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Welcome to the latest edition of our newsletter!
We’re delighted to introduce two new members to our community: Graham Young and Valeria Cotronei-Baird.
In this issue, we also highlight a new job opportunity and recent member publications.
Thank you for being part of this growing and dynamic network. We invite you to explore this edition of the newsletter.
| Kamran, R., & Burns, E. A. (2025). Evaluating Google Scholar’s Effectiveness in Researching Academic Women’s Experiences of Bullying Compared to Traditional Databases. International Journal of Qualitative Research, 5(1), 60-72. DOI:10.47540/ijqr.v5i1.1937 (open access).
O’Donnell, S., Ridgway, A., & Borges Jelinic, A. (2025). Ubiquitous waiting: migrant women, temporariness, and waiting as an affective atmosphere. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. (OnlineFirst). https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2536165
| | The next round of TASA’s Thematic Group (TG) funding is now open, with applications due by September 1st.
While it's our amazing TG conveners who submit the applications, members are encouraged to reach out and share ideas for events, collaborations, or activities you’d like to see happen in your TG.
Now’s the perfect time to help shape your group’s plans for the first half of 2026! | | | The Urban Sociology Thematic Group invites scholars, practitioners, and students to join us on Wednesday, 9 October at The University of Sydney for an engaging symposium exploring the theme Knowing the City – Movements, Epistemologies, and Visions.
Event Details
Date: 9th October
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm (AEDT)
Location: University of Sydney
Cost: In-person $30 | Online $20
| | | | Calling for Career Stage Group Members
| Are you in the early stages of your sociology career?
We invite you to be part of an inaugural, supportive community that understands the unique challenges and opportunities that come with this exciting but often uncertain time.
Convened by fellow member Alexandra James, TASA’s Early Career Stage Group is a space for connection, collaboration, and support. Whether you're navigating the post-PhD transition, juggling multiple roles, developing your track record, or exploring work in different sectors, this group is here for you.
You can join the group anytime by logging into your TASA membership profile, navigate to the More Member Options box, click/tap on TASA Groups, then Add TASA Groups, and then scroll to the bottom of the group menu list and click on CSG Early Career. If you need help, we’ve put together some handy pictorial instructions to guide you through the process that are available here. You can also reach out to Ali Smith, TASA's Membership Director, for assistance (membership@tasa.org.au).
Let’s build a strong network together, your early career journey doesn’t have to be a solo one.
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New: Level B Research Fellow
Western Sydney University
The Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University is advertising a two-year Level B Research Fellow position for a project investigating how NSW government agencies use and find useful the data they collect about their community engagement programs.
The position is with fellow member Philippa Collin, and others, at the Young and Resilient Research Centre. It is a collaborative co-designed research-industry project funded and supported through the NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre.
Application deadline: next Wednesday August 13th. Read on ...
Research Assistant Professor
The University of Hong Kong
You would be involved in the research team of the Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project (www.JCECC.hk) to work on cutting-edge research and evaluation studies in End-of-Life Care (EoLC).
| | Scholarship Opportunities | Queer Influencer Cultures in East Asia,
Jointly supervised by fellow member Hao Zheng (Co-Supervisor) & Crystal Abidin (Principal Supervisor)
The preferred candidate may be considered for an RTP scholarship.
Expressions of Interest deadline: 18 August. Read on...
Reproductive Justice PhD Scholarship
Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne
The candidate's research project proposal should be interdisciplinary in nature and include supervisors from at least two different disciplines (e.g. sociology and obstetrics and gynaecology) at the University of Melbourne. Cross-Faculty supervision arrangements are encouraged but not essential. Please get in touch if you would like some assistance in identifying a second supervisor.
Application deadline: August 11. Read on...
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | Taylor & Francis are offering free access to 40+ Sociology Journals around the theme of 'Sociology at times of crisis' until 31st January 2026. Read on ...
| Erosion, Crisis and Renewal: Care and Reconnection in the Anthropocene
Monday 18 August, 2025 | 9.15am - 3.30pm
RD Watt Seminar Room 203, University of Sydney Camperdown Campus
As a global community, we currently face myriad crises. Cascading health and economic problems, rising ecological toxicities, the spectre of conflict, and fetishised but potentially dangerous new technologies pervade our present and raise the prospect of multiple future reckonings. These reckonings will require that we engage creatively with complexity, embracing interconnectedness and multidisciplinary problem-solving to an unprecedented extent and in ways that traverse radically different scales, from the microbiological to the planetary.
Founding Stories, Forging Communities, Feminist Futures: Nurturing Feminist Histories in Precarious Times
A Joint Australian Women’s History Network Symposium and Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
24th-25th November, University of Melbourne
Abstract submission deadline: August 29th. Read on...
| Catherine Thomson, a Master of Archaeological and Evolutionary Science (Advanced), is currently completing a research project ‘Improving Skeletal Stewardship: Exploring Ethical Best Practices in the Care of Anatomical Teaching Collections in Australian Institutions’ on the ethics of holding and using non-Indigenous human skeletal remains in Australia.
Catherine is inviting you to participate in an anonymous, online survey. This survey will explore 1) your engagement with current ethical guidelines for the management of anatomical teaching collections 2) whether you think these guidelines are appropriate in an Australian context, and 3) what you think good ethical guidelines should involve. This data will be used to help develop broad preliminary guidelines for the respectful management of skeletal collections in Australia.
The survey will close on 11 August 2025 and will take 15-30 minutes to complete.
