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If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event with fellow member Lutfun Nahar Lata presenting on The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka, you can catch up with the recording here.
Note, tonight's Book Club session has been postponed to April 24th.
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We extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Eileen Clark who, along with co-authors Jennifer Munday and Alison Watts, has received the International Award for Excellence (Volume 16, 2023) from the International Journal of the Inclusive Museum for their article "Collections from the Asylum: Past Lives, Present Tense". Full citation: Munday, Jennifer , Eileen Clark, and Alison Watts. 2023. "Collections from the Asylum: Past Lives, Present Tense." The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 16 (1): 53-73. doi:10.18848/1835-2014/CGP/v16i01/53-73. You can read about Eileen's Award here
We also extend our warm congratulations to Osmond Chiu who has been nominated by fellow member Ben Spies-Butcher as the top Sociology honours student at Macquarie University for 2023. As mentioned previously, among other benefits, each nominated student receives a complimentary 12 month membership to TASA. Full details of the award, including the nomination form, can be accessed here. We strongly encourage you to either nominate your top student or remind/make aware the person responsible at your university (if relevant) about the award.
| | Thematic Group Conveners: 2024/2025
| This week, we are introducing you to the new conveners for the Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Lan Thi Quynh Mai & Traci Sudana:
|  | Dr. Mai Thi Quynh Lan completed her PhD at the School of Sociology, the University of Queensland under a scholarship by the Vietnam Ministry of Education. She is passionate about exploring the gaps between attributes gained from university and actual requirements of the intercultural work environment. She is also keen on enhancing university teaching and learning to improve 'transferable skills' for graduates. She has hands-on experience with education quality evaluation and assessment, and social research interview techniques. She is highly productive in team works, adept at maintaining a positive and friendly atmosphere in the workplace. She enjoys working with other team members. She is multilingual and speaks 2 languages fluently - English, and Vietnamese. She is the author and co-author of book chapters published at Springer International Publishing AG, Cham and Routledge; and author of articles published in international journals. Read on... |  | Traci is trained in sociology and anthropology and has conducted ethnographic research with informal economy workers in Indonesia to consider growing up, work and health in a globalised world. Traci’s doctoral research is longitudinal and considers mobilities, status and precarity, with some attention to humour and gendered health seeking behaviours across different cultures. Traci is a PhD researcher and tutors in sociology and politics at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
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We are also introducing you to the new convener for the Sociology of Media Thematic Group Habib A. Moghimi:
|  | | Dr Habib A. Moghimi teaches at the University of Sydney (USYD) and is a member of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) and the International Sociological Association’s (ISA) RC57 Visual Sociology thematic group. Additionally, he serves as the convenor of The Australian Sociological Association’s (TASA) Sociology of Media thematic group.
He combines critical social theory with creative research methods to gain new insights into how media represents real life. After completing his PhD on the representation of everyday life in Iranian cinema at the University of Sydney, his recent publication defines sociological film based on ideas from public sociology. His manuscripts, currently under publication, focus on censorship in Iranian cinema, the limits of postcolonial understanding of Islamophobia, and the Multimodal Construction of Ukrainian, Afghan, and Syrian Refugees in Neoliberal Multiculturalism of Australia and Canada. He is currently writing a book on the relationship between sociology and documentary filmmaking. Read on...
| | | And last, but not least, we are introducing you to the new convener for the Risk Societies Thematic Group Kate Manlik:
| | Kate Manlik researches and teaches Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. Their research interests include HIV and sexual health; sexual violence; sex education; and lesbian studies. Kate's doctoral research, which will be submitted in mid-2024, seeks to problematise lesbian and queer women’s place in the Australian HIV landscape. She is also working on a collaborative project, examining doctoral students’ well-being and access to support initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | | |  | | We are pleased to announce our April TASA Thursdays presented by fellow member Stephanie Vasil. Stephanie will be presenting on Migration, precarity and family violence: Examining women's experiences in Australia.
Drawing on interviews with 18 victim-survivors with insecure migration status, and 23 professional stakeholders, this presentation examines precarity in relation to migrant women’s lives in Australia, focusing on the ways that their specific circumstances contribute to and are compounded by the experience of family violence (FV).
In doing so, it considers how precarity functions as a structural condition that has implications in terms of various forms or patterns of inequality that can heighten women’s vulnerability to FV and undermine their efforts to ensure their safety and survival.
The presentation draws from a qualitative study that sought to contribute to a growing body of feminist scholarship that considers how structural inequalities related to the status of non-citizenship impact the dynamics of FV and help-seeking options for migrant women in Western multicultural societies.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 18th April 2024
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEST)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
|  | TASA's March Book Club session has been postponed and will be now held on Wednesday 25th April at 7pm (AEST).
We invite you to join us as we explore this month's book: Open Minds: Academic freedom and freedom of speech in Australia by Carolyn Evans and Adrienne Stone, 2021, La Trobe University Press (Available on Kindle)
Event Details
Date: Wednesday 25th April 2024
Time: 7pm AEDT
Format: Zoom (login details will be provided upon registration)
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.
Note, this event is for TASA members only so you will need to login to TASAweb to register.
| Douglas Ezzy, Anna Halafoff, Greg Barton, Rebecca Banham (2024) Religious Diversity in Australia: Living Well with Difference, London. |  | | This book documents the structure of religious diversity in Australia and examines this diversity in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media and interfaith communities.
Focusing on Melbourne and Tasmania, it articulates the benefits and opportunities of diversity, alongside the challenges that confront religious and ethnic minorities, including discrimination and structural inequalities generated by Christian and other
forms of privilege. It articulates constructive strategies that are deployed, including encouraging forms of belonging, structured ways of negotiating disagreement and respectful engagement with difference.
