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Date: 11/11/2020
Subject: TASA Members' Newsletter November 12
From: TASA



Dear ~~first_name~~,  
 
If you know of any employment opportunities relevant to our membership, please email the details to Sally in TASA Admin so that they can be shared in subsequent newsletters. 
 
If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher session featuring TASA Secretary Ash Watson speaking on Autoethnography, you can catch up with that session here. 
 
Today's TASA Thursdays Webinar will be hosted by Roger Wilkinson with speaker James Arvanitakis on Living Blue in a Deep Red State: A sociological analysis of the 2020 election after a year spent in Wyoming. November 12, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDTvia Zoomhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81061222922?pwd=MHBEWW91UTdrNWZ1cGI2M0VkTnovUT09. Meeting ID: 810 6122 2922. Passcode: 213883
 
Next week's TASA Thursdays event will be a Casual Chat with Distinguished Sociologist Sharyn Roach Anleu, November 19, 12:30pm - 1:30pm, AEDTvia Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87109169257?pwd=U25GUTlSN2RRZUc1N2NXRy96N0RCQT09
Meeting ID: 871 0916 9257. Passcode: 828554
We're excited to advise that 221 people have registered for TASA 2020 so far. If you have registered yet, please do so before this coming Monday November 16th to allow time for us to set up your access to the conference platform. 
 
 
 
Annual Thematic Groups Conveners Meeting
Please note: the email invitation disseminated recently regarding the Annual Thematic Groups Conveners meeting incorrectly had two dates listed. The meeting is set for Tuesday November 24th 12:00pm - 1:00pm AEDT. 
 
 

Congratulations
Our warm congratulations are extended to fellow member JaneMaree Maher et al. for winning the Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice Best Paper Award for Lone Wolf Terrorism Through a Gendered Lens: Men Turning Violent or Violent Men Behaving Violently?

TASA Thursdays - Save the date

Due to TASA 2020, there will be no TASA Thursdays event on November 23rd. 
 
Webinar hosted by Roger Wilkinson with Adele Pavlidis, Catherine Palmer & Suzanne Schrijnder each presenting on their area of expertise to the topic, 'Sport, leisure and the newnormal: sociological insights for developing an agenda for change'. December 1012:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT, via Zoom. Access details to be confirmed. 
 

Members' Publications
 
In case you are not aware, if you would like to list your latest publications in our newsletter please email the details to Sally in TASA Admin. 
 

Book Chapters

Robards, B., Byron, P., Churchill, B., Hanckel, B., Vivienne. S. (2020) ‘Tumblr as a Space of Learning, Connecting, and Identity Formation for LGBTIQ+ Young People’’ In A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, edited by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, Indira Neill Hoch. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11537055
 

Journal Articles

Poynting, S. (2020) ‘Bill Gollan: 1904:1991’. In B. Boughton, D. Blackman, M. Donaldson, C. Shute and B. Symons (eds), Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists Sydney: SEARCH Foundation in association with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 91-4. [ISBN: 978-1-876300-00-5]
 
Michael James Walsh & Stephanie Alice Baker (2020) Clean eating and Instagram: purity, defilement, and the idealization of food, Food, Culture & Society, DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2020.1806636
 
Moensted, Maja Lindegaard (2020). Social Citizenship Aspirations: An Alternative Line of Analysis of the Social Reproduction of Youth Inequality. YOUNG. November 2020. doi:10.1177/1103308820966437
 
Moensted, Maja Lindegaard, Day, Carolyn & Buus, Niels (2020) Youth Practitioners’ Perspectives on Building Agency and Supporting Transitions with and for Young People Experiencing Disadvantage. Journal of Applied Youth Studies (JAYS). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-020-00026-0
 
Moensted, Maja Lindegaard (2020) . Examining Aspirational Horizons: Desirable and Achievable Futures for Disadvantaged Young People. Journal of Applied Youth Studies (JAYS) 3, 65–78 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-020-00008-2

Informed News & Analysis

 
Andrea Waling, Duane Duncan & Gary Dowsett (2020) We asked 24 women to reflect on images of ‘hot’ men — and it’s good news for those with ‘dad bods’. The Conversation, November 11. 
 

Videos

James Arvanitakis (2020) Is Polling Relevant in 2020? Fullbright Australia, November 5. 
 
Thematic Group events

Living in Crisis

 
Social Theory Thematic Group & Thesis Eleven
Friday 27th November, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM AEDT, online
Keynote Speakers: Deborah Lupton (UNSW), Craig Calhoun (Arizona State), Peter Vale (Stellenbosch) and Peter Beilharz (Sichuan, Curtin)
 
For full details, and to register, read on...
 
TASA Publications

Journal of Sociology

Note: there us currently free full access the recent Journal of Sociology Special Issue on Indigenous Sociology https://buff.ly/3iJMU6M
 
The Journal of Sociology’s next Virtual Special issue is out now: A Sociology of Youth: Defining the Field edited by Professor Johanna Wyn: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jos/youth
 
 
The Journal of Sociology - Volume: 56, Number: 2 (June 2020) is now available. 
The Table of Contents can be viewed here.  To access each article, please click here.

Health Sociology Review

Volume 29, 2020 - Issue 3: Tech, Sex and Health: The Place of New Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Human Intimacy

The latest special issue of Health Sociology Review is now out, guest edited by TASA members Jennifer Power and Andrea Waling: Tech, Sex and Health: The Place of New Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Human Intimacy.

This special issue also includes contributions from TASA members, Jennifer Power, Andrea Waling, (guest editors), Jacinthe Flore, Kiran Pienaar and Gary Dowsett.
 

