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We hope you can join us for TODAY'S TASA Thursdays event, July 13th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm, The sticky stuff – the question of ethics in digital research, hosted by TASA's Postgraduate Portfolio Leader Richa George. See poster below for speaker details.
| It is with great pleasure that we extend our warm congratulations to long term fellow member (and previous Executive member) Eileen Clark who has been awarded a PhD by Charles Sturt University for a thesis entitled Snapshots from Mayday Hills: A multidisciplinary study of Beechworth’s psychiatric hospital, 1900–1995. Supervisors were Dr Jennifer Munday and Dr Angela Ragusa.
We also extend our congratulations to fellow member Dan Woodman who was recently elected as a general Executive member of the International Sociological Association.
| Proposed New Thematic Group:
Sociology of Music | Fellow members Andy Bennett, Sam Whiting, Ben Green and Catherine Strong are preparing a proposal for a new TASA Thematic Group, Sociology of Music. The draft proposal can be viewed here. If you would like to add your name to those endorsing the proposed group and expressing an interest to join, please contact Ben Green. Queries and suggestions are also welcome. The proposal will be submitted to TASA’s Thematic Group portfolio leader next Wednesday 19 July.
| Nominations for the following three TASA Awards close soon:
Nominations close on July 17th.
| | TASA 2023 Call for Abstracts |  | In case you missed our email earlier this week, we are happy to announce that a call for abstracts for TASA 2023 is now open.
Held from Monday 27 November - Wednesday 29 November, TASA 2023’s theme, ‘Sustaining the Social: Voices, Culture, Natures,’ takes up the sense of social unravelling and remaking in the context of the increasing ethical imperative to live generously with and alongside other voices, diverse cultural frames, and the many environments that sustain us.
The Colloquium will involve panel-based sessions, general paper sessions relevant to a TASA thematic group, plenaries, and social events.
We invite sociologists from all sectors – urban, regional and remote – to share their research insights and to connect their work to ways of sustaining the social.
Guidelines for Submission
Participants who wish to deliver a paper can either submit an abstract to the general paper sessions relevant to a TASA thematic group or to one of ten focused panel-based sessions listed below (note, if you submit to a panel session, you will also be required to select a relevant thematic group in case your abstract is not selected for a panel session):
1. Young people, financialization and new technologies
2. The politics of the climate crisis
3. The social life of pandemics within and beyond health systems
4. Sustaining care across species and scales
5. Supporting diverse families in times of crisis
6. Dynamics of the asset economy
7. Dangerous diasporas? Finding space for diaspora engagement in multicultural Australia
8. Live music, heritage, and sociality: Post-pandemic urban cultural citizenship
9. Towards a more convivial academia
10. The future of work and care: practices, tensions and ways forward
The abstract (200 word limit) submission deadline is Friday 4 August. It is expected that abstracts connect to the broad colloquium theme.
| | Travelling Scholar Lecture | |
TASA's Travelling Scholar Lecture: Judicial Work & Emotion
Next Wednesday July 17th.
| As mentioned in previous newsletters, 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 | |
Molldrem, S., Smith, A. K. J., & McClelland, A. (2023). Advancing Dialogue About Consent and Molecular HIV Surveillance in the United States: Four Proposals Following a Federal Advisory Panel’s Call for Major Reforms. The Milbank Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12663
Poulos, E. (2023) Three Discourses of Religious Freedom: How and Why Political Talk about Religious Freedom in Australia has Changed, Religions, 14(5) https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050669 [OPEN ACCESS]
Carland, Susan. 2022. "‘The Whole Concept of Social Cohesion, I Thought, “This Is So Qur’anic”’: Why Australian Muslim Women Work to Counter Islamophobia" Religions 13, no. 7: 670. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13070670 [OPEN ACCESS]
| |
More-than-Human Wellbeing Exhibition
Ash Watson, Megan Rose, Deborah Lupton, & Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor
The exhibition uses multimodal arts-based and multisensory methods – both digital and non-digital – to highlight ways of knowing and being within and beyond the world of self-tracking apps, electronic medical records, and smart devices for documenting illnesses and promoting health and wellbeing.
Open until Friday 18 August, UNSW Main Library Level 5
| Social Sciences Week (SSW) 2023
4th to the 10th of September.
In case you are not aware, SSW is an annual event that celebrates and showcases the diverse range of social sciences disciplines and research in Australia. ABC Radio National have expressed interest in the week and are keen to explore the program at the end of July to see where they can promote or cover any events.
For details, and to register events, visit the SSW website here.
| To celebrate the recent XX World Congress of Sociology, Sage have made all Journal of Sociology (JoS) articles free to access through to TOMORROW July 14th. You can access them via the JoS webpages here.
| | | | To celebrate the recent XX World Congress of Sociology, Taylor and Francis have made the following Health Sociology Review issues open access for the month of July:
| | | 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 | Parity
A Call for Contributions: Gender and Homelessness
What do we mean when we talk about having a “gendered understanding” of homelessness? The application of a gendered lens to housing and homelessness issues helps to identify and explain otherwise neglected experiences and practices, and contests dominant representations of homelessness. Without a consideration of gender, research, policy and practice remain limited in what they can offer those who experience the multiple oppressions associated with the inequalities that result from gendered experiences of homelessness.
Submission deadline: August 18. Read on...
| Fellowships
University of Basel - The Forum Basiliense
| Big Questions in Work-Family
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
June 20-22, 2024, Concordia University in Montreal Canada.
More than 500 stakeholders in the work-family field are anticipated to attend, with a dynamic program focused on meaningful exchanges.
Submissions open in August and close November 1, 2023. Read on...
| Casualisation, Precarity and Career in Higher Education
Postgraduate Event - European Sociological Association
Online, September 27th
Keynote: Raewyn Connell
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| | 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 portfolios, as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Values Statement, Statement on Academic Freedom, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures, Safe & Inclusive Events, Sustainable Events and TASA History.
| | Accessing Online Materials & Resources | | TASA members have access to over 90 peer-reviewed Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals encompassing over 63,000 articles. The image on the left shows you where to access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, when logged in to TASAweb. If needed, here is a short instructive video on how to access the journals. | | | | ARE YOU FOLLOWING TASA?
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