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TASA bestows several prestigious awards, including the Award for Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology. This Award recognises excellence in scholarship in the field of Sociology. It is made to a TASA member who has demonstrated outstanding, significant and sustained service to Australian sociology over many years. While not necessarily a lifetime achievement award, candidates for the Distinguished Service Award would usually be nearing the end of their careers. Nominations close on May 31. Read on...

Members' Publications

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

Elena Wilson, Amanda Kenny and Virginia Dickson-Swift (2017) Rural health services and the task of community participation at the local community level: a case study. Australian Health Review

Garth Stahl (2017)  Aspiration paradoxes: working-class student conceptions of power in ‘engines of social mobility. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Jo Lindsay & Deborah Dempsey (2017) First names and social distinction: Middle-class naming practices in Australia. Journal of Sociology

John Scott,  Jodie Grigg, Monica Barratt, Simon Lenton (2017) Social capital and cannabis supply. Journal of Sociology

Vivienne Waller (2017) Engaging students and their publics through making sociological films. Journal of Sociology

Xiaoying Qi. (2017) ‘Social Movements in China: Augmenting Mainstream Theory with Guanxi’. Sociology 51(1): 111-126.

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

John van Kooy: Middle Eastern migrants aren’t ‘piling on to the dole queue’, The Conversation

Meredith Nash: ‘Fat, bland, boring incubators’: ordinary pregnant women don’t feel like Beyoncé, The Conversation

Podcasts

Meredith Nash: Digital Discussion Series: Homeward Bound Expedition interview with Meredith Nash, United Nations Academic Impact

Invitation to contribute to a book proposal on private/public healthcare

Working Title: Navigating Healthcare: Experiences of Patients, Doctors and Policy Makers                                                                                                             Editors: Fran Collyer and Karen Willis                                                                                       This edited collection concerns the global growth of private sector medicine in both developed and lesser developed countries, and the impact of this on patients, health workers, managers and policy-makers. Drawing upon experts from several countries with extensive experience in researching the field either nationally or internationally, the collection offers a unique perspective on healthcare systems: a view from those trying to access healthcare services, working inside systems, or responsible for managing and organising services or a healthcare system. Collectively, the chapters contribute an international perspective on the navigation of healthcare systems, and to the growing salience of ‘choice’ between public and private medicine in a variety of different systems and contexts.                                                                                                                                                     Abstract submission deadline: February 15. Read on...

Survey: call for participants

TASA member Anna Denejkina is currently conducting research (Approval number: UTS HREC REF NO. ETH16-0356) into transmission of combat-related trauma from parent to child, specifically looking at how the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-1989) impacted on the first post-Soviet generation. Anna's research would be of interest to anyone with a Russian, Ukrainian, or Eastern European background. The survey is specifically focused on people whose parent(s) or close relative(s) served in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war. The survey is available in Russian and English. Please feel free to contact Anna with any questions. 

Add the TASA twitter feed this semester to your subject moodle shelves!

I would like encourage members to add TASA's Twitter feed to their Moodle shelf (for those who teach at a University which uses Moodle). The instructions are available here.

Luke Gahan, TASA Secretary

Thematic Groups

Sociology of Animals: call for members

TASA's thematic groups are designed to facilitate communication and collaboration between TASA members working/studying in similar areas. Every so often, a new one is formed. Presently, there is a 'Call for interest to form a Sociology and Animals Thematic Group'. If you are interested in this area, please direct your enquiries to Zoei or Nicholas by February 20th.  Instructions to select this thematic group via your My Accounts page can be accessed here.  If there are 15 members interested in this new proposed group, Zoei and Nicholas will submit a request for the first 2017 Executive Meeting.

International Center for the Sociology of Religion

The recently founded “International Center for the Sociology of Religion” International Association is a non-profit group set up to examine in depth and support knowledge of religions, with a view to organizing scholarly and social activities aimed at gaining scientific and comparative knowledge of religions. The Association also aims at promoting the training of young scholars in the field of the sociology of religion. Read on...

Competition for Junior Sociologists

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has announced the organization of the Seventh Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists. The winners will be invited to participate in the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology which will take place in Toronto, Canada in July 2018. Junior Scholars mean people who obtained their first Master's degree (or an equivalent graduate diploma) in sociology or in a related discipline, less than 10 years prior to March 31, 2017.                                                                                                      Submission deadline: March 31. Read on...

