The Australian Sociological Association: Members' Newsletter
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Importantly, if you have submitted to TASA 2019 and plan on presenting, you will need to register by TOMORROW Friday September 6 via the green button below:
Note, it is necessary to close off the presenter registration early because compiling the program takes a great deal of time, involving many moving parts including a variety of delegate requests & a lot of different members with various TASA roles.
Congratulations
New funding: Sociologists join interdisciplinary NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Women’s Health in Reproductive Life
Renata Kokanović (as Associate Investigator) and Kate Johnston-Ataata (as Research Fellow) from RMIT University are a part of team led by Helena Teede from the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University that has been awarded NHMRC funding for a new Centre for Research Excellence on Women’s Health in Reproductive Life (WHIRL). A five-year, $2.499 million research program, CRE-WHIRL aims to improve understanding of and knowledge translation in relation to key problems in women’s reproductive health. As part of this CRE, Renata and Kate will lead a qualitative study on experiences of infertility and PCOS to underpin the development of Healthtalk Australia digital resources to support and inform women when making decisions about their reproductive health.
A warm congratulations is also extended to fellow member Alexandra Ridgway who submitted her PhD last week for review.
Employment Opportunities
New: Research Fellow (Level B) in Migration, Diversity and Inclusion Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre, Monash University, Clayton campus Applications close Octonber 2. Read on...
New: Visiting Professor in Australian Studies 2020-21 or 2021-22 (two terms) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo Application deadline: 5pm on 18 October . Read on...
The Institute for Culture and Society and the Young and Resilient Strategic Research Initiative have identified key research areas where Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellows could join the Institute and work with them. Applications close 8:30pm (AEST), 22 September. Read on...
Research Fellow – Digital Energy Futures Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow – Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
Project Officer – Digital Energy Futures Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
PhD Scholarship Opportunities
New: Empowerment Approaches for People Seeking Asylum and Refugees This scholarship is offered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute in partnership with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
University of Melbourne
Application Deadline: Friday 27 September. Read on...
Empowerment Approaches for People Seeking Asylum and Refugees This scholarship is offered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute in partnership with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
University of Melbourne
Application Deadline: Friday 27 September. Read on...
2 x PhD Scholarships – Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
Indigenous Land & Justice Research Hub PhD scholarship University of Technology, Sydney Application deadline: September 30. Read on...
Spotlight
Sociologist looking for work
Gianluigi Rotondo
Gianluigi Rotondo was awarded his PhD at Monash University, Australia. His work focuses on humanitarian organisations, professional intercultural mediators and communication strategies in the context of migrant and refugee settlement. Gianluigi's areas of expertise are Communication, Immigration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, Migration, Ethnicity & Multiculturalism, Qualitative research, Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations
Gianluigi is interested in gaining employment in Tutorials/Seminars, Lectures, Online Teaching, Marking, Research Assistance, Grant writing, & Consultancy. Gianluigi has work experience in Lectures, Teaching,Tutorials/Seminars, Marking, Research (Quantitative & Qualitative)
You can contact Gianluigi via email: gianluigi.rot@gmail.com
Note: the Looking for Work registry is there to help sociologists looking for work but it is also there to assist those looking to employ a sociologist. The registry of members can be accessed on TASAweb here. If you would like to add yourself to the registry, please click here. If you are currently listed on the registry and no longer need to be, please remove yourself or contact TASA Admin to be removed.
TASA Executive member Alphia Possamai-Inesedy is our Vice-President and, this year, is also our conference convener. Alphia is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Western Sydney University. She is the current Chair of Academic Senate and the Director of Sydney City Campus. She was also the recent editor in chief of the Journal of Sociology (2013- end of 2016) as well as the co-creator of the Risk Societies Thematic Group Alphia is currently involved in ongoing research that focuses on risk society, religion, health, and digital methodologies.
If you haven't met Alphia, you can meet her at TASA 2019 in November, Sydney. In advance of the conference, you can also listen, and watch, Alphia talking about Sociology as well as the Sociologists at Western Sydney University.
