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We invite you to submit your latest publication/s for inclusion in one of our upcoming newsletters. It is a great opportunity to share your research, articles, and other sociological work with fellow members and beyond. Whether you have recently published a paper, contributed to a book, podcast, radio segment etc. we welcome your contribution. We also welcome news about events and job and/or scholarship opportunities. Please email all details to Sally in TASA Admin.
| We extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Adriana Haro who has had their first sole authored journal article from their PhD published:
| | TASA's Postgraduate Impact and Engagement Award Webinar
| | Join us TODAY 1st August, 12:30PM - 1:30PM (AEST), for an engaging online webinar dedicated to discussing TASA's Postgraduate Impact and Engagement Award.
This session will provide invaluable insights for aspiring applicants, featuring a panel including the member who developed the Award (Ben), a past winner (Ellen), and a seasoned applied sociologist (Catherine).
| | | "How to Convene a TASA Thematic Group: A rough guide" A special online meeting
With presentations from two current Thematic Group (TG) convenors, this meeting will include plenty of time for questions and discussion, as well as practical suggestions, ideas, and lessons from past experiences.
Speakers:
Peta Cook: A sociologist at the University of Tasmania, Peta is currently the co-convener of the Ageing and Sociology thematic group and has previously been convener of the Teaching Sociology thematic group. Notably, Peta has also been on TASA’s national executive as Vice President, Treasurer, and Thematic Group Portfolio Leader. She received TASA’s Sociology in Action Award in 2020
Catriona Stevens: Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab at Edith Cowan University, Catriona's interests include class and migration, transnational ageing and caregiving, and the abuse of older people (elder abuse). She co-convenes the TASA Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group and is a board member for ISA Research Committee 31 Sociology of Migration.
All welcome, including TG conveners from beginners to “veterans”. (If you know folks who are not yet convenors but interested, feel free to forward them the meeting link below.)
Hosted by Tom Barnes, TASA's Thematic Group Portfolio Leader
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As we didn't receive any nominations for the Vice-President and Postgraduate portfolios, nominations for those two roles have been reopened. Details on how to nominate for either role can be found on TASAweb here.
Nominations close: August 5th.
Note, we also didn't receive expressions of interest for our Digital Publications Editor(s) position. The position description can be viewed here. Please email your expression of interest to Sally in TASA Admin by Monday August 5th, 2024. | As mentioned in last week's newsletter, more than one nomination was received for the Equity & Inclusion, Public Sociology, and Thematic Groups Portfolios so we have moved to a vote. Your participation in this voting process is crucial, as it helps shape the future direction of our association. If you haven't voted already, we encourage you to do so via the orange button below, by midday August 14th:
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Marisela Velazquez (2024) “Episode 66: Reflexivity in intersectional qualitative research practices”. Between the Data - NVivo Podcast, Lumivero, 17 June. Note, the interview focused on the ways Marisela engages in reflexivity as a qualitative researcher and their use of NVivo Software for storing, organizing and analyzing diverse qualitative research projects.
| Hopefully you received our dedicated email sent earlier this week regarding the Journal of Sociology 2026 special issue, which will be selected and managed by the incoming Editors in Chief for 2025-2028, fellow members Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn.
Expression of interest deadline: September 30th. Read on...
| Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Special Issue
Health Sociology Review, Volume 33, Issue 2 (2024)
To access all articles of the special issue, read on...
|  | At the start of 2021, TASA introduced a new initiative, 'The Australian Sociological Association’s Workshop Program', which was subsequently renamed the Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program.
There is up to AU$5,000 available (per workshop) for up to 2 workshops, to be held in Australia.
About the Workshop Program
- Presenting TASA outwardly – engaging with the community
- Potential for feeding into policy
- Connecting with the research community
- Bringing experts in from the community
Successful workshops will advance research within sociology and showcase TASA as the face of sociological/interdisciplinary research in the region; engaging with issues of national concern; advancement of knowledge; support innovative ideas, and, the potential of feeding into policy and practice development.
Expression of interest deadline: August 26th.
|  | | We are excited to announce that the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Generations and Housing Symposium has been extended to Friday, August 9, 2024. This extension provides additional time for you to contribute to this important event.
About the Symposium
The Generations and Housing Symposium, to be held as a hybrid event on Monday, November 25, 2024, at Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus and Online, will address the complex 'wicked problem' of housing in Australia. The symposium will explore the multifaceted issues surrounding housing affordability, availability, and policy challenges.
