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This week sees the continuation of Social Sciences Week from 8–14 September, a yearly program highlighting the diversity of the arts, humanities and social sciences in Australia. socialsciencesweek.org.au is the link to peruse the remaining events.
We also feature contributions from The Conversation, which continues to provide accessible and independent analysis on issues that matter. Topics from TASA members this week include; the difficulties refugees with disability face in Australia; the rise of “prepping” in Australia and what it signals about resilience and community; the uneven distribution of support in raising children; and fresh perspectives on artificial intelligence. These pieces remind us how sociological analysis, when shared through independent media, can deepen understanding and foster greater empathy across society.
| | Decentring migration scholars, centring paradoxes: Autoethnography as resistance.
Join Dr Sylvia Ang (Monash University) as she explores how paradox-embracing autoethnography—by foregrounding migrant positionality and emotional narrative—challenges colonial binaries and offers a decolonial pathway toward wholeness.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 25 September 2025,
Time: 12:30 PM–1:30 PM (AEDT)
Format: Zoom
Cost: Free
| | | | TASA 2025 Conference Program is now live!
This year, we’re excited to launch our new interactive online program, making it easier than ever to plan your conference experience.
Search by day, track, thematic group, workshop, social function, or keynote, and even download a personalised program containing only the sessions you wish to attend.
Start exploring here:
| | | | TASA Postgraduate Reading Group
Join this supportive community of postgraduate scholars as we explore fresh, challenging readings on decolonial sociology and reflexivity. Guided by peer discussion and expert facilitation, it’s a unique opportunity to hone critical thinking, enrich your research perspective, and engage with cutting-edge scholarship.
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday 16 September 2025,
Time: 10am (AEST)
Format: online via Zoom.
This month's reading Chapter 1 'The Promise' in C. Wright Mills' essential book The Sociological Imagination.
| | | | Contesting Military Identities
Hosted by TASA’s Cultural Sociology Group with UniSA, Flinders, and the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group, this one-day event explores evolving military cultures—through gender, veterans’ pre-/post-service experiences, reconciliation, trauma, and diverse identities.
Featuring expert panels, a report launch, and a networking reception. Registration is now open – don’t miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge sociological insights.
Event Details
Date: Monday 22 September 2025,
Time: 8:30 AM–5:30 PM ACST
Location: in-person in Adelaide and online
Cost: Complimentary
| | | | Non‑religion, Spirituality & Secularism in Public
Hosted by TASA’s Sociology of Religion Thematic Group, this one-day symposium explores Australia’s rising 'nones' (38.9% of the population in 2021) through morning paper presentations, an ECR panel, a workshop on research tools and methods, and an afternoon roundtable and future-focused discussion. Registration is now open—join the conversation shaping the public significance of non‑religiosity.
Event Details
Date: Friday 3 October 2025
Time: 8:45 AM–5:00 PM
Location: The University of Sydney
Cost: TASA Members $35 | Non Members $35
| | | 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
| | | | Researching Migration Studies: A Symposium on Methodologies
This one‑day hybrid symposium will examine methodological innovation and reflexivity in migration research. Tackle complex lived experiences, systemic barriers, ethics, and the digital turn through digital ethnography and platform studies. This mentoring‑focused event invites early‑career researchers and PhD students to submit expressions of interest and attend.
Event Details
Date: Friday 21 November 2025
Time: 9:30am - 5:00pm
Location: Monash University City Campus
Cost: TASA Member In-person - $40 | TASA Member PG, Casual, unwaged In-person- $15 | Non Member In-person $40 | Online - Complimentary
| | | | So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art.
This edition was launched on 26 August 2025 & made by digitising paper collage.
| | | Athena Charanne “Ash” Presto “Why Sociology is Needed in Social Policy” published here:
| Social Sciences Week 2025
8-14 September
| The 80th Anniversary of the End of WWII and Formation of the United Nations
Click here to register: | The School of Social Sciences at University of New South Wales has the pleasure of announcing its program for 'Social Science Week' 2025.
The School’s theme for this week is Critical Communities. We explore the many ways communities enrich and nourish us, and the power of communities coming together in solidarity at times of discord and threat.