Meet Sociology of Indigenous Issues Co Conveners Alexander Page & Naama Blatman-Thomas both at Sydney University & Janine Gertz, James Cook University
The key aim of the Sociology of Indigenous issues thematic group is to build and support the engagement of Australian sociology and sociologists with Indigenous social issues.
Alexander Page
In 2014 Alex began his PhD in Sociology at the University of Sydney, titled Indigenous Agency, Service Delivery, and the Australian Settler Colonial State in the ‘Advancement’ Era, exploring Aboriginal community organisations and their relationships with government in Western Sydney. Alex was the 2015 PhD Representative for the School of Social and Political Sciences. Since 2016, Alex has co-coordinated the Teaching Development Program for new tutors in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Naama Blatman-Thomas
Naama joined the University of Sydney this year as a lecturer in urban geography. Previously, Naama was a visiting academic and adjunct lecturer at James Cook University where she undertook research and teaching at the school of social sciences. Naama holds a PhD in politics and government from Ben-Gurion University in Israel and an MA in sociology and anthropology from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Prior to her academic work, Naama worked for many years in human rights organisations in Israel/Palestine.
Janine Gertz
Janine’s cultural heritage is drawn from her North Queensland connections to both the Gugu Badhun in the Upper Burdekin region and the Ngadjon-ji on the Atherton Tablelands. Janine’s research interests are grounded in her community development and nation-building work with the Gugu Badhun Aboriginal Nation and through her representation of Gugu Badhun issues.
Members' Publications
Will Johncock (2019) Naturally Late: Synchronization in Socially Constructed Times. Roman & Littlefield.
Books
Is time a natural reality that social symbols such as clocks and calendars merely contingently represent? Lateness protocols seemingly exhibit such contingency, for not all cultures regulate synchronization identically. Just as social/cultural time structures are interpreted to diverge from time’s natural rhythm, body modifications are often presented as social productions that divert human bodies from their naturally originated, corporeal temporality. A similar separation informs climate change discourses, supposing a natural rhythm that industrialized culture has invaded, the effects of which humans might be too late to arrest.
Keith Noble, Tania Dennis & Sarah Larkins (2019) Agriculture and Resilience in Australia’s North
A Lived Experience. Springer Nature.
This book examines the mechanisms and strategies farmers in North Australia adopt to manage the setbacks and challenges they face. This social research is based on farmers’ experiences, but also draws on the author’s own experience after his tropical fruit farm was destroyed by two Category 5 cyclones in five years.
Through historical analysis, the book compares historic and contemporary aspirations for northern development, and discusses the influence of the built environment on individuals as well as access to health and other social services.
Exploring the implications of individual resilience strategies for policy development within the broader context of northern development and evolving environmental governance, the book also highlights the fact that this is occurring in a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene.
The book will provide a unique perspective and understanding to government, individuals and industries interested in northern Australia and its relationship to the world
Book Chapters
Pruitt, Lesley J. “Youth, Peace, and Security: Global Trends and a Colombian Case Study.” 2019. In Byrne, Sean; Matyok, Thomas; Scott, Imani, and Senehi, Jessica. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Peace and Conflict Studies. New York: Routledge, pp. 326-336. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Companion-to-Peace-and-Conflict-Studies-1st-Edition/Byrne-Matyok-Scott-Senehi/p/book/9781138742772
Book Reviews
Roberts, S. (2019). Book Review: Frank Karioris, An Education in Sexuality and Sociality: Heteronormativity on Campus. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783319873508
Journal Articles
Holton, R., & Boyd, R. (2019). ‘Where are the people? What are they doing? Why are they doing it?’(Mindell) Situating artificial intelligence within a socio-technical framework. Journal of Sociology.
