| Dear ~~first_name~~,
We are pleased to announce that TASA Thursdays will be delivered once again throughout 2024. As such, we are calling for expressions of interest from TASA members who would be interested in sharing their work.
TASA Thursdays provide an opportunity for members to showcase their research or present on a topical issue, while also being a great platform for sociologists to connect with likeminded people.
If you would be interested in participating in the 2024 calendar of TASA Thursdays, please complete the following Expression of Interest form prior to Friday 5 January 2024.
Alternatively, if you have questions regarding TASA Thursdays, please contact Penny Toth, TASA Events Manager via events@tasa.org.au. |  | | Save the date!
TASA Tea Time has evolved and will now be a Book Club. Our very first TASA Book Club shall be taking place online on Thursday February 29th, 2024 at 6pm (AEDT). We are happy to invite you to join us, and welcome book nominations that you believe fellow TASA members would enjoy exploring. We shall focus upon works that have some form of societal reflective element that could be a work of fiction, non-fiction, or something in between. Please send your suggestions to Aisling Bailey aabailey@swin.edu.au, our Equity & Inclusion Portfolio Leader, and we will announce the first book to be discussed in a January newsletter. We look forward to seeing you on February 29th.
| | TASA 2023 Colloquium Recordings
| | Thank you to everyone who supported this year's TASA 2023 Colloquium at the University of Sydney.
For those of you who would like to catch up or re-watch some of the great presentations delivered throughout the event, you can now access some of the recordings via our TASA 2023 Website.
Please note: Not all sessions were recorded. | | | Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 252pp.
| Ben Lohmeyer, Kirsten Macaitis & Richard Schirmer (2023) Jesus, the Bible and ‘I feel like I should be left-leaning’: The liberalising effect of sociology and diffused religion in Australian non-university faith-based higher education, Journal of Beliefs & Values, DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2023.2291623
| This Health Sociology Review special issue puts sociology in conversation with burgeoning palliative care scholarship addressing questions of wellbeing. Biomedical approaches continue to dominate approaches to care and caregiving within palliative and end-of-life contexts. Although palliative care is broadly acknowledged to call for human-centred forms of practice and care, relationality and social aspects are often lowlighted with conversations dominated by questions of its modelling, measuring, and funding. This special issue poses sociological challenges and alternative approaches to practice in public health systems.
Abstract submission deadline: 13th February. Read on... | Stephen Crook Memorial Prize was established to honour the memory of Professor Stephen Crook in recognition of his significant contribution to Australian sociology. The Prize is awarded biennially, at TASA's Conference, to the best authored monograph within the discipline of Sociology published in the previous two years.
Raewyn Connell Prize is to honour the work of Professor Raewyn Connell in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Australian Sociology. In particular, it honours her contribution to sociological theory and research, and her support and encouragement of sociologists at the beginning of their careers.
Honours/Masters Student Award is given annually to the best Honours/Masters student in Sociology in each Australian university. Each winner receives a one-year student membership to TASA, making the student eligible for conference discounts, membership of Thematic Groups, the weekly members’ newsletter, online access to sociology journals (full text) and self-promotion opportunities in Nexus. For the full details, and to nominate your top Honours/Masters student in Sociology, read on... | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Research
University of Tasmania
Application deadline: Friday 2 February 2024, 11.55pm. Read on....
Research Fellow - Multiple Positions
The Australia Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW)
Monash University
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, International Politics and Policy
James Cook University
Full Time - Continuing
The position will only remain open until filled.
Lecturer, Anthropology
James Cook University
Full Time - Continuing
The position will only remain open until filled.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow in Sociology
University of Sydney
Application deadline: 1st February, 2024. Read on...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in epidemiology/quantitative social science/demography
University of Sydney
Full time, Camperdown campus
Please note that the University shutdown period is from Friday 22nd December 2023 to Monday 8th January 2024. Applications and queries will be reviewed once they return from leave. 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.
| | | New: An exciting PhD stipend opportunity has arisen for a student to join the team at the ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab in beautiful Perth, Western Australia.
The PhD research project will align with fellow member Catriona Steven's ongoing program of research with possible topic areas including:
- Migration trajectories and career aspirations of aged care sector care-workers and clinicians
- Education and training of care-workers, including those from culturally diverse backgrounds
- Cross-cultural communication and relationships between staff, clients and families in aged care services
- Social class and migration, particularly intra-ethnic class relationships and intersectional classed positions
- Abuse of older people occurring in ethnically-diverse families and family-like relationships
Candidates should have completed Honours or Masters research in Sociology, Anthropology or a related discipline.
Please pass on this information to suitably qualified, excellent students, and share this email in your networks.
New: HDR Scholarship - Community based mental health and wellbeing primary prevention strategies
Deakin University is offering a unique PhD scholarship opportunity focusing on community participation in mental health and wellbeing primary prevention strategies. The research will explore a range of factors impacting mental health and wellbeing outcomes of families facing adversity, including their participation in prevention initiatives.
Rainbow Families PhD Top-Up Scholarship
University of New South Wales
Researching the experiences and needs of LGBTQ+ parents and their children, and developing skills in collaborative community-led research
| | 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. | | | | In case you are not aware, you can add job and scholarship opportunities to our publicly searchable Jobs & Scholarships Board via your TASA membership profile, see image below: | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | Social Sciences Week 2024
9-15 September 2024
SSW2024 promises to be even more fun, insightful and intelligent than ever before. So mark your calendars, spread the word and get ready for a week of activities.
| STS approaches to study contestations of medical evidence-based knowledge and recommendations
This panel at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam (16-19 July, 2024) is open for abstract submissions until 12 February. Please submit through this link: P151: STS approaches to study contestations of medical evidence-based knowledge and recommendations (nomadit.co.uk)
The past decades have seen an increasing prominence of social movements related to vaccine hesitancy, nutrition debates, and complementary and alternative medicine. Here, people’s perceptions about science come into conflicting relationships with biomedical research, recommendations and the work of formal experts and clinicians.
How, and with what effects, do these movements contest established medical knowledge? How do formal experts, clinicians, and policymakers respond to these contestations? What new discursive spaces, such as digital platforms, have emerged that offer room for contestation? What role do new scientific practices, such as citizen science, play in these contestations? This panel seeks to bring together multidisciplinary STS research that engages with these questions across medical fields, ranging from screening to prevention and treatments. Across these areas, social movements, many of which have a long history, challenge established hierarchies of knowledge and seek to make space for the expertise of actors whose knowledge has been marginalized. There is also contestation within and between these movements about what counts as evidence. These debates, in turn, may produce new knowledge hierarchies, or see medical evidence mobilized in new ways. Studying how these contestations and movements are developing is essential for understanding the extent to which the dominance of medicine is challenged or reinforced.
STS approaches and methodologies are well-suited to study the complexity of conflicts around medical knowledge and evidence, especially how these contestations manifest themselves and are produced through both clinical practices and wider societal discourses. We welcome empirical papers that explore practices of contestations of biomedical knowledge and formal expertise as well as conceptual contributions that discuss the effects of these contestations for health care governance.
Convenors:
Pia Vuolanto (Tampere University, Finland)
Caragh Brosnan (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Katharina T. Paul (University of Vienna, Austria)
Jenny-Ann Danell (Umea University, Sweden) | 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:
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