While scholars across the West are increasingly attuned to the problems and promises of growing religious diversity in a global age, in-depth empirical research on the consequences of that diversity in Australia is lacking. This book provides a rich, well-researched, and timely intervention. Read on...
Includes chapters by fellow members Enqi Weng & Geraldine Smith and the late Gary Bouma.
| | | Li, Yao-Tai, Man-Lin Chen and Hsuan-Wei Lee. 2024. “Science Communication during the Pandemic: Examining Health Professionals’ COVID-19 Related Tweets.” Social Science & Medicine 347: 116748.
Hanckel B, Morris A and Yasukawa K (2024) On (not) being literate enough: The literacy experiences and literacy programme needs of people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness. Australian Journal of Social Issues https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajs4.324
Taylor, J., & Ridgway, A. When Descriptor is Diagnosis: An Autoethnographic Response to the Medical Treatment of Women with Vulvodynia. Australian Feminist Studies. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2024.2333051 [FULL ACCESS]
Anna Halafoff, Rosie Clare Shorter, Enqi Weng, Yin Paradies, William Abur & Monika Winarnita (2024) Decolonising Studies of Religion in So-Called Australia: Truth-Telling, Collective Reflections and Future Trajectories, Journal of Intercultural Studies, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2024.2317152 [FULL ACCESS]
| The nomination deadline for the below 2024 TASA Awards is July 17th:
Note, applications for TASA2024 bursaries will open on Monday July 22nd and close on Monday August 19th.
| New: Lecturer, Sociology (ongoing, Level B)
University of Wollongong
Work with fellow member Jordan McKenzie
New: Teacher for a third year capstone research project/methods unit
Curtin University
It is a 3 hour lecture/workshop style, and usually has around 15-20 students (internal and online). The content is already developed, but can be adapted.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of New South Wales
As the Research Fellow, working with fellow member Emma Kirby, you will primarily work with academic and partner investigators on a project funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Project Grant “When caring ends”
Application deadline: March 31st. Read on...
Assistant or Associate Professor
Hong Kong Shue Yan University, sociology department
Starting in September
Applications will remain open until the position is filled. Read on...
Visiting Professor
Seoul National University
Commencement of position: January – February 2025
| 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 - Music making in Australia
Applications are invited for enrolment in a scholarship-supported doctoral study associated with an Australian Research Council Discovery project that explores digital music making in regional Australia. The PhD project topic is deliberately open to allow candidates to develop their own specific ideas and interests drawing on their existing skills and experience, subject to negotiation with supervisors. However, in order to align with the overall project, topics that focus on areas such as the following are particularly welcome:
• Music making in regional Australia
• The intersections of grassroots music making and government policy and infrastructure in urban or regional settings
• Musicians’ utilisation of ‘maker spaces’
• Social inequalities in digital music making.
The successful applicant will supervised by three of the Chief Investigators on the ARC project (all TASA members), Associate Professor Catherine Strong (RMIT), Professor Andy Bennett (Griffith) and Dr Ben Green (Griffith).
Please contact Catherine Strong for more information (catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au)
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...
| | 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 | National Library Fellowships
| New: National Library of Australia Fellowships
The National Library of Australia Fellowships program offers researchers an opportunity to undertake a 12-week residency at the Library. Applicants may work in any field or discipline where the Library's collections have appropriate depth and breadth to support the desired outcomes.
| New: Conservative Public History
With speaker fellow member Neville Buch presenting on Buckley in Australia: Considering Local Social Discourses among the Australian States (1938-1987)
June 20, 10am - 6pm
| New: Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Disadvantage in Australia
Online Short Course, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
29 April 2024 to 11 June 2024 (6 modules across 7 weeks)
The Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW Sydney has launched its first short course, “Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Disadvantage in Australia”. This innovative program explores the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality from a unique Australian policy perspective. Developed with input from the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and individuals with firsthand experience with poverty and inequality, this course will deliver invaluable insights and evidence-based strategies to support people facing social and economic disadvantage in Australia. Join a community of lived experience experts, advocates, researchers, and fellow change-makers committed to finding actionable solutions for tangible change.
To view details of the course, click on the following video link.
| Call for Submissions - Journals
| New: Special Themed Collection: Gender and Work Emerging Issues
Economic and Labour Relations Review
The purpose of this call for papers is to assemble a stock take, assessing progress towards gender equality in work, paid and unpaid, formal and informal.
Special issue focussed on Culturally Responsive Qualitative Health Research
Qualitative Health Research
Anticipated publication of Special Issue: March 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 1. Read on....
Criminology in Post-Violence Transitions: Exploring the Intersections between Human Rights, Grassroots Activism, Transitional Justice, Memory, and Criminology
International Journal for Crime, Justice, and Social Democracy
Deadline for initial submissions: April 1st. Read on...
Blood Ties and Politics: The Influence of Political Polarization upon Family Life
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research Special Issue
Deadline for initial submissions: April 15. Read on...
| Aging Out of Out-of-Home Care
Collected Edition and Symposium
Editors: fellow members Joel McGregor and Ben Lohmeyer as well as Wendy Stone
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...
| New: Epidemics and transmissible disease. Scourges throughout History.
The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies (TMA for HSES) and the Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development (TWC for SRD)
December 3, 4, 5 / 2024 (Beja - Tunisia).
Second World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
June 19-22, 2024 Strumica, North Macedonia (Hotel Sirius)
Abstract submission deadline: April 15th. Read on...
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
Strumica, North Macedonia from June 19 to 22
Abstract submission deadline: April 15th. Read on...
| WA Migration and Mobilities Update conference
Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley campus, Perth WA.
Wednesday 25 September
Full program and registration details to follow.
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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