Project

Bitcoin and the unbanked; an ethnographic study of financial inclusion through cryptocurrencies

Alexia Maddox, Greg Adamson, and Supriya Singh are conducting a social study of the use of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Read on...

Research Participant Opportunity

If you are aged 60 years and over the Sexual Health & Ageing, Perspectives and Education (SHAPE) Project, presents a unique opportunity for you to participate in research to improve the wellbeing of older people.  Read on...

Events

Symposiums

Digital Food Cultures symposium                                                                                                  Friday 20 October, University of Canberra                                                                                                   This symposium is directed at the social, cultural, political and ethical dimensions of representations and practices related to using digital technologies for food production, consumption, preparation, eating out, promoting healthy diets or weight loss, marketing, ethical consumption, food activism and environmental and sustainability politics.             Abstract submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

Workshops

Childhood, Education and Welfare: Research and policy insights workshop  Melbourne Institute and Life Course Centre                                                                         Wednesday 15 February, Melbourne                                                                                                       This workshop is free, however registration is essential.  Read on...

Global Production Networks in the Spotlight: Chains or Opportunities for Workers?                                                                                                                       GPN-Labour Inter-disciplinary Workshop                                                                                             Tuesday February 14, Macquarie University                                                                                                 This workshop is free, however registration is essential.   Read on...

Conferences

8th Urban Space and Social Life:  Theory and Practice                                          Transforming Urbanity: People and Cities on the Move                                         9 - 12 June, Malyasia                                                                                                       Call for Papers, Photos for Exhibition, and Photo Essays                                        Submission deadline: March 31. Read on...

Critical Approaches to Risk and Security: East, South, North and West             10th-12th April 2017, Singapore                                                                                                     This conference will provide a great opportunity for people to develop networks in South East Asia.  The program will include keynote presentations by: Professor Murry Lee from Sydney University, Professor Maggie Lee from The University of Hong Kong and Professor Adam Burgess from the University of Kent as well as plenary sessions, presentations and seminars around this interdisciplinary theme.                                 Submission deadline: EXTENDED TO TODAY FEBRUARY 9. Read on...

Education Transforms 2017: Raising aspirations for educational attainment.   Hobart – Tasmania, Australia 11-15 July.   This international meeting brings together scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners to reflect on and share insights about our collective mission to raise aspirations and enhance opportunities for educational attainment.                                                                                                                                                             Abstract submission deadline: 28 February. Read on...

Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South: An International Conference”                                                                                                                                                           Co-hosted by the Crime and Justice Research Centre (QUT) and the Asian Criminological Society                                                                                                                                                                           10-13th July 2017, Shangri-La Hotel, Cairns, Australia                                                             Abstract submission deadline: 31 March. Read on...

Social Boundaries of Work. Methodological and Practical Problems of Research on Work and Employment in Modern Societies                                   27-28 of October, Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Calling for panel proposals for the ‘IRiS International Conference 2017: Global Perspectives on Research Co-production with Communities:  Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies’. The Institute for Research into Super Diversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham and will be hosting its 4th annual conference in partnership with The Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne at the University of Birmingham on 14th and 15th September 2017. Go to the conference website for more details.

15th Annual meeting of the International Society for Quality-of-Life studies
Quality of life: towards a better society
28-30th of September 2017
Innsbruck, Austria                                                                                                                             Submission deadline: February 14, 2017. Read on...

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)                                                                                 July 6- 8, 2017 Copenhagen                                                                                                                                 Sub-theme 69: Organization Studies and Industrial Relations: Overlapping Concerns and New Possibilities The stream seeks to promote the dialogue between labour relations and wider scholarship in organisation studies. They are looking for a broad range of contributions and would like to have some more submissions with a sociological bent. Read on...

Making alcohol and other drug realities                                                     Contemporary Drug Problems                                                                                                                      23-25 August, 2017. Helsinki, Finland                                                                                              Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2017. Read on...

XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                 Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities                            Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Sport, Feminism, and the Global South                                                                          Sociology of Sport Journal                                                                                           Guest editors: Kim Toffoletti and Catherine Palmer                                                    Submission deadline: March 1, 2017. Read on...

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