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Today's TASA Thursday event will start at 1pm, AEST (previously listed as a 12:30pm start time). The Webinar will be hosted by Roger Wilkinson with Alan Petersen presenting on "Loneliness and Digital Media: A Sociological Agenda", via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87109169257.
In case you're not aware, the Executive is seeking expressions of interest to edit the Journal of Sociology for the 2021 - 2024 term. The current Editors in Chief, Kate Huppatz and Steve Matthewman, would be happy to have a chat with you about the role. Kate and Steve have succesfully managed the journal whilst based at different universities, in different countries so they comment about that aspect of journal editorship as well.
Expression of interest deadline: June 1. For the full details, read on...
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This collection moves beyond the classic sociological focus on societal reactions and the social construction of disease. The reappearance of infectious disease in an intensely globalised arena, marked by supra-national as well as national and local actors, has raised many other issues, including the impact of scientific modalities on uncertainty and risk, the interplay of public health and national security, the dynamics of health governance, and the gendered division of caring labour. It goes without saying that each of these, in turn, raises provocative questions for policy and implementation. In the 21st century, a focus on pandemics and emerging infectious disease gives new insight into evolving social structures and processes. This collection challenges sociologists to contribute further to the public and policy agenda – and questions the narrow thinking that would seek to ‘leave it all to biomedical science’. (p. 173)
(Introduction: Why a Sociology of Pandemics? Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman, and Karen Staniland).
Rapid Peer Support session hosted by Ash Watson, Thursday June 4, 12:30PM - 1:30PM AEST
Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher sessionhosted by Ben Lohmeyer: Thursday June 11, 12:30PM - 1:30PM AEST, via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83569746464.“Pitching your research in the context of COVID-19”. This session will be suitable for postgraduates and early career researchers.
Casual Catch-up with 2017 Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology Award recipient Johanna Wyn, Thursday June 25, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST, via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84402032254. “Implications of COVID-19 for researching young people”.
Rapid Peer Support session hosted by Ash Watson, Thursday July 2, 12:00PM - 1:00PM AEST
| A warm congratulations is extended to Hannah McCann who's book "Queering Femininity" has been set as a core reading (the whole book!!!) for a women's and gender studies course on critical femininities at a US university.
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Dan Woodman (2020) Generation COVID. Seriously Social, May 15. Note, this is a new 'pandemic' podcast series hosted by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Each episode comes with further reading, a transcript and a ‘Corona Care’ package of related books or videos.
| | Lawrence, G., Sippel, S. and Larder, N. (2020) State-led and Finance-backed Farming Endeavours: Changing Contours of Investment in Australian Agriculture, in H. Bjørkhaug, P. McMichael and B. Muirhead (eds) Food or Finance? The Role of Cultures, Values and Ethics in Land Use Negotiations, Toronto University Press, Toronto, pp. 150-177, ISBN-10: 1487503121 | Botfield, J., Newman, C.E., Bateson, D., Haire, B., Estoesta, J., Foster, C., Moore, J. S. (2020). Young migrant and refugee people’s views on unintended pregnancy and abortion in Sydney. Published online in Health Sociology Review on 20 May 2020.
Omori, M., Jayasuriya J., Schere, S., Dow, B., Vaughan, M. and Savvas, S. (2020) The language of dying: Communication about end-of-life in residential aged care, Death Study, DOI:10.1080/07481187.2020.1762263
| Note, all 2020 Awards will be presented during an online event later this year. | Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology Award | This award is made to a TASA member who has demonstrated outstanding, significant and sustained service to Australian sociology over many years. While not necessarily a lifetime achievement award, candidates for the Distinguished Service Award would usually be nearing the end of their careers.
For the full details, please see the award web page here.
Nominations close May 31st. | Outstanding Service to TASA Award | This honour is accorded to a TASA member who has demonstrated an outstanding level of participation in and promotion of TASA over a number of years. There are many ways in which this can occur, but in all cases the quality of the service is the determining criterion, rather than the quantity alone.
For the full details, please see award page here.
Nominations close May 31st. | This award celebrates outstanding contributions to enhancing the pedagogy, practice or outcomes of teaching and learning sociology in Australia.It recognises contributions at the disciplinary level (rather than acknowledging excellence in teaching within the classroom or institutions).
For the full details, please see award page here.
Nominations close June 15. | Sociology in Action Award | This scholarship seeks to encourage the participation of sociologists working outside academe (in areas such as private industry, government and non-government organisations, and private contract and consultancy work) with The Australian Sociological Association (TASA). The TASA Executive would like to encourage non-academic members who have conducted applied research or written sociological papers on their work to apply for the scholarship.
For the full details, please see the award page here.
Nominations close June 15. | Early Career Researcher - Best Paper Prize | The TASA Prize for the most distinguished peer-reviewed article published by an Early Career Researcher is an annual process that uses academic peer review to select a paper of outstanding quality published in any journal during the previous three calendar years (ie the 2020 Award will assess papers that were published from 2017 – 2019).
