Dear all,
Your TASA Postgrad Subcommittee has had a busy (and fun!) start to the year! We have some exciting things coming up and we can't wait to share more with you over the coming months.
If you haven't had a chance to get familiar with us, meet your subcommittee HERE
Introducing TASA Postgrads Members Spotlight!
Each month starting from June we are going to be featuring one of our fantastic postgrads on our social media pages, as well as in your TASA Postgrads monthly email newsletter. This is a great opportunity to put yourself out there to other postgrads in the TASA community. Each month, there will be an opportunity to nominate yourself for the monthly spotlight. All we need from you is a short biography describing you and your research (3-4 sentences), a photo you're comfortable with us sharing and any links to your social media or websites you'd like to share (subject to alignment with TASA's values). Our lucky member will then be randomly selected. If you're not selected, do not fret! Your nomination will carry over into the next month and so on!
If you are selected, you will be featured on our LinkedIn and Bluesky pages as well as in our monthly TASA Postgrad email newsletter.
Fill out our Expression of Interest form for the TASA Postgrads Member Spotlight BELOW:
TASA Postgrads Reading Group!
We are starting a TASA Postgrads reading group! This reading group will be focused on core and emerging sociological theories, concepts and methods. The reading group will meet monthly over Zoom for an hour to discuss that month's readings. Members of the reading group will have the opportunity to select readings and facilitate discussion, this is a great opportunity to get us reading about your own sociological interests! We want to make sure as many of you can make it as possible. So, if you'd like to join us for a monthly reading group please fill out the below poll with your preferred day and time:
Call for Expressions of Interest in Journal of Sociology 60th anniversary Special edition
From the Editors-in-Chief Journal of Sociology:
'In 2025, Journal of Sociology is celebrating 60 years of publishing sociological research in Australia. To mark this anniversary, we are planning a number of initiatives, including an online only special edition of the journal that will showcase highlights from the past 60 years as seen through today’s lens. For this, we are reaching out to the postgraduate community in TASA as we are keen to hear where the next generation of sociologists find inspiration in the rich history that is the journal’s archive. More specifically, we will re-publish one article from each decade (so 6 in total) with a new introduction/motivation for why this article is of particular value to us today. This could be because it addresses contemporary social or sociological concerns, because it took a particularly novel approach to investigating its topic, or because informs an aspect of your own research (as this is also a chance to show your own expertise).
We are looking for 6 PhD students to each identify one article from the JoS archive and write a 3,000 word piece (peer reviewed) by August 15. As we hope for some diversity in research interests and approaches, we are calling for short expressions of interest that include a few sentences about your field of research and methodological approach. If you are interested in particular decade, please also let us know this. Otherwise we will assign decades to successful contributors.
Please note, we are not expecting you to read through an entire decade’s worth of JoS issues to identify your paper of interest! To a large extent the search can be done by looking through online Tables of contents and using keyword search. We are also available to support you. We hope this is a fun way of being part of the JoS anniversary celebrations while at the same time getting a peer-reviewed publication out of it. Most institutions have a 3,000 word lower limit for what counts as a publication, hence the word count requirements.
Please submit your EoI by May 30 by emailing us both on the email addresses below.
Ash Barnwell and Signe Ravn ashley.barnwell@unimelb.edu.au and signe.ravn@unimelb.edu.au Editors-in-Chief Journal of Sociology'
Kind regards,
Your postgraduate sub-committee |