| Dear ~~first_name~~,
By all accounts, TASA 2022 was a great success. It was wonderful to see our members interacting with each other and sharing their work. We hope that many new connections and friendships were formed. For those of you who couldn't make it, we will be including recordings of the keynotes and a few other sessions in next week's newsletter. For now, we are delighted be able to share with you the news of our 2022 Award winners, they are:
| | Celebrating TASA 2022 Award Winners | Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology Award - Sharyn Roach Anleu
| | Pictured below is TASA President Alphia Possamai-Inesedy and Sharyn Roach Anleu.
| | Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu has provided outstanding, significant, and sustained service to Australian sociology since her appointment to the Sociology Department at Flinders University in 1987 after completing her PhD at the University of Connecticut, supervised principally by Albert K Cohen and Myra Marx Ferree. She has a stellar record in the advancement of sociology in teaching and research and has remained committed to Australian sociology and the sociological imagination since her undergraduate days at the University of Tasmania. You can read more about Sharyn's contribution to sociology here. | | | Stephen Crook Memorial Prize -Xiaoying Qi | |
Below right, Brady Robards (award Chair) and Xiaoying at last week's conference dinner and award presentations. | Raewyn Connell Prize -Leah Williams Veazy
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Below right, Xiaoying Qi (who was on the book panel and presented the award on behalf of the Chair, Adam Possamai, who couldn't be present on the night) and Leah Williams Veazy. | Sociology in Action Award - Sophie Hickey | | Since 2015, Sophie has project managed a participatory action research project–the Indigenous Birthing in an Urban Setting study–in partnership with industry partners to redesign maternity care First Nations families. The research has led to a profound reduction of preterm births. You can read more about the wonderful project here. Sophie, who is fluent in French and Spanish, is our new Executive Public Sociology Portfolio Leader. | Journal of Sociology Best Paper Award - Yoko Kanemasu & Asenati Liki | | Kanemasu, Y., & Liki, A. (2021). ‘Let fa’afafine shine like diamonds’: Balancing accommodation, negotiation and resistance in gender-nonconforming Samoans’ counter-hegemony. Journal of Sociology, 57(4), 806–824. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783320964538 [OPEN ACCESS]
| Early Career Researcher Award - Alexandra James | | Pictured below is Peta Cook (Award Chair) with Alexandra James. | Postgraduate Impact and Engagement Award - Hyein Cho
| | Pictured below is Dorinda 't Hart (outgoing Postgraduate Portfolio Leader and Award Chair) with Hyein Cho. | During Hyein's postgraduate studies, she worked with Victoria-based creative artists to transform one of her thesis chapters into a three-part short film series to highlight the narrative of Ari (a pseudonym), a Korean victim-survivor and her lived experience of domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia. You can read about Hyein's work here. | | | | Members' Engaging Sociology | Alan Morris, Catherine Robinson, Jan Idle & David Lilley (2022) Ideal bureaucracy? The application and assessment process for social housing in three Australian states, International Journal of Housing Policy, DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2132460. For article available here.
| 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
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.
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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 😊 | | | 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: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Tasmania
Working with fellow member Catherine Robinson
Application deadline: January 22, 2023. Read on...
New: Tenure-Track Faculty Position
The Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS) in Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Application deadline: December 15. Read on...
New: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Health Policy. Level B/C
University of Sydney
Lecturer, Sociology
University of Wollongong
Application deadline: December 14. Read on...
Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor
Hong Kong Baptist University
For full details, 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 | | New: A new Special Issue has been published in the Journal of Rural Studies on “Race and Place-Making in the Rural Global North”. This special issue features contributions from J.T. Roane (Rutgers), Sandrina de Finney (University of Victoria), Laura Rodriguez Castro (Deakin), Barbara Pini (Griffith), Lorayma Taula (Deakin), Mellisa Silaga, Michael Woods (Aberystwyth), as well as the editors Victoria Stead, Rose Butler & Christopher Mayes. Collectively, these papers interrogate the workings of race and power in rural places including in Australia, Canada and North America, Ireland and Wales. They chart new ways forward for rural studies, and offer powerful accounts of Black and Indigenous rural lifeways, as well as critiques of whiteness as an enduring structuring force of power. Papers in the special issue can be accessed here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-rural-studies/special-issue/10LFX16H8TM. | Relisted: 'Environmental Destruction: The Effects of War, Pollution and Capital.
(In)Justice International free, online Workshop
December 14, 12:00 – 16:00 GMT
For details, and to register, read on... | Relisted: International Convention in South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences
(In)Justice International
Mikkeli, Finland, 28th-31st March, 2023
Abstract submission deadline extended: December 15. 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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