackling system failures
Call for Papers in Child and Family Social Work
Guest Editors: fellow members Joel McGregor, Ben Lohmeyer, and colleague Alhassan Abdullah
The age at which young people age out of care, and the support offered to them post-care, varies significantly across state, national and international boundaries. Yet, there is an international momentum for extending the age of young people exiting care including in multiple states of Australia, the USA and the UK. In response to the global movements to extend care for young people in out-of-home care into their early 20s, this special issue aims to instigate an international foundation for a new research and practice agenda for improving young people’s transition out of out-of-home care and their journey towards independent living.
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2025. Read on...
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.
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 | TASA’s Executive Committee (EC) governs the Association and manages its daily business as outlined in the Constitution and by established policies. A call for nominations for the 2027 – 2028 Executive term will be disseminated on July 1, 2026.
The November 2024 - November 2026 Executive Team can be viewed on TASAweb here.
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For the 50th anniversary celebrations in 2013, pages on TASA's history were added to TASAweb.
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