Butler, R. (2019). "Young people's rural multicultures: researching social relationships among youth in rural contexts." Journal of Youth Studies: 1-17. Free copies available: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BZS6KRQYZQJDSZXJSADX/full?target=10.1080/13676261.2019.1657564
Informed News & Analysis
Jessica Richards, Daniela Spanjaard & Ryan Storr (August 30, 2019) Graduates beware, don’t fall for that unpaid job advert. The Conversation.
Blogs
Deborah Lupton (September 1, 2019) Excerpt from Introduction of Data Selves. The Sociological Life.
Radio Interviews
Michael Walsh (September 4, 2019) The role of music in retail contexts. ABC Drive, Adelaide (from the 20 minute mark).
Lesley Pruitt (September 3, 2019) The first all-women peacekeeping unit. BBC News World Service Witness History Program (Lesley is on from the 2:53 mark).
Health Sociology Review
2021 Special Issue - Call for Expressions of Interest
Health Sociology Review (HSR) is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness and medicine. We encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues within their field of expertise. Note, those who have previously submitted an expression of interest are welcome to submit again for this call. W Proposal submission deadline: October 4. Read on...
2020 Special Issue - call for papers
Sex, Health & Technology Special Issue The Role of Bio-medical, Bio-mechanical, and Bio-digital Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Intimacy. Full papers due: January 17th 2020. Read on...
Members on the Move
Changing jobs, department or location? Let us know and we will list the details here.
Members' Keynote Invitations
Have you been invited to give a keynote? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can list the details in the weekly newsletter here.
Members' Promotions
Have you been promoted recently? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can share the details in the weekly newsletter here.
Thematic Groups
TASA Health Day
New: Data, Technology and Sociology in the Age of Digital Health Keynote speaker: Professor Alan Peterson, Monash University Keynote workshop: Professor Deborah Lupton, UNSW Sydney November 29, University of Western Sydney Registration deadline: November 22. Read on...
NextGen Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Symposium
A one-day research symposium. Thursday, 3 October, 8.30am-4.30pm Immigration Museum, Melbourne. NextGen MEM offers postgraduate students and early career researchers the opportunity to engage with contemporary migration and inclusion challenges as they set out to become the next generation of migration ethnicity and multiculturalism scholars, policy influencers, and practitioners. For full event details, please read on...
Social Sciences Week (SSW)
Q & A
Reimagining Migration: what does the future hold for Australia? Monday 9 September, 6-7pm, Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne A moderated Q&A style public event and will be live recorded for ABC Radio National's Big Ideas, featuring Prof Alex Piquero(University of Texas at Dallas/Monash University) A/Prof Ly Tran (Deakin University) A/Prof Joanna Howes (Adelaide University) and A/Prof Leanne Weber (Monash University). This is a free event but spaces are limited - to RSVP: bit.ly/2yXceBy
Panel Discussions
New: Can we reimagine democracy for a just future? Current policies have become disconnected from the concerns of everyday people. In our present political climate, economic insecurity and worsening inequality have made decent jobs, affordable housing and a strong public service precarious. Indifference towards truth, in favour of vested interests in politics, is breeding contempt. As a result, policy failure is driving an historic loss of public trust in democracy. Monday September 9, Carlton Bookings are free but required, read on...
International student mental health: developing evidence-based responses Tuesday 10 September, 12-1:30pm Menzies Building, 20 Chancellors Walk, Monash University Clayton campus Join Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett, industry experts, university practitioners and international students for a #SSW2019 panel discussion on a vital issue that is often overlooked: the mental health of international students in Australia. In this special event, Helen will present the latest research on this vital topic, before a panel discussion on developing effective, evidence-based responses. This is a free event but seating is limited so RSVP is essential: bit.ly/2ZbFT4n
Online Seminar
Understanding the family life of transmissible infections: a (live stream) session of the Australian Social Policy Conference, where emerging findings will be presented from the ARC-funded my health, our family study, which has documented the stories of families affected by HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C in Australia. September 10, 3:45 - 5:15pm The event is free, but registration is required.
