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With one month of the year completed (scary!), we are left with 12 days before TASA's biennial membership survey closes. If you haven't already, we ask that you complete survey via the orange link below. The survey results contribute to the direction of TASA.
Also, if you had a book published in 2022 or 2023 (as per the front matter of the book), we encourage you to nominate for the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize (A biennial prize for the best authored book in Australian Sociology) or the Raewyn Connell Prize (a biennial prize for the best first book by an author in Australian Sociology). The nomination deadline for both book awards is March 3rd.
| | Thematic Group Conveners: 2024/2025 | This week we are introducing you to the new convener for the Sociology of Education Thematic Group, Neville Buch. Neville will be in touch with group members soon. In case you are not aware, you can update your thematic group memberships via your membership profile. If you are not sure how to do that, please contact Sally in TASA Admin.
| | Dr Neville Buch is an expert on histories and historiography of big belief and doubt, researching on Freethought, Rationalism, Humanism, Unitarian-Universalism, during the 20th century. He has been a scholar in studies in religion and Australian-American intellectual history for 41 years, as well as a community participatory teacher for The Philosophy Café Brisbane Meet Up, and the Brisbane Meetup Intellectual Network. His work is currently internationalising with a collaboration of the Free Thinker Institute (New York City), in the development of a 1,000-page curriculum package manuscript into a commercially-viable guidebook for community education, based in Lebensphilosophie and Wissenschaft.
He has been a Q ANZAC Fellow at the State Library of Queensland (2015-2016), and a speech writer and higher education researcher, working with four Vice-Chancellors. Read on...
| | | | Thematic Groups - Call for New Conveners
| We are very happy to report that the number of thematic groups requiring conveners has reduced since last week's newsletter. We still have several groups without conveners for the 2024/2025 term, though. If you have an interest in any of the areas below, and you would like to find out more about convening one of the groups, please contact Tom Barnes and/or Sally in TASA Admin.
- Applied Sociology
- Cultural Sociology
- Risk Societies
- Rural Sociology
- Social Theory
- Sociology & Animals
| Fellow member Sam Whiting is organising a joint meet-up for Sociology of Youth and Sociology of Music thematic group members and prospective members in Adelaide in mid-February. The social catchup will be at 5pm, February 15th at Nearly Bar (179 Hindley Street, Adelaide).
Please get in touch with Sam at sam.whiting@unisa.edu.au to let him know if you can make it.
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Join us on Thursday 15th February 2024, for the first TASA Thursday session of the year.
Presented by guest speaker, and fellow member, Indigo Willing, this session is titled. "Skate Myth Busting - Shredding Stereotypes with Sociology."
Skateboarding is rapidly transforming, both as a subculture and now a high-performance sport that includes being in the Olympics. Notably, there is an increase in the participation of women and non-binary skaters. Accompanying these transformations is also a rise in skaters from various backgrounds who promote and push for social change.
This session aims to present a fun, express-lane exploration of stereotypes in skating and research papers by the presenter that one by one 'shred' them by highlighting key figures, approaches, and initiatives for change. The presentation concludes by introducing a new project 'Skate, Create, Educate and Re-generate' that explores where skating and creative sports are heading now, and how sociologists can become involved in leading these conversations.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 15th February 2024
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
| | TASA Book Club shall be taking place online on Thursday 29th February 2024 at 6pm (AEDT)
We invite you to join us as we explore this month's book: The invention of the 'underclass': a study in the politics of knowledge, Cambridge, Polity 2022 authored by Loïc Wacquant.
Event Details
Date: Thursday 29th February 2024
Time: 6pm - 7pm AEDT
Format: Zoom meeting - please note, login details will be provided to you upon registration to this event
Cost: Free
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
We also welcome book nominations that you believe fellow TASA members would enjoy exploring. Each month 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.
If you have book suggestion that you would like to share, please send your ideas to Aisling aabailey@swin.edu.au.
We hope you can join us and look forward to seeing you soon.
| Garth Stahl, Guanglun Michael Mu, Pere Ayling, Elliot B. Weininger (Eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research. Bloomsbury.
