This Call for papers: Indigenous queer health and wellbeing: Anticolonial meanings and praxis

This special issue will take an anti-colonial approach to the fields of Indigenous Sociology, Queer Theory, Sociology, Health and/or Wellbeing. However, the special issue will not be limited papers to Sociology alone, aiming for a multidisciplinary approach and a critical engagement with the special issue’s overarching theme in different settler colonial contexts, nationally, regionally and internationally.

In keeping with anticolonial praxis, we anticipate papers will centre collective memories, experiences and intergenerational acts of resistance, survivance and thrivance responding to settler colonial attempts at erasure of Indigenous genders and/or sexualities. We are interested in new and emerging critical analyses that centre anticolonial, post-colonial and decolonial positions on Indigenous sexualities and genders, and Indigenous queer health and wellbeing. Also of interest would be contributions that interrogate the broader methodological or theoretical implications in terms of health and wellbeing of (re)claiming Indigenous queer ways of doing, knowing and being as well as new and emerging political identities such as Indigiqueer.

This will facilitate a rich and nuanced interrogation of current perceptions, concerns and challenges regarding Indigenous queer health and/or wellbeing. This will also foreground practices of disruption that reimagine, remake and recreate Indigenous queer spaces and places of belonging that welcome and sustain health and wellbeing beyond modern western narratives. The special issue will be inclusive and open to papers that take a novel or innovative methodological approach and aim to expand the scope and depth of current perspectives on health and/or wellbeing from an Indigenous queer perspective and contributing to Indigenous queer global futures. The editorial team will prioritise papers written by Indigenous queer authors.

The guest editors of this special issue of Health Sociology Review are Professor Corrine T. Sullivan, Associate Professor Madi Day and Dr Kim Spurway.

Submit an abstract or proposal via email: K.Spurway@westernsydney.edu.au

Interested authors should complete submissions by 11:59pm AEST Sunday 12 April 2026. Minimum details required include a title, abstract or proposal of research (250 words), author details, and a short bio for the lead author (50 words). Authors will be notified of the outcome of their proposal by the end of April 2026 and invited to submit a full manuscript for peer review.

If you have any questions, please email Corrinne Sullivan at corrinne.sullivan@westernsydney.edu.au

Health Sociology Review is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness, and medicine. All manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer review by at least two reviewers. Authors may be invited to review another paper in the special issue.

Manuscripts for this special issue are limited to a maximum word limit of 7,500 words, including all text, footnotes and references. More information on instructions for authors, journal aims and scope, and open access options can be viewed on the Health Sociology Review website.

Publication timeline:
• 12 April 2026: Abstract submission deadline
• 30 April 2026: Invitation to authors to submit full manuscript
• 14 Aug 2026: Submission deadline for full manuscripts
• 2 Oct 2026: Reviews sent to Authors for revision
• 22 Jan 2027: Authors resubmit revised papers
• 8 March 2027: Manuscripts reviewed and finalised
• 12 April 2027: Any second reviews finalised
• 14 May 2027: All manuscripts sent to production
• July 2027: Publication of special issue

Call for new editorial team: 2027 - 2029

Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal Health Sociology Review (HSR) for the three-year term 2027 - 2029. 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.

Overview

About Health Sociology Review: HSR is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness and medicine. Published three times per year, the journal prioritises original research papers and special issues on matters of central importance to health sociology and related fields. Submissions must make a clear contribution to sociological inquiry relevant to health, but may be informed by conceptual and empirical debates from a broader range of health and social sciences. For further information please see the journal’s web site: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhsr20/current

Term of editorship: Previously, the normal editorship term was 4 years. In 2025, TASA's Executive decided on a three-year term, moving forward. 

Editorship requirements: Commitment to produce 3 issues of the journal per year, including book reviews and special issue, and meet the publishing deadlines; commitment to independent peer review procedures that ensure a fair and balanced assessment of material submitted for publication. The HSR Editorial team and TASA Executive shall approve any substantial changes to current review procedures.

HSR International Editorial Board: The new editorial team will need to establish a new International Editorial Board. Their establishment shall be in accord with the principles and Constitution of the Association, in particular each Board shall have, to the extent possible, gender balance.

Financial support: TASA provides financial support to the editor/s for clerical assistance and other associated costs which cannot be underwritten by the host’s workplace.

Contractual obligations: The editors must abide by the contractual agreement between TASA and the publisher Taylor and Francis (a copy will be supplied to the successful applicants).

Reporting requirements: The editor/s shall provide regular managerial reporting to the Executive Committee (3-4 per year) and an annual report. One member of the editorial team becomes an ex officio member of TASA's Executive. This role can be alternated each year.

Removal of editorship: The Executive Committee maintains the right to remove the editorship if essential criteria are consistently not met as outlined in this document.

Application process: Applicants must address the guidelines and essential and desirable criteria in this document. Applicants are encouraged to consult with the current editor, Katherine Kenny, before making a submission. Applications should be submitted to TASA's office, and applicants should indicate their intention to apply by email to admin@tasa.org.au.

Application guidelines

The application should include:

• A 3-page CV for each team member.
  
• A maximum of 6 pages outlining the following information: Editorial team information: Name, affiliation, and proposed role for each team member. The team may be structured in a range of ways, with one lead Editor or 2-3 Joint Lead Editors, and several Associate Editors. Please provide justification for your proposed team structure.

• Statement of experience for each team member: The statement should outline research, publication, and editorial experience.
  
• Vision statement: A statement outlining the team’s proposed goals and innovations over the period of their tenure.
  
• Budget and institutional support: The budget should include evidence of institutional support. The Executive Committee must be assured that there is sufficient institutional support for the successful conduct and management of the journal. If the application is successful, this institutional support will be ratified or confirmed by the HoD/HoS and Dean of the relevant faculty. These reassurances and commitments would be required prior to any transfer of the Journal’s editorship.
  
• Cross-institutional arrangements: Applications from consortia based at two or more workplaces must demonstrate how they will work effectively.
  

Essential Criteria

Prospective editors are required to:

1. Be current financial members of TASA and maintain their membership throughout their editorship term.
   
2. Provide evidence of an established record of scholarship, including publication in refereed journals.
   
3. Provide evidence of editorial and journal experience (indicated by participation in activities such as published articles and book reviews, reviewing submitted papers, and editorial board experience)
   
4. Provide evidence of organisational abilities.
   

Note: The editorial team can contain up to one early career researcher who does not yet fully meet the requirements of essential criteria 2 and 3, but who shows the clear potential to do so. All members of the editorial team need to be TASA members.

Desirable criteria

1. Location of journal: The management of the journal should ideally be located in a University with an academic unit in which sociology teaching and/or research is a focus.
   
2. Commitment to TASA: Acceptance of editorship signals a commitment to the principles of TASA as set out in its Constitution. While maintaining its editorial independence, the editors must ensure that the journal broadly reflects the interests of TASA and its members.
   

Selection process

• Submission due date: Applications are due by Monday 22nd June, 2026.
  
• Determination: Applications will be reviewed and determined by TASA's Executive Committee at its mid-year meeting.
  
• Outcome: TASA President, Kim Humphery, will inform all applicants of the outcome in August,2026.
  

Further information can be obtained from the current Editor in Chief, Katherine Kenny (katherine.kenny@sydney.edu.au), as well as the current Managing Editor, Sally Daly.

Applications must be submitted by email to TASA Admin admin@tasa.org.au.

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