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With just two weeks and four days until TASA 2026, preparations are well underway, and registrations have now closed. We look forward to welcoming everyone to the Sunshine Coast later this month!
A reminder that the deadline for submitting agenda items for TASA's Annual General Meeting is this coming Monday, 9 November. If you would like an item included on the agenda, or need to submit an apology, please email the details to Sally Daly at admin@tasa.org.au. Please note that agenda items can only be accepted from members who submit a proposal outlining the item and are available to speak to it, either in person or online, during the AGM.
There is an opportunity for international candidates interested in pursuing a PhD at the Australian National University. Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship contributing to the Cultures of the Cryosphere: Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling project, funded by an ERC Synergy Grant (2024–2030). Applications close 30 November. Read on...
A note from Raewyn Connell: On 3 November, in a ceremony held in the amazing Bismarck-era building of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB for short), I accepted the 2026 Kohli Prize for Sociology. A full house of colleagues, students and friends were present; we had music and flowers. I gave a talk with the ambitious title “In Our Time” that touched on the state of the world, my beginnings in sociology (back in the 1960s-70s, gulp!), and the conditions for social science to flourish in the future. My thanks to the Kohli Foundation, and the many, many people whose love and support over the years has made my work possible.
This week's newsletter also features new publications by TASA members, and we extend a warm welcome to three new members who joined TASA this week.
Warm regards,
TASA Team
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- 6 November - TASA Executive Meeting (Reports)
- 9 November - deadline for AGM agenda item submission
- 15 November - Applications for the JoS ECR Mentoring Program
- 18 November - Remote, Regional & Rural symposium
- 23 November - Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism symposium 'Theorising migration, settlement and diversity in unsettled times'
- 23 November - TASA Executive Meeting (Strategic Planning)
- 23 -27 November - TASA 2026
- 27 November - 2026 TASA Award Announcements
- 1 December - Abstract submissions for the JoS Sociologies for the Future series
- 16 December - Final day to submit 2026 expense claims to TASA
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Journals
Werner, G., Buckle, C., Osbaldiston, N., & Marshall, N. (2026). Liveability, Connectivity, and Scenius: Broken Hill as a Case Study for Reduced Population Churn. Urban Policy and Research, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2026.2748956 [open access].
Munro-Cook, G., Fullagar, S., & Pavlidis, A. (2026). Women para-athletes as space invaders: the affective forces shaping mixed-gender para-sport experiences. Sport in Society, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2026.2750377 [open access].
Engagement
Last Thursday, fellow member Simone Marino was an invited by Dr Christian Mauri to open Politics in the Pub: “Fewer Migrants?” at The Local Hotel, South Fremantle. Simone began with a song on the lira calabrese and a short demonstration of The Sound of Wellbeing: how music and first language can restore presence, dignity and connection for migrants living with dementia.
Simone commented that "Forums like this one help take our research beyond the university and into the community debate on migration. Marino, S. (2026, 27 October) The Sound of Wellbeing: Music and First Language for Migrants Living with Dementia. Invited opening speaker and performer (lira calabrese), Politics in the Pub: ‘Fewer Migrants?’, The Local Hotel, South Fremantle, WA, on the invitation of Dr Christian Mauri; panel with the Hon. Klara Andric MLC, Ervina Ng and Dr Raisa Akifeva (SAGE Futures Lab). Presentation and live demonstration for community leaders, local residents and practitioners, bringing research on music, first language and dementia care into a public civic forum and fostering community awareness of culturally safe support for older migrants.
|  | A warm welcome to our three new TASA members: Emily Bonnily, who is nearing completion of her Honours degree; Norfiza Mohd Zali, a second-year PhD student at the University of Melbourne; and Jing Xu, a first-year PhD student at Griffith University researching women's recreational swimming in China.
We also extend our thanks to all our renewing members. If you have a colleague or student who would like to contribute to the discipline by becoming a TASA member, please do invite them to email membership@tasa.org.au to find out more about membership benefits.
We encourage everyone to add a backup email address to your member profile. This helps ensure you stay connected with TASA when you move institutions or workplaces, and means you can continue to access your membership, the E-Newsletter and other TASA resources wherever your career takes you. If you need assistance adding a back-up email address to your profile, please email Ali at membership@tasa.org.au.
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Hard Copies
New: SAGE has advised TASA that it will no longer distribute hard copies of the Journal of Sociology. While we appreciate that this may be disruptive for members who had opted to receive a hard copy, TASA supports SAGE's decision in consideration of the environmental impact of hard copy distribution. From 2027 onwards, the journal will only be available online as part of TASA membership.
An email advising members of the cessation of hard copy distribution was sent yesterday to those who had opted to receive a hard copy.
Call for papers
Journal of Sociology Serial: Sociologies for the Future
What will be the future of sociology as a discipline? How can we ‘future-proof’ sociology to ensure its relevance in years ahead? Over the decades scholars and pundits have augured the demise of the discipline in the face of big data, political censorship, and most recently AI. Yet sociology has proven to be nimble and adaptive, shapeshifting to ever new social turns. What will be its next moves? Its new challenges? What sociological concerns does the future hold across subfields new and old? And how will we generate the methods and theories needed to meet them? In this serial we invite sociological thinkers to speculate on what the future might look like and require of us and to map out the disciplinary terrains and tools that loom on the horizon.
Papers for the first segment, topics, are due in April 2027.
Abstract submission deadline: 1 December. Read on...