Genders & Sexualities Thematic Group SSW events
Critical Femininities Keynote Public Lecture - Dr Amy Shields Dobson (Curtain University) 6:00pm-7:00pm, September 12th, University of Melbourne, Parkville
Several feminist scholars have recently suggested the importance of playfulness, creative, imaginative, and artistic interventions and activism in response to the neoliberal political and academic pressures of the current moment. This talk explores some critical examples of playfully-seriously imagining lives otherwise, and some emergent tensions around femininities and rage. Registration free but essential. Read on...
Rethinking Critical Femininities: Feeling, Feminist Practice and Beyond 8:00am - 6pm, Friday September 13th, University of Melbourne, Parkville This one day symposium aims to push beyond the diagnosis of femininities in terms of neoliberal individuality, to attend critically to assemblages of transformations in everyday practices, embodiments, and affects of femininities. What femininities arise in relation to contemporary feminist contexts, and what are the shifting relationships between femininities and feminist practice today? Speakers Include: Amy Dobson, Akane Kanai, Julia Coffey, Carman Fung, Katherine Giunta, Elianne Renaud, Megan Sharp, Shoshana Rosenberg, Kim Toffoletti, Lucy Baker, Amanda Howell, Maura Edmond, Marissa Willcox, Hannah McCann, Kythera Watson-Bonnice, Megan Rose, Gemma Killen, Madison Magladry and Caitlin McGrane. Registration is free but essential. Read on...
Report Launch
Women in Trades report launch “A Trade of One’s Own” Regional NSW stakeholder findings – barriers and proposed solutions for women in the manual trades 2019 This Report details consolidated findings across three comprehensive industry stakeholder consultations held in Albury, Bathurst and Wagga Wagga during 2018. These consultations illuminated the persistent barriers to women’s recruitment and retention as well as revealed insights into how women can pursue successful, meaningful careers. September 10, 11:00am, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst. Read on...
TASA Public Lecture
AI is not what you think Speaker: Anthony Elliott In this provocative lecture, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about the AI Revolution is either illconsidered or plain wrong. The reason? AI is not so much about the future, but is rather a revolution already well underway – albeit one which is unfolding in complex and uneven ways across the globe. From industrial robots to chatbots, and from driverless cars to military drones – AI, Elliott argues, is transforming all aspects of our lives, from the most intimate aspects of personal relationships to the changing nature of work, employment and unemployment. September 11, 6:00pm, Adelaide. Read on... Event Flyer
TASA Public Forum
Will you get off that thing!! Screen-time, learning and cyber-safety It’s the dilemma facing every parent, and is being called a crisis by some. How much screen-time is too much? What impact is it having on learning and development? How accurate and balanced is the information our kids are receiving? And how safe are the platforms they use? But is there another side to the story? Can those evil screens be harnessed for educational purposes? And aren’t they preparing our digital native kids for the real world? September 12, 5:30pm, Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay Campus, Hobart. Read on...
Public Trust in Social Media
Public Trust in Social Media Seminiar. Social media are now firmly embedded in the daily lives of many people, as channels for connection, as sources of news and information, and as archives of personal memories. At the same time, public trust in social media companies has plummeted in the wake of data breaches and scandals about how our personal data is being used to profile us. How do we reconcile our reliance on social media with our distrust? How might the governance of social media platforms change in the future? Can social media play a role in a better future for our world? This event will explore these questions and more. Come and join us for an open dialogue led by a panel of world-leading researchers studying the impacts of social media. September 10 5:30 - 7:00pm, Monash Conference Centre, Melbourne. For the full details, and to register, read on...
Practicing action research – Reflecting on generating a new ‘full cycle’ social science
Presenter: Fellow member Yoland Wadsworth Presenting highlights from four decades of the social science career of Yoland, author of Australia’s best-selling research and evaluation books Do It Yourself Social Research and Everyday Evaluation on the Run – with customary engaging style (and cartoons!). Yoland will show how these many years of practice-based co-inquiry culminated in a cutting-edge transdisciplinary theory for Building in Research and Evaluation: Human Inquiry for Living Systems. September 12, 1:15pm, Melbourne. Read on...
