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Welcome to this week’s newsletter. Inside, you’ll find some members' new publications, details about the call for the next Health Sociology Review editorial team (2027–2029), and a list of seven new members who have recently joined our community. Note, next week’s newsletter will be our final edition for 2025; if you would like to include an item, please email the details to TASA Admin.
We’re glad to have you with us and hope you find this issue meaningful and engaging.
Sally, Penny and Ali
TASA Team
| We extend a warm welcome to our newest members: Bhanu Bhatia, Natasa Adamovic, Morag Kelly, Dorothy Drabarek, Jennifer Ayton, Howard N. Sercombe and Leonard D'Cruz. We’re glad you’re here. We hope you find this newsletter to be a place where you can discover insights, stay informed, and find ideas that support your own goals and interests. Thank you for joining our community.
| Health Sociology Review: Call for new editorial team
| As a reminder, applications are invited for the editorship of Health Sociology Review (HSR) for the three-year term 2026 - 2029. Note, the original call listed a four-year term, but for a variety of reasons TASA's Executive decided at their most recent meeting to reduce the term to three years.
Transition arrangements will begin later in 2026, although the content for the first issue of 2027, and possibly the second, will be finalised by the out-going editors.
The application deadline is Monday 22nd June, 2026.
The full details of the call are available on TASAweb here.
| Francisco-Menchavez, V., & Williams Veazey, L. (Eds.). (2025). Communities of Care in Migration. Palgrave Macmillan. | This interdisciplinary edited volume for scholars of migration, transnationalism and care provides a unique, praxis-informed perspective on the often-unrecognised labour of care given and received between migrants. Organised under the concept of “Communities of Care in Migration”, this book explores local and transnational relationships and practices of care as collectively produced and enacted in the lives of migrants in diverse contexts, including the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Asia, Europe, and online. Leading and emerging scholars, community organisers and practitioners in migrant-focused NGOs from across the world draw on a range of methodological techniques, including qualitative interviews, ethnography, policy analysis, participatory action research and content analysis, to offer a fresh look on migration in action. Read on...
| | | Sivaji, Saambavi: Archiving the Margins: Art, Memory, and Resistance at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Sri Lanka, in Malreddy, Pavan Kumar, Schulze-Engler, Frank and Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin (Eds.): Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025 (Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, Volume 3), p. 193–211. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1559.c24297
| Shiva Chandra, Alex Broom, Damien Ridge, Bridget Haire, Michelle Peterie, Catriona Bradshaw, Jennifer Broom, Lise Lafferty, Carla Treloar, Tanya Applegate, Rebecca Guy. 2026. “ Mediated Urgency: Exploring GBTQ+ Perceptions of Antibiotic-Resistant Sexually Transmitted Infections,” Sociology of Health & Illness: e70137. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70137.
Thorneycroft R (2025) A response to Watermeyer and Harvey (2025). Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 27(1): 741-745. https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1396 (Open Access).
| Research Fellow
Australian National University
Part time (0.8FTE), Fixed Term (up to 33 months)
Research Fellow, Social and Ethical Dimensions of Applied Cryobiology
Australian National University
The funding that supports this project has an expected duration of 3.5 years.
Research Fellow, Ethnography and Sociology of the Artificial Cryosphere
Australian National University
The funding that supports this project has an expected duration of 5 years.
| Introducing Special Sections
Following the recent launch of a new paper type for Journal of Sociology, Teaching Notes, the JoS team are launching a new feature called Special Sections. They invite proposals at any time for thematic sections that consist of three or four standard 8,000 word papers, framed with a 4,000 word introduction. This will be an ideal format for developing and publishing outcomes from, for instance, a conference panel, a smaller research network, or papers in conversation around a hot topic. Special Sections are designed to be a smaller, more manageable version of a special issue and will feature in standard issues along with regular papers.