Call for applicants
Journal of Sociology 2027 ECR Mentoring Program: ‘Developing a research article’
The Journal of Sociology (JoS) is launching a new mentoring program for Early Career Academics. This program will provide structured support from the Editors-in-Chief and senior mentors to help ECRs develop a research article for consideration for publication in Journal of Sociology. The program is aimed at scholars who have recently completed a PhD, are precariously employed, and have little access to the support and feedback needed to write articles from their own thesis or related research. The program is designed to support ECRs to publish that first sole-authored contribution to sociology in a discipline-wide journal like JoS.
Application deadline: 15 November.
For the full details, including how to apply, Read on...
Journal of Sociology, 62 (3)
Issue 62:3 includes a Special Issue on 'Towards a pedagogy of care in higher-ed institutions. All articles are available here.
Teaching Notes - call for peer reviewers
If you would be willing to review a future Teaching Notes, please send your details to the Teaching Notes Editors garrity.hill@unimelb.edu.au and nicholas.pendergrast@unimelb.edu.au. Please include your name, email, and 3 topics of interest. Your details will be kept in a secure database to consult for future peer review requests. Of course you can still always decline to review when the request comes if you are too busy at that time.
| Health Sociology Review
Health Sociology Review, Volume 35, Number 2 (July, 2026).
All articles in the latest issue are available here.
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Call for Participants
How older adults from Afghan, Arabic-speaking, Cambodian, Filipino or Punjabi backgrounds in Victoria understand healthy ageing and access health information.
The researchers are looking for people aged 65 or over who are from an Afghan, Arabic-speaking, Cambodian, Filipino or Punjabi background. The findings from this research will help develop better ways to provide health information that is meaningful and accessible to older adults from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Rural Researcher Survey
Researchers are conducting a study to understand the experiences of rural health researchers across Australia. The research aims to explore workforce distribution, working conditions, and the lived experience of conducting research in rural and remote communities.
Participation involves:
• A short online survey (10–15 minutes)
• Optional follow-up interview (45–60 minutes via Zoom)
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Grants
Besample Dissertation Grant 2026–27
The grants support PhD researchers conducting cross-cultural studies beyond traditional Western samples. Applications are welcome from sociology researchers, including those exploring social inequalities, migration, identity, cultural differences, and related topics.
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Community Choir
La Seconda Gioventù (The Second Youth)
TOMORROW 6th November, 1-3pm AWST
City of Fremantle Town Hall, Perth
An Italian community choir concert. This event brings together fellow member Simone Marino's ongoing research and lived community practice.
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Fellowships
Call for Fellowship Nominations
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
The Academy Fellowship currently comprises around 750 Fellows, of whom 38% are women, and 15 identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Fellows of the Academy include Australia’s leading researchers and practitioners across the breadth of social science disciplines, as well as a number of honorary Fellows (those who have made significant contributions to the social sciences beyond research), and overseas Fellows working outside of Australia.
To become a Fellow of the Academy individuals must be nominated by three existing Fellows (a proposer and two seconders), and have demonstrated an outstanding contribution to one or more fields of social science research or practice in Australia. Nominations are considered by the Academy’s disciplinary Panels, by independent assessors, then by the Membership Committee before being put to a vote of Academy Fellows in a general ballot.
| Events
Summits
Australian Social Cohesion
5-6 November, Melbourne
The summit will explore the forces shaping Australia’s social fabric through the theme: Understanding Australia’s Social Fabric: Diversity, Connections, and the Future of Social Cohesion.
Forum & Social Gathering
Researching with(in) regional and rural communities
This forum aims to generate discussion & build community among researchers working with regional, rural, & remote places and communities
13 November, 2:00pm - 4:45pm AEDT
University of Melbourne
Seminars
ANU School of Sociology Seminar Series
The program for the ANU School of Sociology Seminar Series is now online. All seminars are hybrid, with options to join via Zoom. Please visit the School’s Humanitix page, here, to view and register for upcoming seminars.
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.
| Conferences
New: Building Communities for Radical Change
Society of the Study of Social Problems
Chicago, IL, August 5-8, 2027.
Towards a post-sustainability society? New challenges, agendas, and roles in socio-ecological transformation and its research
16-18 March 2027, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Abstract submission deadline: 15 November. Read on....
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Call for Submissions - Special Issues
Epistemic Emotions in and around the law
Frontiers in Sociology of Law
Editors: Renata Grossi, Eve Hanan, Alessandra Minissale, Cecilia Nordquist, Kate Rossmanith.
Law and Emotion scholars have consistently challenged the reason versus emotion divide in our understandings of law and legal processes, scholars have established that emotion in law is methodologically sound, and epistemically significant. More recently an additional tool has emerged to further such investigations: epistemic emotions.
Abstract submission deadline: TODAY 5 November. Read on....
Rethinking Gender Pressures, Education and Wellbeing in Schools
Guest Editors: Associate Professor Garth Stahl (The University of Queensland), Dr. Sarah McDonald (Adelaide University), Dr. Rohann Irving (Flinders University), Professor Murray Drummond (Flinders University)
Gender is a fundamental dimension of child and adolescent development, and growing research highlights the influence of gender norms, expectations, and stereotypes on student wellbeing. Across school, family, peer, and digital contexts, young people encounter gendered pressures that shape their bculine and feminine ideals, gender based harassment, and internalised gender role stress are associated with elevated rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and suicidal ideation.
Manuscript submission deadline: 31 January, 2027. Read on...
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