Call for papers - 2022 Special Issue

'Indigenous & sociological knowledges: Meeting points for health equity'.
Health Sociology Review seeks articles from Indigenous authors and their colleagues internationally, with the aim of identifying and guiding meeting points between Indigenous knowledges and sociological approaches to understanding health equity.
 
Seeking articles that consider health equity for Indigenous communities rather than individual health issues. Contributions are welcome on topics including social determinants of health and wellbeing, power and empowerment, racism, diversity across age, ability, gender, sexuality, identity and location, cultural safety, decolonising methodologies, sociologically informed program evaluations and theoretical developments.
Abstract submission deadline: TOMORROW November 13. Read on...
 
 
The Health Sociology Review (HSR) Special Section – Sociology and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic is now available. You can access all the articles, which are open access through to the end of this year, via the HSR website here.
 
HSR Editors in Chief Karen Willis and Sarah MacLean invited authors of the Special Section issue to submit videos about their paper for Social Sciences Week. TASA member, and Digital Publications Editor, Roger Wilkinson, edited the video submissions into one. See Health Sociology Review: Special Section on ‘Sociology and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic’ .
 
**TEACHING RESOURCE ALERT**
 
Sociology and the Covid-19 pandemic. Less than two weeks after COVID-19 had been declared a pandemic, Health Sociology Review guest editor Deborah Lupton disseminated a call for abstracts, with a timeline for submission, peer review and publication designed to publish a COVID-19 special section as quickly as possible. This video is a snapshot of the special section authors' comments depicting sociology's trait in understanding the impacts of the pandemic around the globe.
 
Employment

Jobs Board

The Jobs Board enables you to view current employment opportunities. As a member, you can post opportunities to the Jobs Board directly from within your membership profile screen.
Current Employment Opportunities
PhD Scholarships
La Trobe University Industry Research Scholarship – Parade College (Masculinities)
This prestigious scholarship, established by La Trobe University in partnership with Parade College, will be awarded to an outstanding applicant who is interested in exploring student voice and agency, masculinities, and LGBTQIA+ experiences.
Application deadline: 22 November. 
Read on...
 
PhD Scholarship - ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making +Society, UNSW Node
The purpose of the Scholarship is to support PhD candidates working on a topic related to the sociocultural aspects of automated decision-making in health or medicine under the supervision of Professor Deborah Lupton at the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society. 
Application deadline: Midday, December 10. Read on...
 
PhD Scholarship - Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health/Social Policy Research Centre
The purpose of the Scholarship is to support PhD candidates working on a topic related to the Vitalities Lab led by Professor Deborah Lupton.
Application deadline: Midday, December 10. Read on...
 
Four PhD scholarships available
The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society
(1) Men, sex & sexuality, (2) Investigating sexual identity & gender orientation change efforts in Australia, (3) Infectious disease, gender & stigma & (4) Drugs, sex/gender & human rights
Note: the application deadline is different for each scholarship.
For the full detailsread on...
 

Scholarships Board

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.
Current Scholarship Opportunities
Other Events, News & Opportunities

Call for Presenters

 
New: Call for presenters for the 2021 Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series
If you are interested in being a part of the seminar series next year, please complete this form and email it back to Dorinda Thart.
 

Call for Papers

New: International Journal on Homelessness (IJOH)
This is a new journal and you are invited to contribute to the first edition
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2021. Read on...
 

Call for Participants

New: Cultural Interactions in Australia.
Researchers at La Trobe University are seeking volunteer research participants to be involved in a study about interactions with different cultural groups within Australia. Questions will involve personal experiences and opinions regarding cultural groups- their interactions and mutual influence in society.

If you are 18 year or older, have been living in Australia for 5+ years, have access to the internet and are willing for your interview audio to be recorded, you are eligible to take part in this study.

If selected, the interview will take approximately 30 - 45 minutes of your time and will be conducted and recorded via Zoom or over the phone. After the interview, you will receive a $20 gift voucher for your contribution. Your participation is voluntary.

This research is conducted as part of a PhD thesis, submitted to the Department of Psychology and Counselling, La Trobe University.

For more information and to express your interest, please fill out the screening questionnaire here or contact Graduate Researcher, Ariane Virgona. Ethics approval number: HEC20396

Findable Trauma Data Project

TASA member Anna Denejkina is a co-lead on the Findable Trauma Data project, which was established to make traumatic stress research data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Inter-operable, and Re-usable. The database being created will be an accessible index of trauma data resources for all researchers and research students globally. Importantly, the project team are not after access to any data: the aim of this project is to index existing trauma data resources and include basic information on the resource (e.g. geographic location, type and size of study, and whether / how it is accessible for use by others).
For further details about the project, a submission portal, and contact details, read on...
 
TASA Documents and Policies
You can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2019-2020 as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures & TASA History
Accessing Online Materials & Resources
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TASA members have access to over 90 peer-reviewed  Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals encompassing over 63,000 articles. The image on the left shows you where to access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, when logged in to TASAweb. 

Gift Memberships

Gift memberships are available with TASA.  If you would like to purchase a gift membership, please email the following details through to the TASA Office:

 
1. Name of gift recipient;
2. email address of gift recipient;
3. the membership category you are gifting (see the available Membership Categories & Fees); and
4. who the Tax Invoice should be made out to.
 

Upon receiving the above details, TASA will email the recipient with full details on how they can take up the gift membership. You will receive the Tax Invoice, via email, after the recipient completes the online membership form.

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