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Congratulations

A warm congratulations is extended to Yolande Strengers who, as the lead, was recently awarded Linkage Project funding by the Australian Research Council for:

• Digital energy futures: forecasting changing residential electricity demand. (LP180100203), Primary FOR 1608. The partners are Ausgrid, AusNet Services and Energy Consumers Australia.

Jean Martin Award

TASA's Jean Martin Award (JMA) recognises excellence in scholarship in the field of Sociology and aims to assist with establishing the career of a recent PhD graduate. The 2019 JMA round is for theses for which a PhD has been formally awarded between the period March 1st 2017 to 28 February 2019.                                                                        Nomination deadline: March 1. Read on...

Looking for Work Register

Spotlighting sociologists for hire: Karly Burch

Karly Burch completed their PhD in sociology at the University of Otago in 2018. Dr Burch’s PhD was focussed on the aftermath of the nuclear disasters in Japan, using insights from institutional ethnography and material semiotics to explore people’s troubling experiences of everyday eating following the onset of the disasters in 2011. Dr Burch moved back to Japan following their PhD and is actively looking for opportunities for employment, writing and collaborative work.

Dr Burch has a range of areas of expertise, including agriculture, applied sociology, disasters, environment and society, feminism, food, institutional ethnography, local/global relations, qualitative research, science and technology. Dr Burch is looking for work in both teaching (tutorials, seminars, lectures, marking) and research assistance (including grant writing).

You can email Dr Burch on karlyburch@gmail.com.

Employment Opportunities

New: Senior Lecturer                                                                                                                Monash University, Clayton                                                                                                      Application deadline: March 5. Read on...

New: Lecturer in Dementia                                                                                                            The Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre (Wicking Centre)                          University of Tasmania                                                                                                              Applications close: 18 February. Read on...

New: The Melbourne Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to be a part of the Youth Research Centre, with the Life Patterns research team that has an excellent track record in producing high quality research outputs and provides a supportive and collaborative research environment.            Application deadline: February 28. Read on...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Policy and Regulatory Aspects of Synthetic Biology. University of Queensland, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, St Lucia. The postdoctoral fellow will undertake a research program that contributes to our understanding of the national and international regulatory contexts in which synthetic biology technologies exist.                                                                                              Application deadline: 4 February Read on...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Human Rights. University of Queensland, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, St Lucia. The postdoctoral fellow will undertake a research program to develop our understanding and analysis of digital human rights, in both developed and developing country contexts.                                          Application deadline: 4 February. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

New: The Institute for Culture and Society is advertising a new HDR scholarship funded through a new interdisciplinary Centre of Research Excellence for Adolescent Health (NHMRC) working with Philippa Collin, Amanda Third and Teresa Swist. We are seeking a PhD candidate with interest in the ways in which gender, ethnicity, sexuality, time, and place inform young people’s perceptions of health, health literacy, help-seeking and access to services. We are specifically interested in receiving applications that address one of the following topics:

• Creating young crowds – how issue-based and networked communities form and can inform health research and translation.
• Action research on enabling youth participation in health research and translation.
• The politics of engagement with young people in health and how communities and institutions might be transformed to achieve youth-centred approaches.
• Arts-based methods exploring cultural diversity and health.
• Mapping cultures of care in adolescent health research and service provision.
• The logics of digital health campaigns and alternative possibilities.
• Digital health literacies and (in)equity.

Application deadline: January 31. Read on...

Nottingham Trent University are offering over 50 fully-funded PhD studentships that are open to international students.                                                                                          Application deadline: February 25. Read on...

Call for applications to the PhD program at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy. They have 17 fully funded PhD grants (for 4 years). The program is entirely held in English and the call has
no restriction of nationality.
Application deadline: 28 February. Read on...

CSIRO, in collaboration with the University of Queensland, is offering 8 PhD scholarships for social researchers in the field of ‘Responsible Innovation’ for projects starting in the first half of 2019. There are projects on diverse topics, some of which might be of specific interest to the social science/development studies community. Specific topics that might be of interest to you include: new personalised foods and impacts for health; social, legal and ethical implications of the digital revolution in agriculture; and the impact of cultural diversity on the development and use of novel biological systems. But there are many more that might also pick your interest.                                                                                If you, or someone you know is looking for a post graduate research opportunity, this could be for you!. Please visit https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/csiro-uq-ri for further details of projects on offer, and for details of how to apply.                                                Applications close 31 January with a start date scheduled for April. Please contact Kristen.lyons@uq.edu.au for more information.

