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Date: 4/12/2023
Subject: TASA members newsletter: April 13
From: TASA



The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. 
Dear ~~first_name~~,  
 
We hope you can join us next week for our TASA Thursdays event on April 20th at 12:30pm, AEST. Fabian Cannizzo, Ben Green, Sam Whiting & Catherine Strong will be discussing Live Music, Careers and a Rebounding Industry. You can register for the event here.
 
As a reminder, as a TASA member, you can access the full text version of 90,000+ journal articles via your TASAweb login. If needed, a short instruction video is available here. You also have full access to the SAGE Research Methods Collection, which includes full-text Books, References, Little Green Books (quantitative), Little Blue Books (qualitative), Cases, Datasets, Videos and Podcasts!
 
Resources on the Voice 
We are collecting resources on the Voice. If you have something to add to the below list, please email the details (with links) to TASA Admin.
 
Members' Engaging Sociology

Journals

Lara McKenzie & Katie Attwell (2023)‘I’m provax’: Pro-vaccination personal histories and socialities of older Australians in the COVID-1 pandemic. Sociology of Health and Illness. [OPEN ACCESS]
 
Perales, F., Kuskoff, E., Flood, M., & King, T. (2023, 2023/04/05). Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology. Sex Roles. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01364-y [OPEN ACCESS]
 
Dewey, B., & Fozdar, F. (2023). Atrapados / trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2193865 [OPEN ACCESS]
 
Munday, J., Watts, A., & Clark, E. (2023). Collections from the asylum: Past lives, present tense. The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 16(1), 53–73. https://doi.org/10.18848/1835-2014/CGP/v16i01/53-73

News and Analysis

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.
  

Videos

 
Ricki Spencer (2023) TASA Media Voices: Interview with Dr Anthony Dillon. TASA, April 11th. 
 
Ricki Spencer (2023) TASA Media Voices: Interview with Dr Walker. TASA, April 6th. 
 

Awards/Grants

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
Students nominated to date, for the 2022 Award, include:
  • Deakin University - Hamish Tanian
  • La Trobe University - Hannah Lacey
  • Newcastle University - Blake Richards
  • Swinburne University - Xavier Mills
  • University of Melbourne - Charan Naidoo
  • University of Sydney - Matthew Friedman
 

Events

TASA Thursdays
We have several TASA Thursdays event lined up:
 
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: TASA . Speakers: Liv Hamilton, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant & Milo Kei. You can register for the event here.
 
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.
 
TASA Tea Time
Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Portfolio Leader, has offered to run the next TASA Tea Time session on May 3rd, at 12:30pm AEST, via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85180290093?pwd=V2ttSWpOSW9pTkw0dE5janFOMGdPdz09
Meeting ID: 851 8029 0093 / Passcode: 774893
 

Narratives, needs, networks: understanding militant wellness

Health Sociology Thematic Group Online Seminar Series
Tuesday April 18th, 1-2pm (Vic/NSW, ACT, Tasmania)

Speaker: fellow member Vivian Gerrand
For details, and to register, read on...
 

TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events

#HS23 Epistemic Justice for Healthy Societies
June 20th, 2023, Sydney. 12:30pm - 4:00pm AEST. 
Keynotes: Associate Professor Seye Abimbola (University of Sydney, Australia); Professor Nelson de Barros (University of Campinas, Brazil); Associate Professor Anita Benoit (University of Toronto, Canada); and Associate Professor Nazrul Islam (BNU-HKBU United International College, China)
For the full details, and to register, read on...
(note recent event title, keynotes and date change)

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).
For the full details, read on...

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), and Prof Barry Judd, University of Melbourne (Indigenous studies)
For the full details, read on...

Single parenting ISA event flyer
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...

Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Valeria Pulignano
For the full details, read on...

Mobile transitions
‘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...

Australian Welfare Reform: Crafting Out Alternative Futures
June 22nd, Melbourne
Keynote: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London)
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; and Irudayja Rajan, Professor at the International Institute for Migration and Development (IIMAD), Kerela, India.
Registration closes May 30th. You can register here. 
For the full details,  read on...

Place Economies
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...

TASA Publications

Journal of Sociology

Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
 
Employment
Visiting Fellowships
Curtin University
TikTok Cultures Research Network (2 fellowships). For details, Read on...
Influencer Ethnography Research Lab (2 fellowships). For details, Read on...
Application deadline for both: April 30th. 
 
Tenure-Track faculty member
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Applicants specialising in computational social science, text mining, social network analysis, and data science are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: June 20. Read on...
 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Tasmania
A central focus of the role will be management of the UTAS Rough Sleepers Initiative

Application deadline:
April 23. 
Read on...
 

Jobs Board

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.
Current Employment Opportunities
PhD Scholarships

Scholarships Board

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.
Current Scholarship Opportunities
Other Events, News & Opportunities

Memorial

A public Memorial for Dr Christopher Baker (Christopher was a co-editor of Nexus, along side Sue Malta, for the term 2014-2015). 
TOMORROW 14th April, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm AEST
 
The Memorial is planned with two parts:
  • Unveiling of plaque, Fawkner Memorial Park, 1187 Sydney Rd, Hadfield VIC 3060. Please meet at the office at 10am, and then move to the tree memorial site for a short service. Please see this map for the location if needed.
  • Memorial, Toscana Social Club, 273 Victoria St, Brunswick 2.00pm for a 2.30pm start, followed by refreshments. (formalities for an hour or so)
If you would like to speak to different parts of Christopher's life, please contact suemalta@gmail.com or 0409 433 077 to coordinate a time.

If you have photos to share of Christopher, for a slideshow please email Amanda at amadar1@bigpond.com.

Other people are still welcome to continue to RSVP here, and please feel free to pass on these details to others.
 

Call for Journal Board Members

Sociological Research Online & Cultural Sociology
The British Sociological Association are looking for Board members interested in making a contribution to the discipline, to fellow authors and to the journals through peer reviewing and also through discussions about the strategy and directions of the journals.
Expression of interest deadline: Tuesday, 25 April
Read on...
 

Public Lectures

Law and Emotion: A misunderstood relation
The lecture is being presented by two leading North American scholars in Law and Emotion: Professor Susan Bandes (DePaul University, Chicago) and Professor Richard Weisman (York University, Canada).
Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW, Law Courts Building
Tuesday 16 May (5.15pm reception for a 6pm start).
For details and the speakers, read on...
For event details, and to register, read on...
 

Conferences

Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice
June 16 - 19, 2023, Zanzibar University’s main campus and Stone Town, Zanzibar
Submission deadline: April 15.  
Read on...
 
Policy innovation for inclusive internet governance
Policy & Internet Conference 2023
Sep 28-29, The University of Sydney
Submission deadline: April 16. 
Read on...
 
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
Submission deadline: August 1. Read on...
 
 
TASA Gift Memberships
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:
 
STEP 1: Click here and log in

STEP 2: Click on the drop down menu to the right of your name in the purple bar (RH) at the top of the website (see 1st image below)
 
STEP 3: Click on Profile (see 1st image below)
 
STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. 
Profile Steps 2
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 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.
 
For assistance with updating your Member Profile on TASA web please see the video tutorial: Updating your Member Profile
 
TASA Documents and Policies
In case you are not aware, you can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2023 - 2024, and their respective portfoliosas well as documents and policies, including the ConstitutionValues StatementStatement on Academic FreedomCode of Conduct, Grievance Procedures Safe & Inclusive EventsSustainable Events and TASA History
 
Accessing Online Materials & Resources
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