| The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. | | | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
We hope you can join us for our next TASA Thursdays event on Sport, Community and Social Inclusion with speakers Ramon Spaaij, Karen Block & Adele Pavlidis & Maia Tua-Davidson. Next Thursday March 16th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT. You can register for the event here.
As mentioned in last week's newsletter, we are calling for volunteers for the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology that is being held in Melbourne June 25th to July 1. It is a terrific and exciting opportunity to be among a huge gather of sociologists from around the world. There is complimentary registration available for volunteers. If you have any questions about this opportunity, please email Sally in TASA Admin.
| | New Postgraduate Sub-Committee
| We are pleased to announce the new Postgraduate Sub-Committee (PGSC) for the 2023-2024 term:
- Richa George – Monash University (Postgraduate Portfolio Leader)
- Sarah Alzoubi – Western Sydney University
- Mavis Boamah – Swinburne University
- Natalie Calleja – University of Melbourne
- Estelle Keerthana – Deakin University
- Caitlan McLean – Torrens University
The PGSC looks forward to creating opportunities for TASA’s postgraduate members to improve peer support, establish wider networks of academic and industry practitioners, and further all-round development during this term.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology |
Holt, M., MacGibbon, J., Smith, A. K. J., Broady, T. R., Davis, M. D. M., & Newman, C. E. (2023). Knowledge of Australia’s My Health Record and factors associated with opting out: Results from a national survey of the Australian general population and communities affected by HIV and sexually transmissible infections. PLOS Digital Health, 2(3), e0000200. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000200 [OPEN ACCESS]
Fomiatti, R., Toffoletti, K., & Pienaar, K. (2023). Rethinking Women’s “Performance and Image-Enhancing Drug Consumption”: An Agenda for Ontopolitically-Oriented Research. Contemporary Drug Problems. https://doi.org/10.1177/00914509231154938 [OPEN ACCESS]
Kelaita, P, Pienaar, K, Keaney, J, Murphy, D, Vally, H & Bennett, CM (2023) Pandemic policing and the construction of publics: an analysis of COVID-19 lockdowns in public housing, Health Sociology Review, DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2023.2170260 [OPEN ACCESS]
Collyer, F.M. and Dufoix, S. (2022) 'Repenser la boussole eìpisteìmique' ['Rethinking the Epistemic Compass'] Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines. Volume 42:7-30. (hardcopy in French, English and French versions available online). https://doi.org/10.4000/rhsh.7399 [OPEN ACCESS]
| 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.
| | Career Development Grant - 2023
| The annual TASA Career Development Grant seeks to support the career development activities of TASA members where these activities are not covered by other funding.
A total of $4,500 is available, with a maximum of $1,500 available per applicant.
Application deadline: 20th May. Read on...
| | 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 Thursdays
We have several TASA Thursdays event lined up:
March 16th: Sport, Community and Social Inclusion. Speakers: Maia Tua-Davidson, Ramon Spaaij, Karen Block & Adele Pavlidis. You can register for the event here.
April 20th: Live Music, Careers and a Rebounding Industry. Speakers: Catherine Strong, Fabian Cannizzo, Sam Whiting & Ben Green. You can register for the event here.
May 18th: Climate change and climate change activism. Speakers: Liv Hamilton, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant & Milo Kei
June 15th: The Voice. Speakers: Joann Schmider (Indigenous Portfolio Leader) and others TBC.
If you would like to be a presenter/panellist for one of our TASA Thursdays events, please contact Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Editor.
| Professoriate Lecture
Curtin University, TODAY March 9th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm AWST
Speaker: fellow member Farida Fozdar 'A reluctant Professor - Incontinence, Australia Day car flags, redundancies, and Global Futures'
| 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 Valeria Pulignano
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: July 5th and 6th- Adelaide. The first afternoon/evening (i.e., the 5th) will be at UniSA City West; the second full day (i.e., the 6th) will be at Flinders Victoria Square Campus.
Keynote: Professor Ian Woodward, Southern Denmark University
For further details, read on...
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| | Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls Issue 2, 2024 | Submission deadline extended to March 20th: 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
For the full details of the call, read on...,
| New: Research Consultant / Senior Research Consultant
The Insight Centre
A rare opportunity for a senior researcher to play a leading role in a growing, multi-disciplinary research agency by designing and delivering research for impact for the forpurpose and not-for-profit sector.
Working alongside fellow member Shanthi Robertson.
Research Fellow
Griffith University
This position is for an experienced Research Fellow, Grade 2 (0.6 FTE) to work with a team of scholars on a recently funded ARC Project, ‘Engaging Outsiders In Sport: Transforming Sport Event Legacy Planning’, which aims to investigate intersectional inequities in sport participation for girls, women and non-binary people in Queensland by working with them to envision legacies for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Research Fellow
Australian National University
Carry out independent and collaborative research on the governance of health, technoscience and well-being
| 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.
| | | | 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 | How can we redress and repair violence, abuse and neglect of people living with dementia in residential aged care?
Dementia Reparations Principles and project report
Australian focused launch, 13 March (AEST timezone)
Researchers Linda Steele (University of Technology Sydney) and Kate Swaffer (Dementia Alliance International) in conversation with: Yumi Lee (Older Women's Network of NSW), Bill Mitchell OAM LLD (Townsville Community Law), Theresa Flavin (dementia human rights activist and advocate). Read on....
International human rights focused launch, 23 March (EST and CET timezones)
Researchers Linda Steele (University of Technology Sydney) and Kate Swaffer (Dementia Alliance International) in conversation with: Professor Claudia Mahler (United Nations Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of all Human Rights by Older Person), Professor Israel Issi Doron (University of Haifa), Bethany Brown (International Disability Alliance). Read on...
Note: the reports will be publicly available on March 13 here.
| SHAPE Futures Network
Launched in September 2022, the SHAPE Futures is an early- and mid-career network for the disciplines of the humanities, creative arts and social sciences. Their purpose is to ensure the humanities, arts and social sciences thrive and excel in Australia, by fostering an inclusive and diverse community that supports, empowers and promotes Australian early and mid-career researchers, within and beyond academia.
They encourage those who might consider themselves to be early or mid-career researchers (typically up to 15 years post-PhD, excluding career interruptions) to join the Network; there is no cost to join. Their website provides information on ways that the network can support EMCRs, including advocacy, networking opportunities, and increased visibility of opportunities, resources, and avenues of support. A crucial part of their work is the EMCR cohort survey, which will help build our understanding of the needs of this diverse group, informing our strategies for representation, advocacy, opportunities and network-building. The survey closes in mid-March.
| Call for Papers - Journal
| China and Climate Change: Towards a Socially Inclusive and Just Transition
Social Inclusion
Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion
| Connections, Collisions, Collapse
Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference
15th-16th June, South Australia
The 2023 Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference Committee is currently accepting abstract submissions for full-length, short and panel presentations, as well as proposals for visual artworks to be displayed. We are in the process of seeking permission from Kaurna Elders to host the conference at UniSA in the Bradley Forum. The event will be held on Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th of June. With this year’s theme of Connections, Collisions, Collapse we hope to envision futures that deconstruct our current world from a variety of perspectives.
Submission deadline: March 13. Read on....
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
World Convention
(In)Justice International
Finland March 28-31
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