| Dear ~~first_name~~,
It's been another big year and it's not over yet! If you are a sociology convener/Honours coordinator, we invite you to nominate your top Honours students in Sociology for 2022. See details further down.
We are happy to report that our 2023 Jean Martin Award is also now open for nominations (self nominations welcome).
Both awards will remain open for the first few months of 2023 so you have plenty of time to complete the nomination forms.
| We extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Helen Forbes-Mewett who has been awarded the North Star Medal of Lifetime Achievement. This award is A. Noam Chomsky Global Connections Award is the premier acknowledgment of outstanding achievement and success in transnational research. It honors senior scholars whose lifelong service, leadership and contributions serve as a guiding north star for scholarly collaboration in research. Helen received this award because of her contribution to better the circumstances of international students across several nations. Congratulations Helen!
| | The Jean Martin Award, a part of the legacy of the late Jean Martin (picture left), recognises excellence in scholarship in the field of Sociology and aims to assist with establishing the career of a recent PhD graduate. Excellence in scholarship in the field of sociology, and the balanced treatment of sociological theory and research are the main criteria for deciding the Award.
The current round is open to theses for which a PhD has been/is formally awarded between the period March 1st 2021 to 28 February 2023.
| | | | Honours Awards - Call for nominations
| TASA's Honours/Masters Student Award is given annually to the best Honours/Masters student in Sociology in each Australian university. The Award is:
- Determined by the convenor (or equivalent) of the Sociology Honours/Masters program in each university
- Available to Honours/Master students who have a) completed a sociology major, and b) had their Honours/Masters thesis supervised and/or examined by a recognised sociologist in the current year
- In recognition of receiving the best overall mark in Honours/Masters for that year
| Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Matters of Time in Health & Illness
Issue 1, 2024 | This special issue will bring together papers exploring how time relates with and in health and illness. We encourage submissions that think with ‘time’ in many ways: as a heuristic device for exploring the sociological dimensions of how health and care unfold (in prolonged and fleeting ways); as a sociohistorical situating of health and care practices; as a way of measuring and constituting health experiences and events; and as a speculative orientation towards anticipated and imagined futures of health.
Guest Editors: Mia Harrison, Anthony K J Smith, and Sophie Adams.
| Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Issue 2, 2024 | Worldwide, it is estimated that approximately 30% of women have experienced violence (WHO 2021a) and that the prevalence of violence against women and girls increases significantly once broader social inequities are taken into account such as Indigeneity, disability, race and ethnicity, 2SLGBTIQ+ status, and age (WHO 2021b). Interaction with the healthcare system can provide an opportunity for a coordinated response to be enacted that provides critical care to women (Fitts et al., 2022). While there have been decades of advocacy for action to address the rates of violence against women, the breadth of minority and marginalised women’s experiences of accessing healthcare following violence are only gradually becoming known.
Guest Editors: Michelle Fitts and Karen Soldatic
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Barnes, T. (2022). Punish, protect or redirect? Synthesising workfare with ‘spatially Keynesian’ labour market policies in times of job loss. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221140891
Lohmeyer, B. (2022). The institutionalised momentum of slow violence: Spatiotemporal contradictions in young people’s accounts of school bullying. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2145932
| 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.
|  | New: Call for Abstracts
Young people’s ‘work’ is contested and debated: politicians discuss skills-shortages, training, higher education, and workforce patterns, while young people’s lived experiences of work are shaped by gender, class, location, race, ethnicity as well as the impact of intersecting crises. Young people’s ‘leisure time’ is now also commodified in new ways, with the rise of the social media influencer, the streamer, and the normalisation of ‘always on’ work conditions mediated through casual contracts, on-call arrangements, and gig platforms. At the same time, counter trends are emerging: at the macro level, industrial relations changes are proposing greater gig economy governance, while at the micro level, discussions of work-life balance are popularising around ‘the great resignation’, ‘quiet quitting’, and ‘digital detox’ narratives.
What are the key issues and challenges facing young people around work today? What opportunities are there for disrupting ways of working enabled by new technologies and social movements? This symposium will bring together cutting edge research to answer these questions.
| TASA Thursdays
Our TASA Thursdays events for 2022 have ended. We are very happy to report that we have locked in our first event for 2023, though!; 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights’ with panellists Raewyn Connell, Pam Nilan, Josh Roose, & Mario Peucker. Thursday 16 February, 2023, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT. Registrations details will be available soon.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 4 (December 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| 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 available on OPEN ACCESS indefinitely here.
| New: Associate/Fellow or Senior Fellow
On prestigious £1.3m, five-year European Research Council Starting Grant RECEDE: ‘REgulating Criminal justicE DEtention: glocal prospects for improving health and safety in detention and society’.
New: Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for 2023-24 and 2024-25.
The Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS) at the University of Tokyo is seeking applications for a Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for 2023-24 and 2024-25. This is a teaching and research position for approximately 10 months duration, and is open to Australian citizens and permanent residents only. CPAS welcomes applications from highly qualified candidates with significant academic or public achievement in the field of Australian Studies broadly defined, including but not limited to cultural studies, history, literature, politics and society, philosophy and ethics, Indigenous issues, migration, foreign policy and international relations and environmentalism. Whilst Australia should remain the main focus, applications are also welcomed from candidates whose field of study covers the broader Pacific regions including Oceania, Polynesia, Micronesia and North America, with an emphasis on issues that are of particular relevance to the changing dynamics in the political economy and cross-cultural interchange in the area.
The Visiting Professor in Australian Studies is required to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels; to present conference papers; to conduct research; and to participate in promoting Australian Studies within Japan. All teaching is conducted in English. An attractive salary package and subsidised accommodation are available. The appointment is for a period of approximately 10 months and will commence in September 2023 or September 2024. Applicants may be considered for either term or both terms.
For details, including application instructions, salary and housing arrangements, and further information, please see the position description. Applications are due 1 February 2023. Enquiries should be directed to kate.dariansmith@utas.edu.au
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Tasmania
Working with fellow member Catherine Robinson
Application deadline: January 22, 2023. Read on...
| 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.
| | | 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
| | 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 | Call for Papers - Journal
| New: Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction," edited by Matthew DelSesto (Boston College) and Stephen Pfohl (Boston College).
This thematic issue explores the growing interest in ecological sustainability policies, programs and practices related to the criminal justice system. Contributions should highlight how these approaches are reducing recidivism, facilitating prisoner resettlement, or supporting social inclusion.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2023 | Deadline for Articles: 31 July 2023. For full details, read on... | Religion in Modern Education: Conflict, Policy and Practices
The Australian National University
13-15 April 2023, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Abstract Deadline: 14 February 2023. Read on...
Unsettling Certainties
Society for the History of Emotions' Fourth Biennial Conference
University of Adelaide over 28 November to 1 December 2023
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