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TAFE NSW and their teachers (who deliver qualifications related to community services, community development etc) in the VET sector are very interested in a professional development session on contemporary sociological practice. The nationally recognised unit of competency the teachers deliver related to sociology is available here. The teachers need to update their professional currency related to the content of this unit and were also interested in areas such as: “how different perspectives have influenced changes to DFV laws”, or why "woke" has become a term of dismissal (like political correctness before it), or maybe just taking us through a recent sociological model/theory or two. They are looking for a sociologist that can run a 2 hour online session in May or early June (not Fridays). If you are interested, could you please contact Sally in TASA Admin.
|  | | 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.
| Future of Work and Care
Sociology of Work, Labour and Economy Thematic Group
Hybrid Symposium, Melbourne, 3rd May, 2024
The intersections and regimes of work and care have been significantly disrupted by COVID-19. With recent technological development and artificial intelligence, the world of work and personal life are more complex to manage and blend, and individuals face many challenges. As we recover and imagine how to rebuild our economies, industries and communities, it seems timely to consider the practices, tensions and ways forward in the future of work and care.
This symposium aims to explore research and policy debate around the conceptual and lived experience of work and care in Australia. It is energised by questions: Who will we be in years to come? What approaches to ‘care’ should we consider? How can we create an equitable future of work and care?
Abstract submission deadline: April 10. Read on
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The American Journal of Sociology ran a symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their special issue "Changing Women in a Changing Society" from 1973. Fellow member Raewyn Connell's contribution is published as Raewyn Connell, "Six revolutions and perhaps a funeral", in Symposium: Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50, American Journal of Sociology, 2023, vol. 129 no. 3, 925-931. It's available online without charge to the first fifty people.
| In September 2023, fellow member Raewyn Connell gave the opening talk at an online seminar hosted by the Postgraduate Committee of the European Sociological Association's Executive Committee. For the proceedings of the seminar, click here.
Contributions to the seminar have now been published in a special issue of the online, open-access magazine The European Sociologist. Raewyn's contribution, "Casualisation and its Context", can be found here.
| On 13 March, Raewyn Connell gave the inaugural Distinguished Lecture (online) for International Sociological Association Research Committee 16 (sociological theory), and the following day three colleagues spoke in response, and others commented, at a "Theory Café". Subsequently both sessions have been put on YouTube.
Raewyn's talk is available is here and the discussion the next day is here.
| 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.
| Lecturer, Sociology (ongoing, Level B)
University of Wollongong
Work with fellow member Jordan McKenzie
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.
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 | Sociology out West - Seminar
| New: WA sociologists sharing research and practice
May 2nd, Curtin University, 5:30pm - 7:15pm, AWST
Join fellow sociologists for some stimulating sociological discussion, with three guest speakers: Sophie Leipoldt, Jake Chaloner and Grace Cayley. For their first event of the year, they are showcasing the work of some of junior colleagues who have recently completed (or are soon to complete) their studies.
For full details, access the flyer here | National Library Fellowships
| 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.
| 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
| 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
| 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....
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...
| 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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