My School, Your School, Our Schools: A Sociology of Education Summit
Social Sciences Week is an opportunity for social scientists to engage non-academic audiences with cutting edge social science research, to showcase the diversity and relevance of social science. It will include interactive community and school-based events, bringing the social sciences to life, particularly for the next generation of university students, social scientists and citizens. For the full list of SSW events, please see the SSW website.
Other Events, News & Opportunities
Symposiums
New: Capabilities and Capitals: Implications for Students’ Persistence and Success at University November 21 - 22, University of Wollongong This 2 day symposium will bring together key thinkers and scholars who have applied the capability theory (Sen 1992, 1993) and capital theory (Bourdieu, 1986, 1993) across disciplines to consider how this framing may assist us to reconceptualize student persistence. Fellow member Dina Bowman is one of the speakers. Registration is free but essential. Read on...
Conversations
New: Shifting paradigms: Conversations on developing a transformative agenda for future mental health research, policy and practice To mark World Mental Health Day 2019, Renata Kokanović, RMIT University, is hosting three distinguished speakers to engage with some of the most pressing questions surrounding the conduct of mental health research: Vrinda Edan, Acting CEO of the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC); Professor Katherine Boydell, Head of the AKT (Arts-based Knowledge Translation) Lab at the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales; and Professor Isabela Granic, Chair of the Developmental Psychopathology Department and Director of the Games for Emotional and Mental Health (GEMH) Lab, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands.
Join in on an afternoon of stimulating conversation on approaches to meaningful engagement with experts by experience to transform the agenda for mental health research, policy and practice. 10th October, 4 – 5.30 pm, RMIT University (City Campus), Building 8, Level 4, Room 13, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne This event is free but registration is essential. For the full details and to register, read on...
HDR Workshop
Researching New Religions: Qualitative Methods in a Controversial Field September 19, 1pm - 4pm Western Sydney University, Liverpool campus Guest instructor, Susan J. Palmer RSVPs essential due to limited spaces to Jennifer Cheng by Friday, 13 September. Read on...
Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities: PhD Short Course
Hosted by the Community Economies Strategic Initiative, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University 15-17, 20-22 January 2020, Parramatta City Campus, Western Sydney University, Sydney Registration deadline: September 27. Read on...
Study Group
Tensions at the front line of risk work: implications for policy and practice A BSA Risk and Society Study Group Event 9 – 10 December 2019
BSA London Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf , London. Submission deadline: September 20. Read on...
Public Lectures
2019 John Western Public Lecture Data analytics in the public sector: the tortoise or the hare? Professor Rhema Vaithianathan Tuesday September 10 (as part of Social Sciences Week), Brisbane RSVP: TODAY Thursday 5 September – as places are limited, please register to secure your spot. Read on...
10th Annual South Australian Women's Studies and Gender Studies Public Lecture: The Financial Future of Older Women in Australia: Beyond Poverty, Pity and Parity. Professor Kathleen Riach (Monash University) will move beyond the well-known statistical accounts of gender and ageing to explore the complex cultural, structural and political reasons why women continue to become unequal and forgotten members of our society as they grow older. Thursday 19 September, 5.30 - 7.00pm, Flinders at Victoria Square, Adelaide This is a free event but there are limited places. For full details and to register, read on...
Minors in Minority Religions: The Delicate Balance between Religious Freedom and the Well-being of the Child Western Sydney University, Liverpool City Campus Tuesday, September 17, 13:00-15:00 Speaker: Dr Susan J. Palmer (School of Religious Studies, McGill University) RSVP: By Friday, September 13 to Alan Nixon. Read on...
Seminars
Crisis, Treatment, and the Role of the Beauty Salon A public seminar by fellow member Hannah McCann Deakin University’s next ‘First Fridays’ Gender and Sexuality Studies 4pm TOMORROW September 6 at Deakin Downtown, Melbourne. Read on...
