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If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays Postgraduate Engagement and Impact Award Information Session hosted by Laura Simpson Reeves on behalf of the Postgraduate Sub-Committee, with insights from the current Postgraduate Portfolio leader Dorinda ‘t Hart and previous award winners Brittany Ralph, Osmond Chiu and Erik Denison, you can catch up with the recording here.
| TASA 2022 EXECUTIVE ELECTION
FINAL CALL | In case you missed our election email earlier this week, please note that the call for nominations is now open.
Nominations are being called for the following positions on TASA's Executive Committee for the two-year term December 2022 – November 2024:
- President
- Vice-President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Indigenous Portfolio Leader
- Public Sociology Portfolio Leader
- Equity and Inclusion Portfolio Leader
- Thematic Groups Portfolio Leader
- Postgraduate Portfolio Leader
| TASA THURSDAYS - SAVE THE DATE
NORTHERN RIVERS HOUSING CRISIS | On August 11th, for another TASA Thursdays event, fellow member Josephine E Browne will facilitate a panel discussion on the Northern Rivers Housing Crises.
Panellists:
John Lee (You Have A Friend, Tweed Heads)
Jemima Mowbray (Policy and Advocacy Manager, Tenants' Union of NSW)
Brendan Ross (Coordinator, Northern Rivers Tenants Advice & Advocacy Service)
Simone Hickey (Financial Counsellor, Lismore)
Event description:
The flood crisis in the Northern Rivers focused national media attention on Lismore in March 2022. This attention raised the issues of emergency needs for housing, food, medical care and assistance for animals and pets. The floods, however, extended well beyond Lismore, affecting the whole of the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Already, this region faced many challenges, not least due to the increased costs of housing due to tree- and sea-changers leaving major cities during the Covid pandemic. The region saw price rises in rentals of around 40%, pricing many locals out of the housing market, and forcing them to live in tents, cars and caravan parks.
This panel will discuss the aftermath of the floods, not just for Lismore, but across the whole of the Northern Rivers region, where an already vulnerable group of communities continue to suffer the effects of the floods, particularly in relation to an exacerbation of the housing crisis.
| | SOCIOLOGY IS STILL ALIVE IN THE WEST! |
You may be aware of the recent destruction of the Anthropology and Sociology major at the University of Western Australia, and removal of its staff, as part of a 'restructure' of the Social Sciences there. Despite a very public campaign last year challenging the proposal, UWA has pushed this change through. Social Sciences at UWA is now focused on geography and archaeology, and research 'flagships are the archaeology and geography of regional Western Australia.
We're pleased that this does not mean the death of sociology in WA, however. Longstanding TASA member Farida Fozdar took up a Professorship at Curtin University last week, joining existing sociology staff there. Along with a number of colleagues from UWA's Social Sciences, she will help develop an exciting Global Futures initiative that will link a range of disciplines, building an internationalisation agenda, and connecting Curtin’s five global campuses. Global Futures will enhance capability in a range of areas including intercultural awareness, sustainability, and regional expertise and engagement with the Indo-Pacific region, particularly Africa, Korea and Japan, to add to Curtin's existing expertise.
According to Curtin’s PVC Humanities the initiative “will lead to greater opportunity for global mobility and perspectives that are synonymous with a global university and our One Curtin vision.”
Farida and her WA sociology colleagues will also continue to build the Sociology Out West initiative, providing opportunities for WA sociologists from across sectors to come together for seminars, one day conferences and social events. | | Members' Engaging Sociology | Vergani, M., Mansouri, F., Weng, E. et al. The effectiveness of ethno-specific and mainstream health services: an evidence gap map. BMC Health Serv Res 22, 879 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08238-1 [open access]
Kuskoff E, Clarke A, Perales F, Parsell C. Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty. Sociology. July 2022. doi:10.1177/00380385221095025
| 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.
| TASA Thursdays
For a full list of our TASA Thursdays events for 2022, as well as the registration links, please visit TASAweb here.
| Cultures of Wellbeing Symposium
A Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Event
10am-3pm, Wednesday, 23 November
Deakin Downtown, Deakin University
Abstract submission deadline: August 31. Read on...
| Critical Realist methodology webinar
Co-convenor of TASA’s Applied Sociology Thematic Group Dr Catherine Hastings will be presenting a webinar on Critical Realist methodology in applied social science research, including approaches to evaluation. It will start with a presentation on core features of critical realism, focussing on its practical implications for analysing causal complexity, the use of social theory, the intersection of structure and agency, and working within a framework of interdisciplinary inquiry. She will appraise the influence of critical realism on her research work, using applied and evaluative project examples, particularly focussing on how critical realism provides frameworks to better (in her option!) answer questions such as what generates a problem, for whom, why, and in what contexts. The presentation will be followed by Q&A and discussion.
Next Wednesday 20 July, 1.30pm AEST, via Zoom: https://charlesdarwinuni.zoom.us/j/88251398531
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Deadlines for our TASA hosted ISA 2023 XX World Congress are now available here. For quick reference, the abstract submission deadline is September 30.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Health Sociology Review Call for New Editorial Team
Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW (HSR) for the four-year term 2023–2026. Transition arrangements will begin later in 2022, although the content for the first issue of 2023 will be finalised by the out-going editors.
Submission deadline: EXTENDED to Monday July 18. Read on... | SOCS108 Sessional Tutoring work Semester 2, 2022
The National School of Arts of the Australian Catholic University is seeking expressions of interest in teaching the tutorials in the 100-level unit “SOCS108 Contemporary Society & Change” in Semester 2, 2022 at our Canberra campus. There will be 2 x 2-hour tutorials per week.