For the full details, please see award page here.
Nominations close June 30. | Postgraduate Impact & Engagement Award | This new annual award recognises the impact and engagement of a Postgraduate TASA member’s scholarship that is of high social value to Australian society and/or sociology. This award is not limited to publications but also to outstanding contributions in teaching, community work and non-traditional academic outputs. The award seeks to value and encourage an understanding of scholarship and impact that extends beyond publication and citation metrics. This award draws on the Boyer model of scholarship recognising the value of Discovery, Integration, Application and Teaching.
For the full details, please see the award page here.
Nominations close July 31st.
| New: How can social theory make sense of living in this time of crisis?
Social Theory thematic group special online workshop
Keynotes: Deborah Lupton (UNSW), Craig Calhoun (Arizona State), Peter Vale (Johannesburg), Peter Beilharz (Sichuan)
November 27, 2020
Two bursaries are available for TASA members: 1 x $500 HDR bursary and 1 x $500 ECR bursary (must be unwaged/casual).
In case you missed it, the recording of the NextGenMEM 'Conversations About Global Partnerships in Comparative Research' can be accessed via TASA's YouTube Channel.
| Call for a new editorial team 2021 - 2024 | The TASA Executive seeks to appoint a new editorial team for the Journal of Sociology for the four-year term 2021–2024. The term of the current editors expires at the end of 2020, although copy for the first issue of 2021 will be organised.The journal receives financial and administrative assistance from TASA and from the publisher, Sage. Manuscript submission is done on-line through ScholarOne.
All members of the editorial team (Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors) must be TASA members and ideally will be located within a department of sociology or a School/unit that offers a major sequence of sociology, including doctoral studies. The Executive are willing to consider applications from an editorial team at a single university or a consortia of staff at two or more universities. Such consortia will be required to demonstrate that they have the capability to work effectively across locations. TASA will provide the Managing Editor with a complimentary TASA membership.
Expression of interest deadline: June 1. For the full details, read on... | Special Issue 2022: Call for Guest Editors | Kate Huppatz and Steve Matthewman invite expressions of interest to guest edit the 2022 Special Edition of JoS. Special Editions may address any sociological theme that is likely to be of interest to the Journal’s readership. Papers featured in special editions are subject to the normal process of peer review. Selection of papers and coordination of the peer review process will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors. Papers may be selected via invitation or a general ‘call for papers’ (organised by the guest editors). Final copy for this special edition is due on the third of September, 2021 and publication will be in March 2022.
Expressions of interest deadline: June 22. Read on...
| Call for papers: November 2021 Special Issue
Progressing critical posthuman perspectives in health sociology | Sociologists have increasingly engaged with more-than-human understandings and posthuman perspectives on health and illness to move beyond dualistic understandings of the biological and the social, agency and structure, digital and physical. With a focus on ontology, health sociologists have fruitfully engaged with posthumanism to elucidate how health processes and experiences materialise through human-non-human relationality as biosocial environments.
This Special Issue aims to consolidate, challenge and expand the contribution of posthuman thought to health sociology. Special Issue editors Kim McLeod & Simone Fullagar are seeking empirical and theoretical contributions which progress key themes currently emerging in the field.
To be considered for submission and review, please email an abstract of 250-300 words to Kim McLeod by 15 June 2020. Abstracts will be reviewed by 30 June 2020. A limited number will be selected to go forward for peer review. If selected to go forward, contributors must undertake to submit their piece for peer review by 1 February 2021.
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| | | | The Scholarships Board enables you to view available scholarships that our members have posted. Like the Jobs Board, as a member, you can post scholarship opportunities directly from within your membership profile screen. | | | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | The Monash Migration & Inclusion Centre online seminar: Dr Francesco Ricatti - 'Youth in the city: one place many cultures'
Tuesday 26 May 12-1pm (AEST)
For details, and to register: Read on... | Social Control Policies - Governing Human Lives and Health in Times of Pandemics
300 words suggestions to be submitted by 31st of May.
Chapters will be due by 30th of November, 2020. Read on... | Art/Research International special issue: Fiction as Research – Writing Beyond the Boundary Lines
| Guest edited by Dr Ash Watson and A/Prof Jessica Smartt Gullion
(Submission due June 1; Anticipated publication date February 2021)
This special edition calls for submissions that progress the use and understanding of fiction in/as research. We seek authors who consider fiction in ways that move beyond translation, beyond instruction, and beyond utility. We invite contributions on fiction as research or fiction within the research process. We are particularly interested in ambitious pieces that attempt both – that creatively explore the complex relationships between practice (or method), form, theory, and context. That is, we seek pieces on or of fiction that offer critical analyses and consider the affordances and limitations of fiction in doing this work. Full call at https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/announcement/view/351 | ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme
| This publishing subsidy is designed to assist early career researchers working in Australian Studies.
International Australian Studies Association
Up to $1,500 in Award money
Closing Date: 5pm (EST), 30 June. Read on...
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