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In case you missed our recent email, the locations for our TASA 2019 & TASA 2020 conferences have been confirmed. Next year's event will be hosted by a team of sociologists within Western Sydney University at Parramatta city. Updates for this conference will be communicated shortly. The host of our 2020 event will be the School of Sociology team at Australian National University, Canberra. For now though, our 3rd keynote for this year's conference, Madeleine Leonard, is profiled in this newsletter.

Employment Opportunities

Postdoctoral Fellow

Australian National University, Canberra                                                                    The position will support an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant exploring “Lactation After Loss: Breastmilk suppression , expression and donation in contemporary motherhood and health care delivery” held by Dr Katherine Carroll and Professor Catherine Waldby in the School of Sociology and the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU and will be located in the School of Sociology.                                                                  Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

Administrative Assistant/Reception

Research Support at the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI)                             Part time, Fixed Term until December 31, 2018. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

Medical Cannabis

Applications for a University of Queensland PhD Scholarship ($27,082 per annum) on medicinal cannabis are now open. The successful applicant will be supervised by Health Sociologist Dr Rebecca Olson, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, as they complete a qualitative study into palliative care patients’ perceptions of medical cannabis as part of an NHMRC study on medicinal cannabis in patients with advanced cancer. Experience in conducting qualitative research and a background in the social sciences and health (e.g., health sociology, medical anthropology, criminology, critical public health) are desired. Please contact Rebecca Olson for further information: r.olson@uq.edu.au .

Interfaith Movement in Australia

Applications for a University of Tasmania PhD Scholarship on the Interfaith Movement in Australia are now open. This project is one part of a larger ARC Discovery project on religious diversity in Australia led by Douglas Ezzy (University of Tasmania), Gary Bouma (Monash University), Greg Barton and Anna Halafoff (both from Deakin University). The PhD project involves a study of the interfaith movement in Australia, focusing on evaluating their impact on responses to religious diversity. The project involves research with leaders and activists in the Australian interfaith movement about the benefits of and challenges faced in their activities and their experience of liaising with state actors, including police and the media. The PhD is at the University of Tasmania and will be supervised by Professor Douglas Ezzy and Dr Anna Halafoff. Read on...

TASA 2018

This week we are featuring the third TASA 2018 keynote speaker Madeleine Leonard. Madeleine is a Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Belfast. She is particularly interested in creative and participatory approaches to including children in the research process.  She employs a range of mainly qualitative methods in her research with children and their childhoods.  Her main research interest is in teenagers’ everyday experiences of growing up in politically sensitive societies, and she has carried out research into the experiences and perceptions of Catholic and Protestant teenagers growing up in Belfast as part of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project ‘Conflict in Cities and the Contested State’ (www.conflictincities.org). She has also carried out research with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot teenagers growing up in Nicosia, funded by the British Council.  She has a number of publications on children’s experiences of and attitudes to protracted political conflict.  She is a founder member of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network for the Sociology of Children and Childhood.  Her recent publications include two books: The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation, London: Sage, 2016 and Teens and Territory in Post-Conflict Belfast: If Walls Could Talk, Manchester University Press, 2017.

Posters

If you would like to present at TASA 2018, and you are not an Honours student or above, you are invited to submit a poster presentation. More details about this will be available soon.

Health Sociology Review

Call for New Editorial Team

Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal Health Sociology Review for the four-year term 2019–2022. Transition arrangements will begin in 2018, although the content for the first issue of 2019 will be finalised by the out-going editors. Submissions due: June 29. Read on...

Journal of Sociology

Launch - Special Issue

Sociology in the 21st Century: Challenges Old and New
Hosted by / Institute for Culture and Society & / School of Social Sciences & Psychology       Thursday May 3, 1:00pm, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South campus           Join fellow members to celebrate a special issue of Journal of Sociology edited by
Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, David Rowe and Deborah Stevenson, and including contributions from Rob Stones, Kate Huppatz, Liam Magee & Adam Possamai. Read on...

Call for Submissions

Special Edition 2020: The Journal of Sociology is an international journal published four times a year by Sage. Each year the Editors invite expressions of interest from the international community of sociological scholars in guest editing a Special Edition of the Journal. Special Editions may address any sociological theme which is likely to be of interest to the Journal readership.                                                                Expressions of Interests due: July 9. Read on...

Latest First 'On Line' 

Last week two of the three articles listed here were incorrectly attributed to a pending special issue edited by Sue Malta, Cassie Curryer and Michael Fine. To find out more about that special issue, please click on their article link below:

Cassie Curryer, Sue Malta & Michael Fine (2018). Contesting Boomageddon? Identity, politics and economy in the global milieu. Journal of Sociology.  Article first published online: April 12, 2018

Paternoster, Henry John., Deborah Warr and Keith Jacobs (2018) ' The enigma of the bogan and its significance to class in Australia: a socio-historical analysis' Journal of Sociology. Article first published online: April 20, 2018

Content Alerts

For instructions on how to set up the Table of Contents email alerts for the Journal of Sociology, please right click here and open them up in a new tab.