The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at Western Sydney University have a scholarship opportunity on a project, 'Youth Mobilities and Digital Lives: Understanding Transnational Mobility's Impacts Through Social Media'. The PhD project will be based at ICS with the opportunity to work with the ICS-based supervisor, Dr Shanthi Robertson, on social media analysis/digital ethnography techniques to understand the impacts of transnational mobility on young people’s social, civic and economic lives.                                                                                                 Applications deadline: 31 January. Read on...

Two fully-funded, internationally open PhD opportunities at Deakin University, to study human-animal relations as social in urban India – these are part of an ARC Discovery project ‘Animals and urban planning: Indian cities as Zoöpolises’.                                  Application deadline: 31st January. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Swist, T. & Collin, Philippa. (2019) ‘Playing with Zombie Problems: Gender-Digital-Play assemblage in online campaigns’ in Parry, Johnson, Fullagar (ed) Digital Dilemmas: Transforming gender identities and power in everyday life. Palgrave Macmillan.

Keleher, H. and Belle, M., 2018, ‘The Sociology of Nursing’ in J. Germov (ed), Second Opinion: An introduction to health sociology, 6th ed, Oxford University Press, Sydney: 504-520

Katherine Carroll and Brydan Lenne (2019) ‘Suppress and Express: Breast Milk Donation After Neonatal Death’. In Charlotte Beyer and Andrea Robertson (Eds.) “Mother without their Children” Demeter Press.

Book Reviews

Belle, M. 2018, ‘Kraus, F. and Boldt, J. Care in Healthcare: Reflections on Theory and Practice. eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. 298 pp. 51.95 (hbk) ISBN 978‐3‐319‐61291‐1.’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 40 (8): 1431-1433. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12770

Bryan S. Turner (2019) Book Review: Giuseppe Giordan and Adam Possamai, Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity. Journal of Sociology. 

Carol Reid (2019) Book Review: Pam Nilan, Muslim Youth in the Diaspora: Challenging Extremism through Popular Culture. Journal of Sociology. 

Journal - Articles

Ben A. Lohmeyer (2019). ‘Keen as Fuck’: Youth participation in qualitative research as ‘parallel projects’. Qualitative Research. doi:10.1177/1468794118816627

Belle,  M.  2018, ‘The Palgrave International Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Medicine and Illness’, Health Sociology Review, 27 (2): 229-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2018.1465832

Informed News & Analysis

Brendan Churchill (January 23, 2019) Australia can do more to attract and keep women in parliament – here are some ideas. The Conversation. 

Blogs

Sherene Idriss (January 21, 2019) The presentation of (ECR) self in higher education: insecurities, impression management and book deals by Sherene Idriss. TASA Youth.

Anoushka Benbow (January 20, 2109) Fiction: Smiling Gives You Wrinkles. The Sociological Review. 

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. 

Michael Flood has been invited as a keynote to the following two events:

• Canadian Women in Management Conference, February 12-13, Toronto
• Leading Change Summit (Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters), February 19-21, Edmonton

Late last year, Michael was also a keynote at the following two conferences:

• Flood, M. (2018). Engaging men in the prevention of men’s violence against women: How to get men in the door, inspire and mobilise them, and reduce resistance. Keynote address, Connexions 15th Annual Conference, Central Coast, NSW, November 26 2018.
• Flood, M. (2018). Mobilising men to build gender justice: Strategies for effective movement-building. Keynote address, STOP Domestic Violence Conference Australia, Gold Coast, December 3-5 2018.

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. 

A warm congratulations is extended to both Philippa Collin and Kate Huppatz on their respective promotions to Associate Professor. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Funding Opportunity

New: Funding of up to $7,000 for humanities sector women available. Women & Leadership Australia is administering an initiative to support the development of female leaders across Australia’s humanities sector. The campaign is providing women with grants of between $3,000 and $7,000 to enable participation in a range of leadership development programs. The scholarship funding is provided with the specific intent of providing powerful and effective development opportunities for humanities sector women; however the funding is strictly limited and has to be allocated prior to the end of March. Expression of Interest deadline: March 15. Read on...

Free Journal Access - Limited Time

New: Enjoy free access to the Theory, Culture & Society Annual Review through to February 10. Read on...

Competition for Early Career Researchers

The Universities Australia Pitch It Clever Competition:  This competition is for early career researchers to pitch their research within a 1 - 2 minute video. A selection of Vice Chancellors judge the entries and there are prizes in cash and prestige for the winners (including a People's Choice Award).                                                                                          Submission deadline: TODAY January 24. Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Aesthetics of Form as Social Philosophy. Re-reading Lukács                        Special issue of: Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge                                                    Submission of abstracts deadline: 31st January. Read on...

