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We are thrilled to see some abstracts being submitted for TASA 2024. In case you are not aware, there is a call for general abstracts and a call for panels. The deadlines are different. The panel abstract deadline has been extended to May 13th. The general abstract deadline is June 3rd. For details, read on...
|  | | Fellow member Stephanie Vasil will be presenting on Migration, precarity and family violence: Examining women's experiences in Australia next Thursday April 18th.
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.
| Publishing in academic journals: The editor’s view
The MEM thematic group are hosting an online event on “Publishing in academic journals: The editor’s view”. This event will be held Wednesday 24th April, 12pm AEST / 11:30am ACST / 10am AWST. The event can be accessed at this Zoom link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88507201289.
This event will be chaired by TASA MEM co-convener Dr Leah Williams Veazey (The University of Sydney). She will be joined by Dr Melissa Phillips (Western Sydney University) and Dr Paula Muraca (Deakin University), who are the co-managing editors of the Journal of Intercultural Studies. Melissa and Paula will share their editor's perspective on publishing in academic journals.
| 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
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 | Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition
| | New: Future Science Talks
Comedy Edition is debuting in Melbourne featuring fellow member Dan Woodman on Generational Divides
114 Grattan Street, Parkville, VIC 3052
| | | Sociology out West - Seminar
| 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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