| Dear ~~first_name~~,
We invite you to join us TODAY for our TASA Thursdays event on Wellbeing Culture in a Complex Primary School. Fellow member Elspeth McInnes will be joined by two colleagues A/Prof Whitington and Dr Bec Neill: October 13th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT. Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82238565805?pwd=bHBJdlFQOWxNR1dRNWRsd0NUTDU5UT09 Meeting ID: 822 3856 5805
Passcode: 534500
| We extend our warm appreciation to our TASA 2022 volunteers:
- Evan Willis
- Ricki Spencer
- Madonna Boman
- Caitlin Learmonth
- Alice R Wighton
- Faiza Yasmeen
- Alice Campbell
- Dominica Meade
- Michelle Walter
We have one spot left on Friday December 2nd. Volunteer here.
| | TASA 2022 Postgraduate Day - Call for Mentors
| This year's Postgraduate Day will include a Mentoring Session. The postgraduate sub-committee are looking for senior sociologists that would like to be part of the Mentoring Session that will take place during TASA 2022 on Tuesday 29th of November from 1.30pm to 2.30pm. The purpose of this session is for senior sociologists and postgraduate students to exchange and discuss some of the main challenges and opportunities that they face during their PhD journey. The mentors will offer advice, share knowledge, talk about their own past experience, and help the students come up with a ideas for moving forward. If you are interested in being a mentor, please email postgraduates@tasa.org.au and include MENTORING SESSION in the subject line.
| | Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program
| At the start of 2021, TASA introduced a new initiative, 'The Australian Sociological Association’s Workshop Program', which was subsequently renamed the Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program. While we appreciate the pandemic may continue to thwart scheduled events, we will continue to support and promote sociology where we can. Applications are currently open for 2 x $5,000 funded workshops to be held in 2023.
| TASA Funded ISA 2023 Bursaries
for Members
| Several TASA Bursaries are available to support TASA members' attendance at the ISA 2023 World Congress. They are:
The application deadline for all bursaries is January 16th, 2023.
| TASA Funded ISA 2023 Bursaries
for HDRs and ECRs from Category C & B Countries | | TASA’s 2023 ISA Bursary seeks to support the attendance of higher degree research students (HDR) and early career researchers (ECR) from Category B and Category C countries in the Asia-Pacific Region (see below) at the 2023 International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, June 25 - July 1, 2023. | | Category B countries: China; Fiji; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Is.; Peru; Russian Fed.; Thailand; Tonga; Tuvalu.
Category C countries: Bangladesh; Cambodia; India; Indonesia; Kiribati; Korea, Dem. Rep; Lao PDR; Micronesia; Mongolia; Nepal; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Samoa; Solomon Is.; Sri Lanka; Timor-Leste; Vanuatu; Vietnam.
We welcome and encourage you to share this opportunity amongst your relevant networks. The full details, and application form, are on TASAweb here. | | | | Members' Engaging Sociology | Haydn Aarons and Evan Willis (2022) The Sociological Quest: An Introduction to the Study of Social Life (6th edn), Routledge
| | Announcing a new edition of this well known primer to the discipline, now co-authored with Haydn Aarons. Three previous editions were published by Allen & Unwin. Others versions have been a 1996 North American adaptation (Rutgers University Press) as well as a 2006 Norwegian adaptation co-authored by Aksel Tjora (På sosiologisk spor: En innføring i sosiologisk forståelse. Tapir Akademisk Forlag).
Revised and updated, and now co-authored to reflect current events especially the COVID Pandemic, this short book has been used for two main audiences. One is courses in introductory sociology; especially the first semester. The other is service subjects to professional training courses such as health sciences, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Its aim, utilising relevant and contemporary local and international examples, is to introduce students to a sociological way of thinking about the world. Read on... | | | Walsh, M.J., Baker, S.A. and Wade, M. (2022), "Evaluating the elevation of authoritative health content online during the COVID-19 pandemic", Online Information Review, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-12-2021-0655
Clark, E., Munday, J., & Watts, A. (2022). Working Up Top: Employment at Mayday Hills Mental Hospital, Beechworth, Victoria, 1960–1995. Oral History, 50(2), 85–95.
lisahunter, Zavros-Orr, A., Brömdal, A., Hand, K., & Hart, B. (2022). Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play? Sport, Education and Society, 0(0), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2115477
| 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.
| TASA Tea Time
Thanks to Heidi Hetz, our equity & inclusion portfolio leader, the next TASA Tea Time session will be held on Monday November 7th. You can register for the event here.
Event times:
4:00pm - 5:00pm (AWST Perth)
6:00pm - 7:00pm (Brisbane, Cairns)
6:30pm - 7:30pm (SA/NT)
7:00pm - 8:00pm (AEDT Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Tasmania)
| | The third event in the Sociology Out West 2022 Seminar Series will be held at ECU Joondalup on Thursday 20 October 5:30-7:00pm.
Join us for presentations from Dr Naomi Godden (ECU) and Dr Angela Leahy (Murdoch), please see the event flyer attached for abstracts and presenter bios.
The presentations and discussion will be followed by a self-funded dinner at a local restaurant. Details of where we will eat are still tbc, we'll let you know nearer the time.
This seminar will be held in blended mode so you can join us for the presentations (though sadly not the dinner!) no matter where you are based.