Trust, Young People and Digital Media 4th Annual Meeting of the Young Creative Connected (YCC) Research Network 30 September to 1 October, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland There is no fee to participate in this seminar, and lunches will be provided. There are a limited number of registrations though. If you are interested in attending, please contact Michael Dezuanni.
Conferences
New: Islam and Society: Challenges and Prospects. AAIMS Second Conference on the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies September 30th- October 1st, Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus. Read on...
New: Dr Rose Butler (Deakin University) and Dr Victoria Stead (Deakin University) are hosting a session on the theme: ‘Locals’, ‘newcomers’ and relations of belonging in the rural Global North’ at the 2020 XV World Congress of Rural Sociology in Cairns next year. Further details about the session and abstract submission details (closing Sept 27, 2019) are available here: http://www.irsa2020.com/program/session-themes/
New: 2019 AASR Conference: Religion and Violence 4-6 December 2019, Sydney city campus, University of Newcastle The 2019 AASR Conference will be held from 5-6 December and include a free full day workshop for postgraduates and early career researchers on 4 December. Four postgraduate bursaries are offered (worth $500 each). Application deadline:30 September 2019. Early bird conference registration ends 30 September 2019; last day to register 27 November 2019. This conference is co-hosted by the AASR and the University of Newcastle's Centre for the Study of Violence and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. More info: https://www.aasr.org.au/2019-conference1
New: Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times September 27-28, Berlin (The event will also be recorded and streamed) For the full details, read on...
Beyond the quick fix: migration, multi- and interculturalism in regional and rural Australia One-day inter-disciplinary Symposium, Tuesday 12th November, La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo Regional Migration and Multiculturalism research cluster at La Trobe University Submission deadline: September 13. Read on...
Re-creating Landscape and Culture in a Time of Global Change International Association for Society and Natural Resources Cairns, Australia, June 23-26, 2020. Read on...
Activism at the Margins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change 10 - 12 February 2020 RMIT University, Melbourne Abstract Submission deadline: October 1. Read on...
Rural sustainability in the urban century XV World Congress of Rural Sociology 8-12 July 2020, Cairns, Australia Submission deadline: September 27. Read on...
SAANZ Conference 2019 - Sociology for Everyone. University of Auckland, 3-6 December SAANZ has 5 great keynotes lined up for this year’s conference, including our very own Raewyn Connell, and they are pleased to announce a sixth: Professor Roger Burrows. Futher details are available here. Abstract submission closes September 20th (and early bird rego runs until October 4: TASA members pay the SAANZ member rate). Submission deadline: 5pm September 20. Read on...
Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 14- 18 July 2020 Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...
ISA Research Committee 22 (An international scholarly organization for the Sociology of Religion) IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 14- 18 July 2020 Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...
The 28th American Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference ‘Masculinities in Transition.’ 19-22 March 2020. Greeley, Colorado, USA. Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2019. Read on...
Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Strengthening Science and Collaboration June 25-27, 2020, New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. Submission deadline: November 1. Read on...
Contested Identities: Critical Conceptualisations of the Human The South African Society for Critical Theory (SASCT) Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 22- 23 November Submission deadline: September 7. Read on...
Data Futures Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
30 September, 9 am – 5 pm, followed by drinks and the launch of the SAM Media Futures Lab. Read on...
TASA Documents and Policies
You can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures & TASA's History, via TASAweb here.
Accessing Online Materials
From March last year, the list of available Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals jumped from 36 to 91 peer-reviewed journals encompassing over 63,000 articles.
To access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, please click here for instructions, if needed.
Gift Memberships
Gift memberships are available with TASA. If you would like to purchase a gift membership, please email the following details through to the TASA Office:
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Upon receiving the above details, TASA will email the recipient with full details on how they can take up the gift membership. You can view an example of that email in both Word (39kb) and Pdf (159kb) formats. You will receive an invoice, via email, after the recipient completes the online membership form.
Newsletter Submissions
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The theme of the forthcoming Congress (July 2022) is Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies. We welcome, and encourage, you to spread the word using this flyer.
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