Nationalism’s Futures                                                                                                        Sociology Special Issue                                                                                                              Deadline for submission of full papers: 10 June 2019. Read on...                                    For any queries regarding this special issue, please contact: 
Bridget Byrne, Helen Holmes, Vanessa May, Shaminder Takhar.

2019 Special Issue Call for papers: Disability and Children's Rights.                      The Canadian Journal on Children’s Rights (CJCR)                                                       Submissions deadline: April 1, 2019. Read on...

Summit

THE  Research Excellence Summit: Asia-Pacific                                                           Research for the public good                                                                                                    19 - 21 February, Sydney                                                                                                                        Early bird registration deadline: January 31. Read on...

Symposiums

TASA Youth 2019 Symposium. Organised by TASA’s Sociology of Youth thematic group with support from TASA and the Youth Research Centre                                          The Ethics of Engagement, Participation and Representation                          University of Melbourne, 21st February                                                                                            Registration is now open. Read on...

Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium 
Monday 28th – Wednesday 30th October 2019                                                                       Hear insights from experts who are working to improve mental health services within rural and remote areas and discover what you can do to provide and advocate for equal mental health care for all Australians                                                                              Submissions deadline: June 28. Read on...

Rural Issues Symposium - The future of rural sociology in Australia, 2019         La Trobe, Bendigo, Friday 28th June, 2019.                                                                                  Keynote presentations from Professor Barbara Pini, Griffith University and Professor Robyn Eversole, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology. In recognition of the unique social experiences of rural, remote, and regional residents, the symposium aims to bring together students, researchers, applied sociologists, community and social services professionals and academics engaging with a range of issues pertinent to rural, remote and regional Australia.                                                                                                                                            Abstracts and scholarship applications due: Friday 22nd March, 2019. Read on...

Conferences

New: Rethinking ‘change’: New theories, new topics, new questions, new methods                                                                                                                                              5th Contemporary Drug Problems Conference                                                                                4-6 September, Prato, Italy                                                                                                        Submission deadline: March 1. Read on...

New: London Conference in Critical Thought 
Friday & Saturday, 5-6 July 2019
Goldsmiths, University of London
Call for Streams                                                                                                                            Submission deadline: TOMORROW January 25. Read on...

Excellence and Gender Equality: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences                                                  Australian National University, 26-28 June                                                                            Submission deadline: March 6. Read on...

Indigenous Conference Services is now accepting papers and offers early bird promotion for its upcoming 2019 Indigenous Conferences which takes you to Cairns, Brisbane, Darwin and Alice Springs. For more details, read on...

2019 International Conference and Workshops on Survey Research Methodology               7-9 August,Taipei Taiwan                                                                                                          Submission deadline: March 5. Read on...

SAANZ Conference 2019 - SAVE THE DATE The Disciplinary Areas of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Auckland will host the 2019 Sociological Association of Aoteroa New Zealand conference. The conference will house a dedicated stream of the Asia-Pacific Science, Technology & Society Network. We also welcome the Gender and Sexuality Group. The conference will be held at the city campus, 3-6 December, 2019. The theme is: Sociology for Everyone. The conference will commence with a pōwhiri (welcome ceremony) at Waipapa marae. The first keynote speaker will be Linda Tuhiwai Smith. There are several more confirmed keynote speakers. Details will follow in the new year.

Political Emotions Conference                                                                              Sociology of Emotions and Effect Thematic Group  conference                                  22 July 2019, Adelaide, Australia                                                                                                  Scholars from any discipline who are thinking about politics and emotions in a social context are invited to send an abstract of 150 words, plus a short biography, to political.emotions@gmail.com by 5pm, Monday 18 February 2019, AEST. Read on...

Education in an Era of Risk - the Role of Educational Research for the Future
ERC: 2 - 3 September 2019, ECER: 3 - 6 September 2019, Universität Hamburg Submissions close: January 31. Read on...

International Conference on Survey Research Methodology                                   8-9 August 2019․Taipei Taiwan                                                                                                Submission deadline: March 5. Read on...

7th International and Interdisciplinary Emotional Geographies Conference      17-19 July 2019                                                                                                                                        Keynote speakers include fellow member, & incoming Applied Sociology Portfolio Leader, Catherine Robinson.                                                                                                 Themed Sessions submission deadline: December 10.                                              Abstract submission deadline: 4 March 2019. Read on...

Illuminating the SOCIAL in Social Problems                                                                 The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)                                                        August 9-11, 2019, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, NY.                                    Submission deadline: January 31. Read on...

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.

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