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Welcome to the 2nd last TASA newsletter for 2024! Our final edition for the year will be sent out next Wednesday, December 18th, and will include a special message from our new president, Kim Humphery.
If you’d like to share something in the final newsletter, please email the details to Sally in TASA Admin by the end of Tuesday, December 17th.
As promised in last week’s newsletter, we’re excited to share the recordings of our TASA 2024 keynote presentations:
Thank you for being part of TASA in 2024. We look forward to wrapping up the year with you in our final newsletter!
| | The Impact of Opportunity: Reflections from some of our TASA 2024 Bursary Recipients
| TASA is committed to supporting members in attending our annual conference through a range of TASA-funded bursaries. This year, we proudly awarded 30 bursaries across five categories:
- Accessibility: 1 recipient
- Carers: 1 recipient
- Sociology in Action: 2 recipients
- Postgraduate (including the Jerzy Zubrzycki): 17 recipients
- Precariously Employed: 9 recipients
As part of their bursary agreements, recipients are encouraged to reflect on what the support meant to them. This week, we’re excited to share insights and reflections from ten TASA 2024 bursary recipients:
We hope you enjoy reading their perspectives and learning more about the impact of TASA bursaries.
| | Jean Martin Award - Nominations Now Open!
| | Nominations for the 2025 Jean Martin Award are now open. This is a biennial award with the 2025 round being open to theses for which a PhD has been/will be formally awarded, by an Australian Tertiary Institution, between the period March 1st 2023 to 28 February 2025.
Nominations accepted include self-nominations as well as nominations from Supervisors, Heads of Sociology departments/schools and interdisciplinary Social science departments and other departments with a major commitment to Sociological analysis within Australian tertiary institutions.
As part of the nomination process, a one-page statement addressing the criteria, and outlining the sociological relevance of the thesis will need to be uploaded.
Nominations close on March 3rd, 2025. For details, and to nominate, read on... | | | New: Post-Doctoral Fellow - Qualitative sociological research, ARC Discovery Project
University of New South Wales
Under the leadership of Chief Investigator fellow member Professor Emma Kirby on a project funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant “Dying in delay”
3-Year Fixed-Term Contract, Part-Time (21 hours p/week)
Application deadline: 18 December at 11:30pm AEDT. Read on...
| New: Evaluating Psychosocial Programs to Improve the Health of People Born with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics
University of Southern Queensland with fellow member Annette Brombal
A PhD by publication with Scholarship to the InterLink team - an intersex mental health and wellbeing service part of an MRFF funded research project titled: Improving the physical and mental health of people born with innate variations of sex characteristics.
Application deadline: Friday 14 February, 2025. Read on...
| 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.
| Suter, C., Chesters, J. & Fachelli, S. (2024) Well-being During the Pandemic: Comparative Perspectives from the Global North and the Global South. Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63440-6 [OPEN ACCESS]. | This open access book focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being, happiness and quality of life, taking into account the mediating effects of social inequalities. The volume brings together and into dialogue the different experiences and perspectives of countries and researchers from the Global North and South. Expert scholars from across the world have analyzed empirical data to reveal how the restrictions associated with the pandemic interrupted lives and livelihoods, and how different socio-economic groups and classes have been differently affected by the crisis. The chapters coalesce around four themes: the impact of COVID-19 on subjective well-being, life satisfaction and happiness in a comparative and longitudinal perspective; the impact of COVID-19 on employment and workers’ well-being; sociability, civic participation and solidarity during COVID-19; and the impact of COVID-19 on children’s and youths’ well-being. Read on... | | | Thorneycroft R, Nicholas L, and Smith EK (2024) ‘It gets a little dicey on the home page’: Articulations of desire and disgust on aggregate porn sites. Sexuality & Culture. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-024-10300-5
Nguyen-Trung, Kien, Saeri, Alexander K., Kaufman, Stefan, Applying ChatGPT and AI-Powered Tools to Accelerate Evidence Reviews, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2024, 8815424, 14 pages, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/8815424 [OPEN ACCESS].
Chandra, S., Broom, A., Haire, B., Ridge, D., & Broom, J. (2024). Sampling and recruiting LGBTQ+ populations in health research: reflections on community consultations about antibiotic resistant STIs. Health Sociology Review, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2024.2422878
| | Members' Work in Progress
| Conferences are great for feedback and ideas and TASA 2024 has generated some terrific suggestions. We are implementing one of those ideas today! Starting from this newsletter, as well as any publications you may have to contribute, we are inviting you to share your work-in-progress.
Please submit your work-in-progress in a Word document by Wednesday for inclusion in the Thursday edition. We look forward to showcasing your work and fostering collaboration within our community.
| 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...
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: ‘We, the People’ and the Future of Democracy: Interdisciplinary Approaches
European Center for Populism Studies & Oxford University
Hybrid, July 1-2, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025. Read on...
| New: Exploring the Dynamics of Crime: Contemporary Challenges and Innovations in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences & the International Society for Criminology
19th to 22nd June 2025
O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, National Capital Region, India.
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31. Read on...
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....
|  | The Jobs & Scholarships Board allows you to view opportunities that TASA Admin and fellow members have posted.
In 4 easy steps, you can upload job & scholarship opportunities from your member's profile screen. For instructions, visit here.
The Jobs & Scholarships Board is a public facing searchable feature of TASAweb.
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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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 | TASA was officially established under the name of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand (SAANZ) in 1963, crystallising what was a long, and perhaps delayed process of the discipline’s development in Australia.
For the 50th anniversary celebrations in 2013, pages on TASA's history were added to TASAweb.
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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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