You can access the survey here.
| “Whose paradigm counts? The unheard experiences and strategies of CEALD mental healthcare professionals in providing culturally responsive and safe care to CEALD patients in Australia.”
The project aims to support and add insights through our voices, experiences and knowledge of how we (health professionals in the mental health space) provide culturally appropriate care strategies that could inform how to care for our culturally, ethnically, linguistically or racially diverse communities in Tasmania.
Calling for Tasmanian health professionals working in the mental health space from cultural, ethnically and linguistically diverse backgrounds. If you are interested in having a conversation to discuss the research and/or would like to participate in the individual online interview, please contact Anita via email: anita.ogbeide@utas.edu.au or call: +61 3 6430 5297. You will be compensated with a $30 e-voucher for participation in the research.
| | Fellow member Sarah Alzoubi is calling for participants for their PhD project that is investigating the impacts and experiences of Islamophobia on Australian Muslim women in Sydney while also analysing key demographic and geographic variations in that daily experience.
Participants need to be over the age of 18. The survey takes approximately 25 minutes to complete.
You can take the survey here.
| | | Supporting academics with inclusive & equitable curricula, teaching and learning
Call for Participation. A National Survey on Inclusive and Equitable Teaching in Higher Education
Academic teaching staff at Australian higher education institutions are invited to contribute to a national study exploring how institutions support inclusive and equitable teaching, learning, curriculum, and assessment.
The survey is open to academic teaching staff across Australian higher education institutions. It explores:
- Understandings of equity and inclusion in teaching and learning
- Inclusive curriculum and assessment practices, and
- Experiences with professional development related to equity and inclusion
Participation involves completing a short, anonymous 10-15 minute survey, available here.
| People Places Prize - Creativity & Innovation
The People Places Prize is about creative and innovative ideas for urban environments. The Prize is open to Australian citizens and residents aged 18 and over. The winner will receive $10,000 and their ideas featured in an exhibition and on www.peopleplaces.org.au.
Creative and innovative ideas for the Prize can be in any (or combination) of ffour areas:
- The Arts
- Green spaces
- Building design
- Disability access
Australian Human Rights Awards
The Awards honour and celebrate diverse human rights heroes and significant achievements in protecting and promoting human rights in Australia.
| Book Chapters - call for expressions of interest
| Future of Work and Care (part of TASA SWLE thematic group)
Seeking proposals for empirical or theoretical papers that address the issues related to the future of work and care.
Please submit an abstract (250- 300 words, with 5 keywords) that briefly summarises the theoretical/methodological framework, foregrounding the overall argument and including some references to key works, along with a short biography (up to 100 words).
Abstract submission deadline: August 15. Read on...
| 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:
- 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...
| Special Issues - call for proposals
| Journal of Sociology
The Journal of Sociology invites expressions of interest to guest edit a Special Issue for publication in 2027. Proposals are welcome on any sociological theme likely to appeal to our international readership, particularly those that showcase vibrant research from Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Guest editors will coordinate the call for papers, peer review process, and editorial work to a March 2026 submission deadline.
Proposal submission deadline: 15 September, 2025. Read on...
Sociological Research Online
Sociological Research Online welcomes proposals for the next special issue. The proposed special issue should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates by bringing together conceptually, empirically and/or methodologically innovative interventions within a specific topic area.
Proposal submission deadline: 24 September. Read on...
| Special Issues - call for submissions
| Revisiting Janet Wolff: Affinities between Art History and Sociology
Cultural Sociology’s special issue, inspired by the career and work of Janet Wolff, seeks to articulate the affinities between sociological and art historical approaches to the study of artworks and art making, such that a disciplinary divide holds.
Abstract submission deadline: 16 September. Read on...
The Normative Turn in Sociology. Opening the Black Box
Sociology’s special issue hopes to lay the groundwork for a sociology of normativity; that is, a form of sociology (be it “critical” or otherwise) which is expressly normative. Editors are looking for contributions, theoretical and/or empirical, that engage with the question of normativity in sociology.
Paper submission deadline: 22 January 2026. Read on...
Earning while Learning: Experiences, patterns and the political economy of working students
Work, Employment and Society’s new special issue aims to interrogate and fundamentally reconceptualize the relationship between earning and learning, bringing together different disciplinary approaches to interrogate student work and the global political economy that shapes it.
Paper submission deadline: 27 February 2026. Read on...
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Early Career Work and Family Fellowships
The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes and integrate them within the WFRN research community.
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Anthrozoology as International Practice (AIP2025)
A Student Conference in Human-Animal Studies,
75 Years of Sociology
British Sociological Association
8-10 April 2026
University of Edinburgh, UK
Abstract submission deadline: October 3rd. Read on...
2026 Centering Care Across the Life Course
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
June 17-20, 2026, Concordia University Montreal Canada.
Abstract submission deadline: October 1st. Read on...
Predoctoral Preconference
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
The Predoctoral Preconference will provide workshops intended to help graduate students form meaningful connections with diverse scholars, learn about publication strategies, as well as how to engage with stakeholders such as organisational leaders or policy advocates.
Refugee Trauma Recovery in Resettlement
Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT)
Bringing together leading researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and community advocates from across Australia and New Zealand, the conference will address the complex and critical needs of refugees who have experienced torture and trauma. The event will serve as a vital platform for sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and promoting best practices in the field of refugee mental health and psychosocial support.
Submission deadline: August 31st. 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. Read on... | | 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.
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In 4 easy steps, you can upload job & scholarship opportunities from your member's profile screen. For instructions, visit here.
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The November 2024 - November 2026 Executive Team can be viewed on TASAweb here.
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