2018 Awards

• Stephen Crook Memorial Prize - Closes Monday April 30.  Read on...
• Raewyn Connell Prize - Closes Monday April 30. Read on...
• Outstanding Service to TASA - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Sociology in Action - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize - Closes June 30. Read on...

For details, please go to the Social Sciences Week website. 

TASA members attending ISA 2018 Toronto

Our list of TASA members going to Toronto has reached 50 members.  If you are not on the list below, and you are going to Toronto, please email the TASA Office and we'll include you in next week's newsletter.

Journal - Articles

Stephens, Anne, and Monro, Davena (2018) Training for Life and Healing: The Systemic Empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Men and Women Through Vocational Education and Training. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2018.5

Stephens, Anne, Lewis, Ellen, and Reddy, Shravanti (2018) Towards an Inclusive Systemic Evaluation for the SDGs: Gender equality, Environments and Marginalized voices (GEMs). Evaluation, 24 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389018766093

Oznur Sahin (2018). "From home to city: gender segregation, homosociality and publicness in Istanbul". Gender, Place and Culture.

Anderson, A. (2017) "Toward a genealogy of the liberal government of youth". Journal of Youth Studies, pp. 1-17.

Riaz Hassan, Mikhail Balaev and Abusalleh Shariff, 'Minority Size and socioeconomic inequalities: A case study of Muslim minority in India', International Sociology 33:3: 386-406, 2018

Reports/Guides

Sue Malta & colleagues, 'Conversations for Change: What should an age-friendly community look like in 2050?' Old Colonists’ Association of Victoria

Sue Malta - lead researcher -  'Safeguarding the End of the Rainbow' - A guide to help LGBTI people to plan an end of life of their choice

Informed News & Analysis

Scott Doidge, 'Friday essay: the politics of the US family sitcom, and why Roseanne rocks.' The Conversation

Lisa Denny, 'Migration is slowing Australia’s rate of ageing, but not necessarily in the regions.' The Conversation

Riaz Hassan,  'The UAE's Unsustainable Nation Building​', YaleGlobal, April 24, 2018

Informed Opinions

James Arvanitakis, 'IVF is a sausage factory I was not prepared for' The Age

Blogs

Deborah Lupton, 'Digital health promotion: possibilities and limitations'

Ann Game, 'Toppole in spring'

Ann Game, 'La Verna in spring'

Podcasts

Nicholas Hookway, 'Making your donation dollar go further'. ABC Radio National, Life Matters

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. 

Fellow member Robert Holton has been invited to give a keynote presentation at the Workshop 'Robotics and New Digital Skills: European and Australasian Dialogues' held in May at the Technical University of Munich. The Workshop is organized by the Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities. Migrations, and Cultural Transformations at the University of South Australia. The title of the keynote is 'Industry 4.0: Speculative Rhetoric or Social Transformation'. Robert will also be giving a masterclass on 'The Future of Employment: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Skills for the 21st Century', for postgraduates and early career researchers.

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

Re-imagining economic security & wellbeing in an age of precarity

Workshop for TASA members hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, Employment and Social Movements’ Thematic Groups    Melbourne, Friday 23 November                                                                                        Abstract submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

International Sociological Association

Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) 

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the globaldatabase of sociologists.

GMSSI aims to identify, connect, and enable global collaborations in sociology, and support sociologists who encounter multiple barriers, economic and political, which impede participation in global exchanges.

GMSSI aims to increase the visibility of sociologists and their knowledge production and also be an important resource for sustained interaction with the media on a range of issues.

Your participation is important to the success of GMSSI in building this global sociological community.

To start: Go to https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/gmssi/callforparticipants.cgi where ISA briefly explain what the site is about and where they offer a link to sign in or sign up. You do not need to be a member of ISA to participate. 

Call for Participants/Volunteers

Medical Tourism: Australian perspectives and experiences - Call for participants

Volunteers needed for research on overseas medical treatment – Have you or someone you know recently travelled overseas from Australia for a medical procedure? This research study seeks to examine how Australians engage in and understand travelling overseas for medical procedures. We invite participants who are Australian residents aged over 18 years and have travelled overseas for a medical procedure in the last 12 months to complete a survey on their experiences. We would also like to interview people about their experiences in order to gain a more in-depth understanding of their decision-making processes, engagement with health care practitioners and their perspectives on the outcomes of their procedures.

To access more information about the study including the Participant Information Statement and to complete the survey please click on the following link: https://redcap.sydney.edu.au/surveys/?s=T8M839A3HC 

If you would like to participate in an interview please provide your contact details at the end of the survey. 

Additional information about the study may be obtained from Dr Rowena Forsyth, Lecturer, Discipline of Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, email:  rowena.forsyth@sydney.edu.au  , Phone: 02 9351 9577. 

This study has received approval from the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (protocol number 2017/1010). 

