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Date: 11/16/2022
Subject: TASA members newsletter: November 17th
From: TASA



Dear ~~first_name~~,   
 
We hope you can join us TODAY for our final 2022 TASA Thursdays event, November 17th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT. Fellow member Joshua Thorburn will be presenting on Exploring How Incels Perform Gender via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86280712399?pwd=PSbauvD4xy7R6Q0mCUD4A2SBuX44dC.1 Meeting ID: 862 8071 2399 Passcode: 517133
 
If you missed either, or both, of our last two TASA Thursdays events you can catch up with the recordings via the links below:
 
Members' Engaging Sociology

Journal Articles

Jae-Eun Noh (2022). Ethical challenges faced by Korean development practitioners in international community development practices, Community Development Journal, (online first), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsac036
 
Nguyen-Trung, K. (2022). Risk Epistemologies and Aesthetic Reflexivity of a Disaster-Affected Community: Findings from Vietnam. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804221133120
 
Katherine Whitworth and Yao-Tai Li. 2022. “Visual Framing: The Use of COVID-19 in the Mobilization of Hong Kong Protest.” The China Quarterly https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022001564
 
Southerton, C., & Clark, M. (2022). OBGYNs of TikTok and the role of misinformation in diffractive knowledge production. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833221135209
 
Murrup-Stewart, C., Atkinson, P., & Adams, K. (2022). Storying Ways to Reflect on Power, Contestation, and Yarning Research Method Application. The Qualitative Report, 27(3), 777–791. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5173
 
Ashley Humphrey, Helen Forbes-Mewett and AnaMaria Bluic (2022). "I just want to be happy": An exploration of the aspirations, values, social connectedness, and psychological wellbeing of Australian young people. Emerging Adulthood. Accepted Oct 2022.
 

News and Analysis

For tips from fellow members on getting published in The Conversation (TC), click here. For some members' articles published in TC between 2013 & 2019, click here. To find out what can happen after publishing in TC, click here.
 
Fethi Mansouri, Matteo Vergani and Enqi Weng (2022). In the lead up to the Victorian state election, let’s not forget about the needs of multicultural communities (again). ABC Religion & Ethics. 11 Nov.
 
Eduardo de la Fuente & Michael James Walsh (2022) ‘A kind of meditative peace’: quiet hour shopping makes us wonder why our cities have to be so noisy. The Conversation, November 11. 
 
Michelle Fitts, Jennifer Cullen & Karen Soldatic (2022) First Nations women are 69 times more likely to have a head injury after being assaulted. We show how hard it is to get help. The Conversation, November 10. 
 

Events

TASA Thursdays
For a full list of our TASA Thursdays events for 2022, as well as the registration links, please visit TASAweb here.
 
TASA Tea Time
Thanks to Heidi Hetz, our equity & inclusion portfolio leader, the next TASA Tea Time session will be held on in-person during the conference Wednesday November 30th, 10:30am - 11:00am, Arts West building, University of Melbourne, Room 161. All welcome:-)
 
Cultures of Wellbeing Symposium
A Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Event
10am-3pm, Wednesday, 23 November
Online and in-person, Deakin Downtown, Deakin University
For full details, and to register, read on... 
 
'Whither Social Theory'
A Social Theory Thematic Group workshop
Speakers: Benjamin Manning, Vanessa Bowden, Rebecca Pearse, Craig Browne, Malcolm Alexander, Bryan Turner, Jack Barbalet Catherine Hastings, & Alonso Casanueva Baptista
Melbourne, Monday 28 November 8:30 am – 5:00 pm AEDT
For the full program, and the abstracts, click here.
For details, and to register, read on...

Conceptualising Youth Mobilities Amidst Social Challenges Workshop
28th November
Hybrid, Deakin Business Centre
Speakers include Catherine Gomes & Valentina Cuzzocrea
For full details, and to register, read on...

Youth November 28 event
Youth and money matters: Precarity, wellbeing and digital media
Sociology of Youth Thematic Group symposium
Keynote - Professor Lisa Adkins, FASS, University of Sydney
Panellists: A/Prof Steven Threadgold, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Benjamin Hanckel and Dr Natalie Hendry
Monday 28 November 9am-4pm
Bursaries available
For details, and to register, read on...


Remembering Stephen Castles
Part of TASA 2022
Thursday December 1st, 2:30pm - 3:00pm
Hybrid, University of Melbourne and via Zoom. 
This is a free event. 
 Click here to register. 

New: Religion, Race and Belonging: Reflecting on a Decolonial Turn in Studies of Religion in Australia
Penny Magee Memorial Lecture 
1st December, 5pm, Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne
Speaker: fellow member Enqi Weng
For details, and to register, Read on...


Socs out west eoy 2022
 
 
 
 
You're invited to join a picnic to celebrate the holidays! The picnic will be on Thursday 15th December, from 4pm, at the James Mitchell Playground on the South Perth Foreshore. Friends and family are all welcome! Bring a plate to share 😊
TASA Publications

Journal of Sociology

Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
 
JoS 2024 SI Future/Tense

Health Sociology Review

Yuwinbir – this way! Going beyond meeting points between Indigenous knowledges and health sociology
Health Sociology Review special issue Volume 31, Issue 2 (2022)
Guest edited by Megan Williams and Demelza Marlin. 
All articles are on OPEN ACCESS for 90 days here.
 