| This book is the first international reference work to showcase the diversity of ways of using Bourdieu's sociological toolkit in educational research. Written by scholars based in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the UK, and the USA, the handbook provides a unique and cutting-edge picture of how Bourdieu has been both used and adapted in educational research globally. The book will be useful for those who may only have a cursory knowledge of Bourdieu's tools as well as those who are already familiar with Bourdieu's work. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including educational leadership, teacher preparation, space/place, educational policy, literacy education, marginalised students, and student mobility. Read on... | | | Baker, Stephanie and Walsh, Michael (2024) “Memes Save Lives”: Stigma and the Production of Antivaccination Memes During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231224729 [OPEN ACCESS]
Maturi, J. (2024). Risk and abolition: perspectives of front-line domestic violence workers supporting refugee and migrant women on safety and policing. Contemporary Justice Review, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2024.2305932 [FULL ACCESS]
Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Bella Choo & Grace Lee-Khoo (2024) Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Inclusion: Disability-led Arts and its Radical Promise in Singapore, Critical Arts, DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2023.2295529
Moore, R, McLeod, K, Maystorovich Chulio, N (2024). The challenge of making relationships central in online cultural safety education. Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching. 7(1):1-12. https://doi.org/10.37074/jalt.2024.7.1.7 [FULL ACCESS]
Walsh, Michael (2023). ‘I’m also slightly conscious of how much I’m listening to something’: Music streaming and the transformation of music listening. Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231219142 [OPEN ACCESS]
| 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... | New: Manager, Interdisciplinary Research Projects (VPSG6)
Department of Health, Melbourne
Talent Register
The Australian Institute of Family Studies has created a temporary register to help quickly fill positions that come up. For details, including how to add yourself to the register, please read on...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Research
University of Tasmania
Application deadline: Tomorrow Friday 2 February. Read on....
Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow in Sociology
University of Sydney
Application deadline: Today 1st February. 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: PhD Scholarship
University of Melbourne
Supervisor: fellow member Ash Barnwell
The proposed PhD project offers an original sociological study about how secrets and practices of secret-keeping around sexual lives have changed over time in Australian society.
For the full details, and to submit your expression of interest, read on...
New: Future-proofing Australia's Care Economy (Healthcare students, migration, work and care)
PhD Scholarship
Fellow member Leah Williams Veazey, ARC DECRA Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at The University of Sydney, is offering a Postgraduate Scholarship for a PhD student to conduct research with healthcare students about migration, work and care.
| | 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 | Aging Out of Out-of-Home Care
Collected Edition and Symposium
Editors: fellow members Joel McGregor and Ben Lohmeyer as well as Wendy Stone
The editors are seeking a diverse range of studies, including international perspectives, about young people who have reached the designated age at which the care of the state or child welfare system will cease. They are interested in empirical research that investigates both transition planning and the implications of being aged out of the system. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are welcome, however, they will prioritise research underpinned by emancipatory epistemological principles, and involve co-design or participatory practices in the design and analysis of data. Studies that expand theoretical understandings on aging out of out-of-home care are encouraged.
Chapter proposals, of a maximum of 250 words, that showcase the work of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates, are due by March 31. Read on...
| Call for Research Participants | Influence of results on publication in literature
A Cardiff University PhD student is seeking participants for a global survey exploring the extent to which the results of a research study influence publication in the peer-reviewed literature.
The study takes about 5-10 minutes and is part of a research project being undertaken by multiple universities. The broad aim of this research is to build a better picture of factors influencing peer-reviewed publication across different academic fields.
The study may be accessed here. Participation is anonymous.
| Future of Work in the Global South and Global North
2-3 May, 2024, The University of Melbourne
Keynote speakers: Professor Niels van Doorn (University of Amsterdam), Associate Professor Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano (De La Salle University) and Dr Katie Wells (Georgetown University)
This two-day symposium aims to bring together researchers from across the social sciences–sociology, geography, work and organisational studies, industrial relations, cultural studies and beyond to discuss the variegated nature of digital labour platforms (Uber, Gojek, Didi, Deliveroo, Menulog, Hungry Panda, Mable, Hire Up etc.) and their operations in the Global South and Global North countries.
Abstract submission deadline: 10 March. Read on...
Taylor Swift Fanposium
Panellists include fellow member Catherine Strong
Sunday 11th February, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm AEDT, Melbourne
The event is free
| Free, online, Graduate Research Program
| Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Program in Indigenous Settler Relations
Applications are now open for the 2024 Graduate Research Program. The Program is available to graduate researchers in any faculty at any university undertaking graduate research related to the emerging field of Indigenous settler relations in Australia and the world.
Find out more here. Apply here. Enquiries: aust-centre@unimelb.edu.au
Applications close: Monday 12 February | The Kohli Prize for Sociology
The Kohli Prize for Sociology honors exceptional achievement in and contributions to the field and profession of sociology. The Kohli Prize is rewarded with 50.000 EUR. It is awarded by an international Selection Committee composed of the Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees and two additional members from other world regions.
| World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
Strumica, North Macedonia from June 19 to 22
Abstract submission deadline: April 15th. Read on...
| Special Issue - Call for Papers
| Blood Ties and Politics: The Influence of Political Polarization upon Family Life
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research Special Issue
Over recent years, the nature of politics in nations around the globe has become increasingly heated and polarized, with much of this change being attributed to a variety of sources, including news outlets, online websites, social media, and various forms of communication technology. However, discussions about politics, along with debates and arguments, often occur with the familial context.
Deadline for initial submissions: April 15. Read on...
| 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.
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