 | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Thanks to the 10% of members who’ve completed our Biennial Survey!
We’re delighted to see the response rate climbing. Thank you to you if you've already taken the time to share your thoughts (it's anonymous so we don't know if you have or haven't!). As mentioned previously, your feedback helps guide TASA’s direction, shape new initiatives, and improve how we support our diverse and growing community.
If you haven’t yet had a chance, there’s still time to add your voice! The 2025 Biennial Membership Survey is open until Sunday 9 June. Your input genuinely matters. You’ll find the orange survey button below - click, sip your favourite drink, and let us know what’s working, what’s missing, and what you’d love to see more of.
2025 Biennial Membership Survey
Also a reminder: Early bird registration for TASA 2025 closes on Friday 28 June. If you’re planning to present, you’ll need to register by then to be included in the program.
This week’s newsletter includes:
- A special welcome to a teacher and 11 of their students to TASA
- A new teaching opportunity at the University of Melbourne (Semester 2)
- Recent publications by fellow members
- Upcoming events
Scroll on for all the details.
| | Welcoming our new Members
| Let’s give a warm sociological welcome to the newest members of TASA! Each week, we’re proud to highlight those who’ve just joined our association and are now part of our growing network of thinkers, researchers, and change-makers.
This week, we’d like to extend a special welcome to Rebecca Miller and her sociology students from St Joseph’s College in Mildura, who have all joined TASA (highlighted below by an Asterix).
We’re thrilled to see high school students engaging with sociology and becoming part of our national community. Thank you, Rebecca, for introducing your students to the discipline - and to us!
Welcome:
- *Ella Byra
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Benjamin Garcia-Lee
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*Regan Heeps
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*Adelaide Larsen
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*Rebecca Miller
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*Juliet Moodley
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*Hannah Morello
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Jacqueline Mulholland
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*Eli Pullman
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*Alice Ryan
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Nilesh Sawant
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*Edasu Sengal
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Huda Syyed
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*Aaliyah-Rose Trovatello
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*Sophia Walter
- *Giorgia Zappia
Thanks for being part of the journey, we’re so glad to have you on board!
| From July 6 to July 13, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians alike will celebrate NAIDOC week (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee). This week-long celebration of Indigenous history, culture, and strength has become a period of reflection and festivity alike, with this year's theme "The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy" encouraging a future that promotes Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty. We strongly encourage all Mob and non-Mob to get involved and find out what events are going on in your area. The NAIDOC website contains a list of events, though your local community may have others on as well.
You can access a list of events on the NAIDOC website here.
TASA's Indigenous Team: Joann Schmider, Morgan Carter and John Sopar
| TASA Thursdays Sport, Healing and Social Justice
Thursday 19 June | 🕧 12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST | 📍 Zoom | 🎟 Free
Drawing on the recent TASA funded Garry Bouma Memorial Workshop, this thought-provoking event will explore sport as both a site of wellbeing and harm, highlighting trauma-informed and decolonising approaches to equity in sport.
Join fellow members Adele Pavlidis, Simone Fullagar, and colleague Diti Bhattacharya, discussing sport and mental health, and unpacking how research, policy and practice can support safe, inclusive participation in sport.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER | | | SAVE THE DATE - July 24
TASA Thursdays - Applying Social Research for Policy Impact
Join fellow member Andrew Clarke for an engaging talk on applying social research to real-world housing and welfare challenges. Drawing on his work in homelessness, social housing, and urban governance, Andrew will share how he balances theory and practice, engages diverse stakeholders, and contributes to public debate on pressing policy problems. Ideal for postgrads and early career researchers interested in creating policy impact. | |
Wolfinger, E., Hanckel, B., & Huppatz, K. (2025). Anticipating gendered futures? Young adults’ financial practices in relationships and work-family plans. Journal of Gender Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2513442 (open access).
Possamai, A. (2025). Post-secularism as the secularism of the exit of secularism: Australia as a case study of passé secularism. Critical Research on Religion, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032251344339 (open access).
| | The call for expressions of interest for our 2026 Gary Bouma Workshop Program is now open. TASA can fund up to two workshops at AU$5000.00 each.
Successful workshops will advance research within sociology and showcase TASA as the face of sociological/interdisciplinary research in the region; engaging with issues of national concern; advancement of knowledge; support innovative ideas, and, the potential of feeding into policy and practice development.
Expression of interest deadline: July 14th.
| | | TASA Awards currently open for nominations include:
Nominations for these four awards close on 17 July.
Nominees will be notified of the outcome in August (for most awards) and October (for the JMA). Award recipients will be formally announced at our TASA 2025 Conference Dinner in November.
| Contesting Military Identities
Monday 22nd September
TASA's Cultural Sociology Thematic Group in conjunction with UniSA, Flinders University and the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group are hosting a 1-day conference in Adelaide and online around the theme of Contesting Military Identities.
Abstract submission deadline: July 1st. Read on... | New: Teaching Opportunity, Semester 2 2025
Casual, June/ July – November 2025
University of Melbourne
They are seeking someone who is sociologically trained, to join a dynamic teaching team in Semester 2, 2025. They're particularly interested if you have a practice background in the education, public health, youth or community services sectors, and/or working with disadvantaged communities.
You would be teaching professionals who already work in same (eg. doctors, teachers, nurses, allied health, social workers, police) the fundamental concepts for an applied socio-environmental approach to understanding and working more effectively with young people. In focus are fundamental ideas like social change, inequality, historical, global and cultural perspectives, class, gender, race, ability, geographies, inter-sectionality … etc. SEC (see below) is a core subject in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Master in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing.