Launch of Mission Australia’s Youth Survey 2018

Mission Australia has just launched the Youth Survey 2018! This is the 17th annual online survey run by Mission Australia that gives voice to the concerns, values and thoughts of young people aged 15-19 across the country. This year’s survey will ask new focus questions to delve deeper into issues around social media, alcohol and drugs, barriers to employment and how young people feel about their community. The voices of young people in this research helps us to advocate strongly on their behalf to government, policy, and community organisations about the issues and services that matter to them.

It would be great to get first year sociology students (or any other discipline!) across the country to take part, and could be a great tool for teaching social research methods. The survey can be accessed at www.missionaustralia.com.au/youthsurvey, and is open until Tuesday the 31st of July 2018.

We use the survey data to produce a national report—released at the same time as this year’s TASA conference!—which will be of interest to TASA members, especially those in the Sociology of Youth, Media, and Families and Relationships streams, among others.

Please get in touch with Erin Carlisle at carlislee@missionaustralia.com.au if you have any questions or are keen to get involved!

Experiences of Health Testing and Screening

TASA members Alan Petersen and Kiran Pienaar, both from Monash University, are conducting research into the use of testing in healthcare. As part of this study, they are calling for volunteers to complete a short online survey. They are looking for those who have participated, or been invited to participate, in bowel, breast or cervical cancer screening & those who have recently undergone, or considered undergoing, a medical test. See, Online survey: Experiences of health testing and screening.  

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Call for Book Chapters

Provisional title When Students Protest: Politics and Young People                   A call for submissions to an edited volume on the topic of student political action.    Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

Seminars

Displacements: From Everyday Experience to Global Policy - A Monash GPS Public Discussion. Please join Monash GPS & friends as they will be launching the Signs special issue on Displacement.                                                                                                    Monday 07 May 2018, 5:30-8pm, Monash Law Chambers                                                  RSVP deadline: Monday 30 April. Read on...

Symposiums

Digital Intimacies 4: Porousness & Permutations
December 5, 6 & 7, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia                              Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities in Oceania                                          Keynote Speaker: Debra McDougall (Melbourne University) -‘Crashing waves: The transnational force of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Oceania and beyond’  17-18 of August, Parramatta                                                                                              Submission deadline: Monday April 30. Read on...

Call for Book Proposals

A new Palgrave book series edited by TASA members Kim Toffoletti (Deakin) and Holly Thorpe (U.Waikato, NZ) (along with Jessica Francombe-Webb, U.Bath, UK) is seeking book proposals. The series, titled ‘New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures’, welcomes proposals that investigate gender identities and assemblages in sport, physical culture and fitness contexts. For more details please contact kim.toffoletti@deakin.edu.au or follow this link.

Call for Papers

Contention - The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest. Contention accepts research articles with novel findings, critical review articles (4,000 to 7,000 words, including notes and references), theoretical essays, and book reviews (800 to 1,200 words). Contention also accepts commentaries aiming at increasing interdisciplinary debate between authors. Academics may propose a commentary to one of the articles published or may be invited by the editors to comment on an article submitted for publication. Read on...

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change is an international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed and open access journal. It aims to publish excellent cultural analysis from a range of perspectives. It welcomes innovative and original conceptual and empirical research drawn from a number of disciplines including sociology, social theory, cultural studies, history, cultural anthropology and media studies. Read on...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Seminar Series

Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street, Tower 2, Docklands, Victoria. The seminars are held on the first Friday of every month. Fellow member Brady Robards is scheduled to speak next Friday May 4. The full list of speakers for the year can be viewed here.

Deakin's new Gender & Sexuality Studies blog can be viewed here. Please note, recordings of past seminars have started to appear on the blog. 

Conferences

TASA 2018 Precarity, Rights and Resistance                                                   November 19 - 22, 2018 Deakin University, Burwood                                                Submission deadline: June 4. Read on...

1st International Conference On Child Protection in Africa                                     8th - 10th August. Nairobi, Kenya                                                                                    Submission deadline: May 9. Read on...

Frontiers and Border Regions                                                                               November 28 - 30, 2018. Beja (Tunisia)                                                                          Submission deadline: June 30. Read on... 

9th Urban Space and Social Life:  Theory and Practice - Development and Heritage: Present, Past, and Future                                                                                                  June 7 - 10
Budapest, Hungary. Corvinus University of Budapest                                                Submission deadline: Monday April 30. Read on...

Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific                                   This year’s conference will explore the increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain world that young people across the Asia Pacific live in.                                                                  15 – 16 November,  Deakin Downtown, Melbourne                                                            Keynote speakers include fellow members Shanthi Robertson and Crystal Abidin Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

Oceania Ethnography and Education Network  - for scholars interested in the socio-cultural analysis of education.                                                                                                16-17 August 2018 at Deakin Downtown (Melbourne, Vic)                                          Submission deadline: Tuesday May 1. Read on...

International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe 16-19th of November, Chengdu, China.                                                                                Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

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:

1. First name of gift recipient;
2. email address of gift recipient;
3. the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
4. the cost of the membership; and
5. who the Membership Invoice should be made out to;

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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