Call for Papers
We invite submissions that explore the ‘wicked problem’ of housing, challenge contemporary approaches, and provide innovative insights. Abstracts are invited from presenters who are willing to present either online or in person. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Affordable housing solutions and rising housing costs
- Public/social housing challenges
- Housing precarity and homelessness
- Housing needs of ageing populations
- Tiny/small homes' policy and planning
- Generational tensions in the asset economy
- Strategies for housing acquisition
- Housing insecurity and lifecourse impacts
- Sustainable and inclusive housing development
- Planning and design challenges
| Research Fellow
Curtin University
The position is based at the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab (IERLab) housed within the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI).
| 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 Scholarship (open call)
Melbourne Social Equity Institute
University of Melbourne
PhD Scholarship - Reproductive Justice
Melbourne Social Equity Institute
University of Melbourne
Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship
Queensland University of Technology
Established to honour Dr Clare Burton, this scholarship is open to students of all Australian universities undertaking master and doctoral research degrees.
| | 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 | New: What makes a good childhood in Australia today?
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child
Wednesday August 7th, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
| The Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) Fellowship Program
ACSPRI's mission is to help foster high-quality teaching and research in the social sciences and to enhance the impact of social science research. To help achieve this mission, ACSPRI is pleased to continue the ACSPRI Fellowship Program supporting the next generation of high-quality researchers in the social sciences. Valued at $25,000, the fellowship will help PhD students to achieve their career goals, by providing direct financial support and professional development opportunities.
Application deadline: September 30th. Read on....
| Call for Co-Editor in Chief
| Sociology Compass
The role is focused on the Original Research section of the journal and will commence in 2025.
The position comes with a generous stipend, and the journal has done well in terms of Impact Factor and ranking over the past couple of years (they are ranked 13th by Google Scholar).
You can find more details about the role and apply here.
| Special Issues - Call for Abstracts
| Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts
Current Sociology Monographs
This Monograph brings migration studies into dialogue with the sociology of class to interrogate how these two fields intersect. Recognising the challenges that contemporary migration presents to extant approaches to conceptualising class, contributing papers will present cases from diverse global contexts as a source of theory building. We take inspiration from the need to translate between concepts, systems, languages and cultures in migration studies, and argue that considering class from migration contexts provides opportunities to develop a new grammar of class theory. Through migration, class boundaries are formed, changed or dissolved, and new classed practices and positions emerge. The social and spatial mobility inherent to migration processes invites us to move away from epistemically centred approaches to class and reframe our thinking through comparison and conceptual translation.
Papers are invited that respond to these theoretical challenges.
Deadline for 300 word abstract: 1 September 2024. Read on...
| TikTok Cultures in Korea
TikTok Cultures Research Network
Online, September 9th
Innovative methods for exploring financial abuse
Hawthorn, 10am-4pm, Monday 9 September (as part of Social Sciences Week)
Morning tea and lunch provided, including full barista service
A limited number of travel bursaries are available to support interstate HDR/ECR attendance
Expression of interest deadline: TODAY 1 August. Read on...
Emotions of the Future
Friday 22 November
Macquarie University, Sydney
| Workshop Program Grants
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
The Workshops Program offers Australian social scientists financial assistance to host multidisciplinary workshops which aim to advance research and policy agendas on nationally important issues. The Academy supports up to eight workshops each year with funding to a maximum of $9,000 (excl GST).
| Social Sciences Week 2024
Hosted by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
9-15 September 2024
Social Sciences Week is an annual event that celebrates and promotes the social sciences to a diverse audience of students, researchers, policymakers, and the public. During the week, a wide range of activities take place, including keynote lectures, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, and interactive events. These activities are hosted by leading universities, research institutes, and non-profit organisations across the country.
If you would like to get involved by running your own Social Sciences Week events, you have until the end of July to register them on our website. Once events are registered, we will publish them on the Social Sciences Week events calendar and begin promoting on social media. You can find more information about running your own event here, or email Anna Dennis, at the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, with any questions.
|  | The more members TASA has, the stronger our association can be.
To help spread the word about TASA, you can quickly and easily gift a TASA membership to someone from within your TASA membership profile.
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Watch the very short video (1:30) to learn how to join a thematic group/s.
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To learn how to search the Membership Directory, watch this very short video (1 min).
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All of these changes can be done quickly and easily. To learn how, watch this video (1 min). |
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Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do email through details of your latest publication/s (fully referenced & with a link, where possible), events, job adverts etc. for the next newsletter, to TASA Admin. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning. |
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To access the book discount, click on the following link and then log in to TASAweb: book discount link. |
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