Senior Research Fellow - Global Health Equity and Justice
Global Equity and Justice Research Group at The Kirby Institute, UNSW
Application deadline: July 28. Read on...
Professor of Sociology
Uppsala University, Sweden
Application deadline: September 30. Read on...
Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Lethbridge, Canada
Application deadline: September 1. Read on...
Senior Associate, Research
Work with fellow member Shanthi Robertson
The Insight Centre is looking for an experienced researcher, with a background in social and/or market research and a keen interest in current social, economic and policy issues. This position will suit a confident communicator and strong writer with a social science or research and insights background, and 3-5 years’ experience in research focused roles.
Application deadline: TOMOROROW July 15. 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.
| | | Sociology PhD Scholarships
La Trobe University
There is currently an open call for students to apply for scholarships with any research project. Students are also welcome to submit proposals for scholarships related to the following areas:
- Historical Sociology and Social Change: In particular, see staff profile for Ass Prof Katie Wright; in addition, Katie has an ARC project-based scholarship: The Child Abuse Royal Commission: Policy Reform and Social Change
- Mental Health, Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Culture, and Well-Being: In particular, see staff profiles for Dr Sara James, Dr Anne Maree-Sawyer, Ass Prof Katie Wright and Ass Prof Raelene Wilding
- Migration, Mobilities and Multiculturalism: In particular, see staff profiles for Dr Martina Boese, Dr Xianbi Huang, Ass Prof Anthony Moran and Ass Prof Raelene Wilding
- Social inequality and Social Networks: In particular, see staff profile of Dr Xianbi Huang
- Sociology of Aging, and Sociology of Relationships: In particular, see staff profiles for Dr Sara James, Dr Anne Maree-Sawyer and Ass Prof Raelene Wilding
- Sociology of morality, ethics, values, and judgement: In particular, see the staff profile of Dr Matthew Wade
- Sociology of work and employment: In particular, see staff profiles for Dr Martina Boese, Dr Xianbi Huang, Dr Sara James, Dr Anne Maree-Sawyer and Ass Prof Anthony Moran
| | 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 | New: Interactive workshop by fellow member Joseph Borlagdan & Kira Clarke (Brotherhood of St Laurence)
Located at the nexus of research, policy and practice, the BSL aims to bring about deep and radical reform of human service systems from a distinct vantage point. We have distilled over 10 years worth of experience pursuing systemic change into a guiding framework. This workshop will introduce those interested in innovative and applied social policy change to a set of theoretical and practical tools that: disrupt the status quo, activate community and policy actors, and re-design systems so that they can grow people's capabilities.
This Monday July 18, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm AEST
RMIT, Melbourne.
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The State We Were In: My Life, Achievements and Disappointments
Online Talk with Professor Emeritus Colin Barnes
Wednesday, 10 August, 5am - 7am AEST (Tuesday August 9, 20:00 – 22:00 BST)
| Talking Ageing with Attitude
28 October, Clunes
30 Years of Photovoice: Past, Present, and Future
Online, October 20-22
This virtual conference aims to bring photovoice practitioners together to share experience with this powerful and participatory visual method for mutual learning and positive change.
Fellow member Katherine Carroll is the event's track leader for Photovoice in Health
Revitalising Universities in (post-) COVID times. University of Tokyo (Tokyo), November 4 and 5, 2022
Hybrid, November 4-5
Convened by fellow member Naomi Berman
Bring together academics, educators, and experts from Australia, Japan and other regions to discuss the future of higher education as universities navigate pathways out of the pandemic.
Fellow member Raewyn Connell will be joining (virtually) as keynote speaker. Echoing Connell’s original call to rethink the ‘good university’, COVID has thrown into question taken-for-granted notions about the position of universities, forcing a reframing of understandings around their social purpose.
Submission deadline: EXTENDED TO July 17. Read on...
Note: if you experience issues with the submission link, please email your abstract directly to bermancgcs@gmail.com
| War, Economic Strife and the Long-Lasting Intersectional Effects on Refugees, Minorities, Disabled People and the Global Environment
Free online postgraduate workshop
Presenters can approach the issues from whichever intersectional preference they choose.
Hosted by (In) Justice International and TASA
September 14th, 9:00pm to September 15th 12:50am AEST
Abstract submission deadline: August 15. Read on...
| Sociology and Space
Invitation for authors’ contributions to the journal’s special issue triggered by the war in Ukraine
Abstract submission deadline: September 1. Read on...
Visioni LatinoAmericane
Latin America between socio-environmental, health and conflict emergencies. Risks, strategic and geopolitical choices,
socio-economic repercussions, shortage of raw materials and food. Reality and perspectives
Adult Migrants’ Language Learning, Labour Market, and Social Inclusion
Special Issue, Social Inclusion
Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Inclusion: Perspectives From Network Peripheries and Non-Adopters
Social Inclusion
Deadline for Articles: 31 January 2023
Abstract submission deadline: TOMORROW July 15. Read on...
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe
Volume 15 (Forthcoming 2024)
Edited by Olga Breskaya, University of Padova, and Siniša Zrinščak, University of Zagreb
Disabled People and the Intersectional Nature of Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion, Volume 11, Issue 4
Abstract submission deadline: November 30. Read on...
| Social Sciences Week 2022 | The team of Social Sciences Week (SSW) organisers have developed a digital assets webpage where you can easily download SSW images for your email signature, Twitter & Facebook etc.
Note, the deadline for having events uploaded to the SSW website is the end of July to allow organisers enough time for appropriate promotion and media releases. | 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:
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STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. | | 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.
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