Meeting ID: 435 310 692 003
Passcode: MxVGjv
Join with a video conferencing device
Video Conference ID: 137 073 873 0
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2023 Social Sciences Week will be held from 4-10 September, 2023
| Gary Bouma TASA Workshop - Alone in a crisis: Reflections on recent personal, financial, and health shifts
Call for papers
Virtual 1-day workshop
2nd November 2022
Organiser: Lara McKenzie
‘Alone in a crisis’ is a full-day, virtual workshop presenting researcher findings and practitioner experiences on single and solo living people’s personal, financial, and heath-related experiences of recent crises, government pandemic measures and lockdowns, and the implications of any resulting shifts. It will bring together postgraduate, early career researcher, and senior academic sociologists, anthropologists, and social scientists, as well as practitioners and policy experts from across the world. Workshop participants will discuss the realities, consequences, and future needs of people living alone in times of crisis.
| Healthy Societies 2022: Infrastructures of Care - Foundations and Fractures
Free online event, Wednesday 16 November, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT
Speakers include fellow members Greg Marston, Barbara Barbosa Neeves, Karen Soldatic, Alan Petersen and Alex Broom
Profound social transformations are reshaping the ways we ‘care’ (or fail to care) for ourselves, each other, our environments and our societies. The very materialities, moralities and infrastructures of contemporary care are being radically reformed and, at times, called into question.
| Cultures of Wellbeing Symposium
A Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Event
10am-3pm, Wednesday, 23 November
Deakin Downtown, Deakin University
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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.
| Youth and money matters: Precarity, wellbeing and digital media
A 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
| Conceptualising Youth Mobilities Amidst Social Challenges Workshop
28th November
Hybrid, Deakin Business Centre
| |
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.
| | | Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Journal of Sociology Special Issue
Decolonising Truth Globally: Challenges and Possibilities
Guest Editors: Yin Paradies, Vanessa Barolsky and Laura Rodriguez Castro
(Scheduled for publication in 2024)
| This special issue builds on a sustained engagement with the call for truth-telling in Australia during a seminar series run by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies between 2020 and 2022 entitled ‘Decolonising Truth Globally’, which included critical discussions on truth-telling in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Timor Leste, and the Solomon Islands. The special issue will draw and expand on these international dialogues to ask: What might ‘decolonising’ truth-telling mean and how could it be practised?
Abstract submission deadline: October 28. Read on...
| | | Call for proposals for Special Issue by Guest Editors Issue 1, 2024
The incoming editors of HSR encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues exploring new ideas and the cutting edge of their field of expertise. Particularly welcome are proposals for special issues with a focus on novel empirical domains, theoretical frameworks and/or methodologies in the sociology of health and illness (for example, the intersection of health sociology and climate change).
Expression of interest deadline: October 15. Read on...
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.
| Research Officer
Western Sydney University (WSU)
The School of Social Sciences is seeking a motivated Research Officer to support the two WSU based Chief Investigators on the research project ‘Interventions for young men and boys using IPV (Intimate Partner Violence) in early relations: Analysing identification, referral and practices, and investigating motivating and protective factors for targeted intervention’.
Assistant/Associate Professor in Indigenous Policy and Politics
The University of British Columbia
Lecturer in Sociology
University of Canterbury
The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies
The Committee on Australian Studies at Harvard University seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for the 2024-2025 academic year.
| 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.
| | | PhD/Master of Arts Scholarship in Social Science – Lived experiences of bushfire affected communities with a focus on how granting and funding during and following disasters affect individual and community resilience
Monash University
Supervisor: fellow member Helen Forbes-Mewett
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
Drugs, Gender and Sexuality (DruGS) research program
The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
Integrating community and family care for older people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
The University of Queensland
Including the voices of children and young people in support services
Australian National University / Relationships Australia
This supplementary ‘top up’ scholarship is a terrific opportunity for a PhD candidate who wants to conduct research that will inform improvements in community services for Australian children, young people, and their families and/or carers.
Application deadline: 10 pm Monday 31st October. Read on...
| | 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 | 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...
| | Revitalising Universities in (Post-) COVID Times Symposium
5 November, Tokyo University, 10.30-18.30 Japan Standard Time (JST).
University of Tokyo, convened by Dr Naomi Berman.
In addition to keynote speaker award winning Professor Emeritus Raewyn Connell, the event will feature a thought-provoking range of presentations and roundtables exploring themes in relation to the social purpose of universities, academic identity, student experience (including grief), and resilience in the face of emergencies.
Program details are available here.
Registrations close TOMORROW 14 October. To register, click here.
The is a free hybrid event, so please share with your colleagues and networks. For questions or inquiries please contact Ahram Han at: ahramhan@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp. | | | Environmental Destruction: The Oppressive Effects of War, Pollution, Capital and Climate Change
Free, online, December 14, 12:00 – 16:00 GMT
Abstract submission deadline: 23rd of November. Read on...
Environmental Destruction: The Effects of War, Pollution & Capital
Free, online workshop hosted by (In)justice International and Liverpool Hope University
Wed, 14 December 2022, 12:00 – 16:00 GMT
Abstract submission deadline: 23rd of November. Read on...
| Journals - Call for Papers | 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
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...
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