Employment
New: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor
Hong Kong Baptist University
For full details, 
read on...

Assistant Professor - Sociology of Religion
University of Toronto Scarborough
Application deadline:
November 28. 
Read on...
 
Professor in Sociology
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Application deadline:
November 30th. 
Read on...
 
Assistant Professor (2 posts) in the Department of Sociology
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Application deadline: November 30th. 
Read on...
 
Assistant Professor in Environmental Sociology/ Sociology of Health
York University
Application deadline: December 2nd. 
Read on...
 
  

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
Pandemic parenting: Investigating reproductive, maternal and infant health care during the COVID-19 pandemic
University of Tasmania, with fellow member Jennifer Ayton as supervisor
The positions will remain open until filled. For details, read on... 
 
Fit for purpose medical professionals - Fit for purpose: Investigating the teaching and learning of social accountability medical humanities informed curricula for Tasmanian medical students
University of Tasmania, with fellow member Jennifer Ayton as supervisor
The positions will remain open until filled. For details, read on... 
 
Micro-biopolitics and the deep relationality of (self)care: Examining the politics and practices of care for the self and for others
University of Sydney, with supervisor Katherine Kenny
For details, read 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

Inaugural Congress of HASS shared program

We encourage you to come along and support sociology by attending the

Congress of HASS events

Congress 2
Congress of HASS
The Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). In addition to the many individual association events, like TASA 2022, that are the heart of the Congress, CHASS is hosting an opening and closing event as well as four professional development events throughout the Congress. This Opening Ceremony will have a plenary panel with 4 panellists, including fellow member Raewyn Connell, reflecting on the way they have used HASS to make change beyond the academy and beyond academic debates.

The panellists are:
Tony Birch (author)
Liz Allen (Demographer - Australian National University)
Alec Coles OBE (CEO of Western Australian Museums)
Raewyn Connell (Sociologist, University of Sydney).

The facilitator is Misha Ketchell Editor in Chief at The Conversation.
 
For full details about the opening ceremony as well as other events, and to register, read on...

New: Congress of HASS open, free, events include:

The Most Pressing Issues facing Early and Mid-Career Academics 28/11/22 1.30pm
Monday November 28th, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
 
Social ventures and the translation of humanities, arts and social sciences research
Tuesday November 29th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
 
HASS means Business
Wednesday November 30th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
 
HASS - Tracks Out of Covid
Thursday December 1st, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
 
Congress Closing Plenary: HASS – Making better futures
Friday December 2nd, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
 
The panellists are:
  •  Fellow member Zlatko Skrbis (Sociologist and Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University)
  • Yves Rees (Historian - Latrobe)
  • Maggie Walter (Social Scientist and Pro Vice-Chancellor - Aboriginal Research and Leadership, University of Tasmania)
  • Larissa Hjorth (artist and digital ethnographer - RMIT).
Apart from the opening event, which is catered, all of the above events are free to attend. You don't need to be registered for TASA 2022 but, although the events are free to attend, you will still need to register here.
 

Conference

New: Unsettling Certainties
Society for the History of Emotions' Fourth Biennial Conference
University of Adelaide over 28 November to 1 December 2023
Submission deadline: March 1. Read on...

Panel

New: ANU Migration Update 2022
The ANU Migration Update 2022 examines the emerging dynamics of global migration and immigrant integration in Australia.
National Museum of Australia on Wednesday 23 November 2022, 6pm to 8pm.
 
Keynote speakers include:

• The Hon Andrew Giles MP, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

• Dr Marie McAuliffe, Head, Migration Research Division, International Organization for Migration

• Professor Alan Gamlen, School of Regulation and Global Governance, The Australian National University
 
For details, and to register, read on...

Thesis 11 Annual Lecture

Left-Right, or Left Right Out? Knowledge Economies, Social Inequalities, Education and Authoritarian Populism
Professor Susan L. Robertson (Monash University).
Wednesday 30th November, 5:00pm-6:30pm, All welcome, drinks to follow the lecture
For details, and to register, 
read on...
 

World Convention

Injustice in a World of Uncertainty
International Convention in South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Mikkeli, Finland
28th-31st March, 2023
Abstract submission deadline: December 1st. Read on...
 
TASA Gift Memberships
Gift memberships, for any membership category, can now be accessed at anytime via your membership profile screen. If you would like to gift a membership, to someone new or to a current member, please follow the steps below:
 
STEP 1: Click here and log in

STEP 2: Click on the drop down menu to the right of your name in the purple bar (RH) at the top of the website (see 1st image below)
 
STEP 3: Click on Profile (see 1st image below)
 
STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. 
Profile Steps 2
Submitting Newsletter Items
We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced & with a link, where possible) for the next newsletter, to TASA Admin. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning.
Updating your Member Profile
Personal pronoun preferences can now be added to your profile. There are 9 combination options to choose from. Please let Sally in TASA Admin know if your preference/s is not on the list and we will have them added.
 
For assistance with updating your Member Profile on TASA web please see the video tutorial: Updating your Member Profile
 
TASA Documents and Policies
TASA has introduced a policy for Safe and Inclusive events and Sustainable events
 
You can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2021 - 2022, and their respective portfoliosas well as documents and policies, including the ConstitutionValues StatementStatement on Academic FreedomCode 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. If needed, here is a short instructive video on how to access the journals. 

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