If you would like to pitch a special section, please write firstly to our Managing Editor, Dr Amy Vanderharst.
| The latest special issue of the Journal of Sociology explores ‘Equity in the creative industries’ in the context of a changing employment landscape in Australia. Inequality is central to understanding the social consequences and distribution of cultural work. The COVID-19 pandemic, rise of digital cultural production, growth of media sharing platforms, and instability of changes in government (and policy) have both disrupted and re-organised cultural work. The collection of articles aims to develop debate on competing imaginaries of the lived experiences of workers, and to shed light on the struggle and complexities of contemporary creative labour.
All articles have been published on open access and are available here.
| Other Events, News & Opportunities
| Cross-Class Friendship: Call for Research Participants
| Fellow member Rose Butler (Deakin) has recently commenced a research project on cross-class friendship with Sam Friedman (LSE) and is currently recruiting participants. Rose is looking for interviewees who have a close friendship with someone whose class background differs to their own and are willing to talk about this friendship. All interviews are treated as confidential and last between 60-90 minutes. They can take place over Zoom or in person and participants receive a fifty-dollar gift card as a token of appreciation.
| International Center for the Sociology of Religion (ICSOR)
The grants provide residence in Rome for the duration of a week or more to a maximum of two months. The ICSOR apartment (all-inclusive, except for food and insurance) and library will be available to awardees free of charge.
Application deadline: March 30th, 2026. Read on...
| Newcastle Youth Studies Centre (NYSC) 2026 Online Seminar Series
The full 2026 program for the Newcastle Youth Studies Centre’s online seminar series is now out (see below), you can check out each seminar, and register for them, at the NYSC Eventbrite page here.
Note, you can watch the full 2025 recordings at the NYSC's YouTube playlist here.
| The Sorrento Creative Writing Prize
The Prize celebrates the annual Sorrento Writers Festival and its mission to bring writers and readers together.
The winner will receive $5,000 and their writing featured at the 2026 Sorrento Writers Festival and at www.writing.org.au
| Edited Volume - call for contributions
| Constructive Alcohol: production, consumption, everything else (working title)
The book will be a response to Mary Douglas’ ground-breaking work Constructive Drinking (1987). Published nearly 40 years ago, Constructive Drinking continues to be a touchstone for research that foundationally acknowledges that ‘drinking’ is always socio-culturally constructed, historically contingent and morally relativistic. Douglas and her contributors firmly rejected approaches that assumptively problematized or pathologized alcohol and instead critically analysed benefits ascribed to alcohol in different social settings. Moreover, our proposed book comes at a time when alcohol is subject to multiple criticisms and challenges, not least of which are the World Health Organisation’s repeated declarations that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption; the impacts of climate change; and declining consumption globally.
| New: Religion as a Weapon of War: in the past, present and future
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
June 22-26. 2026, Skopje, North Macedonia
Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2026. Read on...
Children’s rights under pressure in a digital world
ICA Pre-conference 2026
BSA Annual Conference 2026: 75 Years of Sociology
University of Edinburgh, UK
8-10 April 2026
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.
| | Reimagining Boyhood: Addressing the wellbeing of boys and young men through education
21 January, 2026
The University of Queensland
Key Speakers include fellow member Garth Stahl.
This event brings together leading international voices, cutting-edge research, and the shared commitment of schools and educators to shape the future of boys’ education, exploring identity, wellbeing, belonging, and learning in boyhood. With keynote speakers, expert panels, and interactive workshops, this full-day program offers evidence-based insights and practical strategies that educators can apply directly.
| | | Special Issues - call for submissions
| Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences
If you would like to propose a special issue for their collection, please feel free to discuss this with the Managing Editors. If your ideas are further advanced, you are welcome to send them a one-to-two page proposal.
Managing Editors:
- Fran Collyer, University of Wollongong Australia, Fran@francollyer.com
- Kristoffer Kropp, Roskilde University, Denmark, kkropp@ruc.dk
You can find more information about our journal here.
Professionalism beyond the Global North: A Space for New Theoretical Developments
Current Sociology Monographs
This issue invites contributions that advance sociological research on professions, professionalism, and expertise in the Global South—broadly defined to include Africa, Asia, Latin America, Southern and Eastern Europe, and Oceania
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. 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. Read on...
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. Read on...
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The November 2024 - November 2026 Executive Team can be viewed on TASAweb here.
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