 | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Welcome to the final newsletter for 2024. This is just a quick note to thank all of you for your continued support of TASA throughout 2024 and to wish you the best for the coming new year.
Thanks also to everyone who attended our recent conference, either online or on Noongar country in Boorloo (Perth). It was, as always, filled with great papers and panels – and marked by the usual friendly and supportive atmosphere. Enormous gratitude must go to the National Conference Organising Committee and, especially, to TASA Events Manager, Penny Toth and Executive Officer, Sally Daly.
Finally, I want to extend a welcome to our many new TASA Executive members for 2025-2026. Most importantly, I extend heartfelt thanks to our outgoing president of the past four years, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, who has steered the Association – through difficult times – with enormous care and vision. Big thanks also to our immediate past president, Dan Woodman, who steps off TASA's executive after a decade of boundless contribution.
I’ll leave it there, having found myself writing something unnervingly akin to a ‘Queen’s Christmas Message’.
All the best and take care,
Kim (Humphery)
TASA Pres. 2025-26
| | TASA 2025 Conference Key Dates
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Conference
Monday November 24th to Thursday November 27th, 2025
Submissions
Panels
Open: February 2025
Close: 17th March 2025
Notification: 31st March 2025
General
Open: February 2025
Close: 22nd April 2025
Notification: 26th May 2025
Registration
Open: February 2025
Close: 28th June 2025.
Standard
Open: 29th June 2025
Close: Ongoing
Bursaries
Open: February 2025
Close: 22nd April 2025
Notification: 26th May, 2025
Program
Program Release: 14th August, 2025
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SAVE THE DATE
TASA bestows several prestigious awards. For 2025, the following awards will be available:
- Distinguished Services to Australian Sociology Award
- Outstanding Service to TASA Award
- Jean Martin Award for best PhD in Sociology
- Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology
- Sociology in Action Award
- Best Paper in the Journal of Sociology
- Best Paper in Health Sociology Review
- Early Career Researcher Award
- Postgraduate Impact & Engagement Award
The Jean Martin Award is open for nominations. All other Awards requiring nominations will open in March 2025 and close on June 2nd, 2025. For details on each award, read on...
| | The Impact of Opportunity: Reflections from some more TASA 2024 Bursary Recipients
| Last week, we shared reflections from some of our TASA 2024 bursary recipients. We have a few more to share with you this week:
We hope you enjoy reading their perspectives, as much as we did, and learning more about the impact of TASA bursaries.
| | Calling all Postgraduates
| | Molly, (pictured left), TASA’s Postgraduate Portfolio Leader, is calling for expressions of interests to join TASA’s Postgraduate Sub-Committee (PGSC) for the 2025-2026 term. This PGSC will support Molly in representing and furthering the interests of TASA’s postgraduate members. The PGSC consists of a maximum of seven members who usually serve a two-year term and meet online approximately four times a year as well as face-to-face at the annual conference.
Expression of interest deadline: January 24th, 2025. Please put PGSC in the subject line.
| | | | Searching for EM Schreiber
| From time to time, we receive inquiries from individuals trying to reconnect with former colleagues. Recently, we were contacted by someone seeking EM Schreiber, a sociologist who was affiliated with La Trobe University and left around 1979-1980.
If you have current contact details for EM Schreiber, we kindly ask that you either share them with Sally in our TASA Admin team or inform EM that Glynne Huilgol would like to get in touch.
Thank you for your assistance.
| | 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... | | | 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: TODAY 18 December at 11:30pm AEDT. Read on...
| 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.
| Akifeva, R. (2024). Producing Russian-Speaking Community Activities in Australia: The Role of Migrant Organisations and Russian Political Influence. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2399002
Murphy, D. A., Race, K., Pienaar, K., & Lea, T. (2024). Remaking Chemsex Event Networks in the Age of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Body & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X241298173 [OPEN ACCESS].
Newton, G., Kirby, E., Hofstätter, L., Judd-Lam, S., Smith, L., Churchill, B., Strnadová, I. and Newman, C.E., 2024. ‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses. Sociological Research Online, p.13607804241287628, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13607804241287628 [OPEN ACCESS].
Radford, D., Krivokapic-Skoko, B., Hetz, H., Roberts, R., Soong, H., Tan. G. (2024) ‘Everyday Refugee Integration: A holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees’, Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241291617 [OPEN ACCESS].
| Reports: 2024 Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program
| | Members' Seeking Reviewers
| Fellow member James Godfrey is seeking a reviewer for a 10,000 word paper that for the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies's May edition. The paper is provisionally titled 'Let it flow? Prevent Duty and Freedom of Expression on Campus Related to Palestine' and arises from a presentation James gave in October at The North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies 53rd Annual Conference “Palestine, Israel, Questions of Free Speech and Interreligious Relations”. If you can assist James, please contact him directly via james.godfrey@canberra.edu.au.
| | 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.
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Greta is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Henry Halloran Research Trust at the University of Sydney. Her research examines the social processes that inform urban and regional development including transport and residential infrastructure, by conducting research comparing discursive and political fields in which social housing is constructed. Other research interests include regional migration and liveability, to understand the motivations for migration and the factors reducing churn and leading to deeper and more stable populations, and climate adaptation in housing infrastructure. | | | The next Thematic Group (TG) funding application deadline is March 1st, 2025. Groups can apply for up to $3000 (a one-off increase from the usual $2000) for events scheduled between July 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025. There is also additional funding to support Welcome to Country ceremonies and to meet accessibility needs for your events. Yesterday, a deadline reminder email was disseminated directly to all Thematic Group conveners from admin@tasa.org.au. Please contact Sally in TASA Admin if you are a TG convener and that email did not reach you.
| 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 | Visiting Fellowship Opportunity
| New: Visiting Professor in Australian Studies, University of Tokyo
International Australian Studies Association
Application deadline: 14th February, 2025. Read on...
| Graduate Research Program
| New: The Australian Centre Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Program in Indigenous Settler Relations
Applications are open for the 2025 Australian Centre Graduate Research Program. The Program is open to graduate researchers in any faculty whose topic has relevance to the emerging field of Indigenous settler relations in Australia and the world. The Program connects students with researchers across disciplines, fostering an engaged and supportive intellectual community, and creating a strong cohort experience for the duration of their study. The Program deepens academic understandings and enhances interdisciplinary knowledge exchange on research that leads to more just relations between Indigenous and settler peoples.
Activities throughout the year include exclusive masterclasses and workshops, writing retreats and a critical reading group, as well as access to the suite of seminars, and public lectures run by the Australian Centre. Entering its fifth year, the Program continues to grow. The 2024 cohort included 72 students across 30 disciplines from 27 universities throughout Australia and overseas. The feedback from participants is overwhelmingly positive, and all said they would highly recommend the Program to other students.
| ‘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...
| 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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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 members have free access to over 90 peer-reviewed Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals encompassing over 63,000 articles. The image on the left shows you where to access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, when logged in to TASAweb. If needed, here is a short instructive video on how to access the online resources. |
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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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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 | |