TODAY Thursday 11 September
5.30-7.30 UNSW CBD Campus
AI in Government: Risks, Rewards and Future Vision
Panel on AI in government: exploring efficiency, risks, governance, accountability & what leaders need to know for the future. Panellists include Prof. Lyria Bennett Moses (UNSW School of Law, Society & Criminology), Dr Sue Keay (UNSW AI Institute), Ms Lucy Poole (Digital Transformation Agency), Prof. Helen Dickinson (UNSW Canberra School of Business).
The panel is followed by a networking event.
| | Calling for Career Stage Group Members
| We invite you to join either the Student, Early Career or Senior Career Stage Group
You can join a career stage group anytime by logging into your TASA membership profile, navigating to the More Member Options box > clicking/tapping on TASA Groups > Add TASA Groups > scroll to the bottom of the group menu list and click on your choice of Career Stage Group. 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).
| Social Survey Researcher
The School of Art, Communication and English, Part time (0.4FTE) for 12 months.
The School of Art, Communication and English are inviting applications for a Social Survey Researcher to work collaboratively with Professor Terry Flew on his ARC Laureate project of “Mediated Trust: Ideas, Interests, Institutions, Futures”. Click here for information about this project. For general information on the position please Click here.
Applications Close: TODAY Thursday 11 September 2025 11:59 PM
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Suicide prevention and access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans & gender diverse people)
Come and be part of our QMHC funded research project titled: "Preventing suicide, building resilience, and informing transformational change: A multi-study investigation of gender-affirming healthcare access for trans and gender diverse 🏳️⚧️ communities in Queensland”. We are now recruiting a 9-month (0.6FTE - 22.5 hours/week) UniSQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow position attached to this QMHC funded project.
The role entails engaging in qualitative and quantitative data collection with vulnerable communities, produce focused mixed methods research outputs, lead and contribute to high-impact and reputable peer-reviewed journal articles, report writing, collaboratively engage in securing external research funding, and building and maintaining key internal and external relationships.
Applications close TODAY Thursday, 11 September 2025 at 11:30pm (QLD time)
Apply here:
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | | A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment
Tue, 23 Sep, 6pm - 8pm
AESTUTS Green Lecture Theatre-Building 7- Room 025
Ultimo NSW, Australia
Get Tickets (free entry) | | | | Australian Social Cohesion Summit 2025
Event description
The Australian Social Cohesion Summit 2025, hosted by the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute (SFRI), is a landmark biennial event set to take place in Melbourne, to bring a range of participants from across Australia together. Positioned as a key platform for addressing one of Australia’s most pressing challenges—maintaining and strengthening social cohesion—this summit will move beyond data presentation to actively drive dialogue, collaboration, and practical solutions. Through interactive discussions, and scenario-based activities, participants will gain actionable strategies to address social cohesion challenges at both local and national levels.
Monash College City Campus
750 Collins St, Docklands VIC 3008
ahancocks@scanloninstitute.org.au
For a summary of some of the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s work in this space see Dr John van Kooy (2025) Religion and social cohesion in Australia click this link. | | | Whether you are preparing to teach a course, conducting research, or looking to publish your next research paper, Sociology at Sage provides top-quality, easy-to-access materials to help you make the best use of your time and excel in your field.
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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 ...
| “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.
| 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:
- 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
| New: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
The aim of this volume is to engage scholars in an exercise of sociological imagination. What forms might religion assume by the year 2050? How might society itself be reconfigured? Can we envisage the faces of religion in society that will be quite different from what we know today? And crucially, is sociology able to grasp the key processes currently underway that may shape tomorrow’s religious-social landscape?
Proposal submission deadline: September 30. Read on ...
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...
New: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
The guest editors of this journal are seeking submissions for the forthcoming edition ‘Reframing artificial intelligence: Critical perspectives from AI social science’
In an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), public and academic discourse is often dominated by polarised narratives—either heralding AI as a solution to complex problems or warning of its dangers … this Collection invites social science perspectives to advance the study of AI’s sociotechnical, cultural and political dimensions.
Submission deadline: 30 April 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.
| | 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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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.
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... |  | The Jobs & Scholarships Board allows you to view opportunities that TASA Admin and fellow members have posted.
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