The subject is ready to go but needs a great communicator with a heart for effective practice. Read on...
Contact Dr Ani Wierenga. | | Scholarship Opportunities
| Tackling the consumption of sexual violence on screen
PhD Scholarship, Flinders University
The full-time PhD candidate may be based in Adelaide or elsewhere in Australia – relocation to Adelaide is not required. The project will involve some domestic and international travel.
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Newcastle Youth Studies Online Seminar Series
The Newcastle Youth Studies Centre is a collaborative group of researchers who work with young people to understand their lives, and the social, cultural, and economic forces they are living in. They have the following online seminars scheduled:
- Automating Everyday Life (July 30)
- New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal (August 20)
- The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness (September 24)
- The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter (October 8)
- The False Divide between Nature and Culture (November 5)
- ‘Your mum didn’t take selfies’: Youth and image cultures on social media (November 19)
For the details of each event, and to register, read on...
New: Digital Modernities: Why We Need to Think Historically About the Digital Age
Friday 1 August 2-4pm AEST. Followed by Light refreshments 4-5pm
ACU Melbourne campus & online
We are living in an era of digital modernity that amounts to a recursion of earlier periods of colonialism, hyper-capitalism, and great power competition. This talk will explore the implications of this, defining and then framing digital modernity in the context of post-Enlightenment history and pluralistic critical theory.
| Awards - Early Career Research
| Paul Bourke Awards
The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research honour Australians in the early part of their career who have achieved excellence in scholarship in one or more fields of the social sciences.
| Re-examining Norms of Good Citizenship When Democratic Values are Under Threat
Special Issue in Political Psychology
This Special Issue aims to bring together normative and empirical approaches on
citizenship, ‘good citizenship’ and norms of ‘good citizenship’ in order to facilitate a
cross-disciplinary dialogue that spans temporal and geographic boundaries. It
welcomes studies of liberal democracies, regions with colonial legacies and countries
with fragile institutions.
Abstract submission deadline: July 15th. Read on... | Call For Papers: Researching Migration Studies: A Symposium on Methodologies
This one-day symposium aims to foster mentorship and collaboration between senior scholars, early career researchers (ECRs) and PhD students in the field of migration studies. PhD students and Early Career Researchers are cordially invited to submit expressions of interest.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 13th June. Read on....
| Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ)
The SDS Board of Directors seeks to appoint a new editor or editorial team for a term of four [2025-2029] years, ideally beginning on November 1, 2025 and ending April 1, 2029. This period includes a 6-month onboarding process under the current editorial team and a 6-month offboarding period with new editors appointed in 2028. The editor or editorial team will work with SDS and the DSQ Editorial Board, and collaborate with The Ohio State University Libraries team. The editor or editorial team will be responsible for putting together a new editorial board under their direction and with input from the SDS Board of Directors.
Expression of interest deadline: August 1st. Read on...
| Forrest Research Foundation Scholarships 2026
The Forrest Fellowships aim to attract early-career researchers from around the world to work in Perth, Western Australia. Applicants should be leading their field of research and be driven by a desire to solve the world’s grand challenges. The Fellowships are aimed at those who have completed their PhD in the last two years (conferred from 1 January 2023) or who will complete it in 2025.
The Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnership Program (JFIPP Research Fellowship)
The Research Fellowship is designed to promote international research and collaborative activities on common policy issues that require cooperation and engagement within and beyond the Indo-Pacific region, with the purpose of building partnerships and intellectual networks in the Indo-Pacific region.
| | Queer Temporalities
Online and in-person at Macquarie University 1-3 October
Exploring the theories and possibilities of queer lives unbeholden to normative narratives of time, memory, success, love, happiness, and family.
| | | Music and Mediation
Hybrid, 9-10 June, The University of Adelaide
Mediation, in all its possible 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 contribute to the many theories and practices around mediation.
The following TASA members are presenting: Devpriya Chakravarty, Penelope Bergen, Vanessa McDermott, Christie Bosworth, and Carl Anacin
Note, the event is free for unsalaried and online delegates
The Western Sydney University Challenging Racism Project (CRP) and University of Melbourne Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative (ARHRI) are holding a cross-disciplinary one-day conference
Friday November 7th, Western Sydney University, Parramatta City campus
The conference will be free to attend.
This event will bring together researchers and practitioners who are undertaking work related to anti-racism. This will be an opportunity for us all to learn more about each other’s work, build networks, and explore the potential for future collaborations.
Abstract submission deadline: August 1st. Read on...
Development in Turbulent Time
20th Annual International & Interdisciplinary Conference of International Partners
University Luigj Gurakuqi Shkoder, ALBANIA
14-15 November 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 14 September. Read on...
Centering Care Across the Life Course
SAVE THE DATE
Concordia University in Montreal Canada
June 17-20, 2026
Submissions open in July and close November 1, 2025.
| Queer Temporalities
Online and in-person at Macquarie University 1-3 October
Exploring the theories and possibilities of queer lives unbeholden to normative narratives of time, memory, success, love, happiness, and family.
Abstract submission deadline: June 8th. 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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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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Watch the very short video (1:30) to learn how to join a thematic group/s.
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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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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 (right click to retrieve the email address). Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning. |
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To access the book discount, click on the following link and then log in to TASAweb: book discount link. |
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