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If you have had an abstract accepted to the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology and you are looking for financial assistance to attend the event, scroll down for details about the six TASA bursaries currently open for applications. Note, the deadline to apply is February 6th.
| We extend our warm congratulations to the following fourTASA members who have each had their thesis recently, officially conferred:
James, I.D. (2022) Refugee Settlement and the Process of Belonging in Regional Australia: A Grounded Theory Study in Launceston, Tasmania, Doctoral Thesis, University of Tasmania. Supervisors: Roberta Julian and Peta Cook.
Janine Gertz (2022) Gugu Badhun Sovereignty, Self-Determination and Nationhood. PhD thesis, College of Arts, Society & Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University. Supervisors: Theresa Petray and Stewart Lockie.
Carly Lubicz (2022) Mapping connection, disconnection and power within the social news media network: a case study of the Great Barrier Reef UNESCO 2021 'In Danger' recommendation on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Master of Philosophy thesis, College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University. Supervisors: Maxine Newlands and Theresa Petray.
James Milton (2023) Social Media as a zone of violence: Neoliberal ideology and violent self-presentation in online spaces. PhD thesis, College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University. Supervisors: Theresa Petray and Nick Osbaldiston.
| Postgraduate Sub-Committee 2023-2024:
Call for New Members | TASA’s Postgraduate Portfolio Leader, Richa George, is calling for expressions of interests to join TASA’s Postgraduate Sub-Committee (PGSC) for the 2023-2024 term. This PGSC supports the Postgraduate Portfolio Leader in representing and furthering the interests of TASA’s postgraduate members. The PGSC consists of a maximum of seven members who usually serve a two-year term and meet online approximately six times a year as well as face-to-face at the annual conference.
The deadline for nominations has been extended to February 17th. For the full details, read on...
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | |
Jovanovski, N. (2023). 'Qualitative research in Women's and Gender Studies: The 'radical focus group' as feminist praxis' (pp. 93-114). In How to conduct qualitative research in social science (P. Liamputtong., ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Keogh, L., Jovanovski, N., MacLean, S., & Chenhall, R. (2023). ''Theory' in qualitative research: A framework that synthesises existing academic advice' (pp. 14-34). In How to conduct qualitative research in social science (P. Liamputtong., ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing.
| Hughes, M, Whitaker, L., & Rugendyke, B. (2023). Engendering social inclusion and success for refugee women through place-based empowering practices. Australian Geographer, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2160047
| 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.
| XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Melbourne, Australia | June 25 - July 1, 2023
| TASA is offering several bursaries to TASA members, see the below list, to assist members to attend the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in June this year. If you have had an abstract accepted for the Congress then you may be eligible to apply for one of the bursaries. Applications close on February 6th, 2023. Note, bursary recipients will be expected to attend the ISA 2023 World Congress, Melbourne, in person.
Note, the early bird registration for ISA 2023 closes on March 22nd.
| | 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
| TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events | Healthy Societies 2023: Southern Perspectives
June 22nd, 2023, Sydney
Keynote: Professor Nelson Filice de Barros
For the full details, read on...
| Australian Welfare Reform: Crafting Out Alternative Futures
June 22nd, Melbourne
Keynote: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London)
| Disrupted plans, digital modalities, and undecided futures
June 22nd, 2023, Melbourne
Plenary Speakers: Professor Crystal Abidin (Curtin University), Dr Joshua Kalemba (Flinders University), Dr Brendan Churchill (University of Melbourne), and Dr Jacqueline Menager (Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet).
| Transformative social science: a dialogue between evidence, policy and practice
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Panellists: A/Prof Catherine Robinson, UTAS (sociologist), Anna Adcock (sociologist & Māori scholar), Research Fellow in the Centre for Women's Health Research, Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati (sociologist) & Dr Simone Casey, Senior Policy Advisor ACOSS (social policy)
For the full details, read on...
| Single parenting, co-parenting, and post-separation families: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynotes: Dr Moeata Keil (University of Auckland), Professor Kathryn Edin (Princeton University), and Professor Kay Cook (Swinburne University).
For the full details, read on...
| ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and
Transitions to Adulthood
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
For the full details, read on...
| Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Nelson Filice de Barros
For the full details, read on...
| Working Together Ways Yarning Circle
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Carol Vale and Dr Penny Taylor
For the full details, read on...
| Decentering knowledge in researching migration from the Global South
June 24th, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote speakers: Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor of Sociology, Australian Catholic University & Lan Anh Hoang, Associate Professor in Development Studies, the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne.
For the full details, read on...
| Place Economies
Date: TBC - Adelaide
Keynote: Professor Ian Woodward, Southern Denmark University
For further details, read on...
| TASA Thursdays
We hope you can attend our first TASA Thursdays event for 2023 on 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights and the current scene’ with panellists Raewyn Connell, Pam Nilan, Joshua Roose, & Mario Peucker.
Thursday 16 February, 2023, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT.
Registration for this event is available here.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 4 (December 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| 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
| | | | New: Research Associate
Sydney Centre for Health Societies
0.5FTE, flexibility with location and hours
Expression of Interest (EoI) deadline: asap.
You can access the EoI form here.
| | | New: 2 Lecturers in Culture and Society, School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Western Sydney University, Parramatta campus
x1 Full-Time, Ongoing Position
x1 Part-Time(0.5FTE), Ongoing Position
Assistant Professor - Sociology
Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for 2023-24 and 2024-25.
The Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS) at the University of Tokyo
For details, including application instructions, salary and housing arrangements, and further information, please see the position description. Applications are due 1 February. Enquiries should be directed to kate.dariansmith@utas.edu.au
| 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 project that complements an Australian Research Council funded study on Informal Sport, Urban Diversity and Social Resilience.
The research is led by fellow members Amanda Wise (MQ) and Kristine Aquino (UTS) et al. under whose supervision the successful candidate will work.
| | 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 | Election of the ISA Executive Committee 2023-2027
| The International Sociological Association (ISA) are seeking nominations from National Associations for their 2023-2027 Executive Committee. Candidates must have been ISA individual members in good standing since the previous World Congress and must still be so at the time when the Nominating Committees finalise their list. Nominations must be supported by two individual ISA members in good standing, or delegates to the Council of National Associations from associations in good standing, and including evidence of the candidate’s consent.
| | Calling Australian folks who are non-binary, genderqueer, agender, or anything between / beyond the binary of man or woman. Please consider participating in a study conducted by a non-binary research team (Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark and Eden Dowers) for a 1-2 hour interview on identity, society and gender.
$50 reimbursement
| | | Call for Papers - Journal
| New: China and Climate Change: Towards a Socially Inclusive and Just Transition
Social Inclusion
Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion
| | Western Sydney University are proud to announce that they are hosting the 2023 Queer Displacements Conference – the second Asia-Pacific conference to cover LGBTIQ+ asylum and migration!
22-23 February 2023 | Western Sydney University (Parramatta City campus).
The Queer Displacements is the first and only conference in the Asia Pacific designed to comprehensibly foreground protection and settlement challenges of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) forcibly displaced people. It is created to champion the voices and the lived experience of LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced people. The Queer Displacements conference is the space for awareness raising, solidarity, building alliances and engaging the whole of society in ensuring justice, protection and solutions for LGBTIQ+ people in forced displacement.
Register to attend today. Spaces are limited. Register here. | | | World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
World Convention
(In)Justice International
Finland March 28-31
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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