The Australian Sociological Association: Members' Newsletter
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TASA 2019 acceptance emails have been disseminated. If you submitted an abstract or a paper and you haven't received an email advising you of your submission status, please contact Ainslie Bishop. Ainslie will double check your email address and resend the notification email.
As previously advised, the Presenter registration deadline is September 6.
Congratulations
A warm congratulations to fellow member Ryan Storr, & TASA 2019 LOC member, who was recently awarded the Most Outstanding Management Doctorate Award by the Graduate Management Association of Australia. Ryan's supervisors were fellow members Karen Farquharson and Ramon Spaaij. There are a few photos available via this Twitter link.
Employment Opportunities
Lecturer - Sociology Monash University, Clayton Application deadline: August 30. Read on...
PhD Scholarship Opportunities
Understanding and Promoting the Social and Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+ Young People Institute for Culture and Society / School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University Application deadline: August 31. Read on...
Indigenous Land & Justice Research Hub PhD scholarship University of Technology, Sydney Application deadline: September 30. Read on...
Contesting Australian Sport Culture: Women and the Rise of Contact Sport A PhD Scholarship is available to undertake a project aligned with the DECRA, working with fellow TASA member Adele Pavlidis at Griffith University. Expression of Interest deadline: August 31. Read on...
Spotlight
Sociologist looking for work
Ron Baird's research interests are in the areas of youth cultures, youth deviancy, urban sociology, community studies, practice theory and informal learning. Ron completed their PhD in December 2018 at the Youth Research Centre, MGSE at the University of Melbourne. Ron's PhD study investigated how young people, primarily young males, learn the practice of graffiti writing. Ron found that aspiring graffiti writers learn informally by observation and participation within a community of practice.
Ron's areas of expertise include Bodies and embodiment, Community Research, Criminology, Deviance & Social Control, Culture and Cultural Policy, Digital Sociology, Education, Emotions and Affect, Law and Society, Methodology, Qualitative research, Teaching Sociology, Urban Sociology, & Youth. Ron has experience in unit coordination and is looking for work in Tutorials/Seminars, Teaching as well as Lectures, Marking, Research Assistance, Grant writing & Consultancy. You can contact Ron by emailing rbaird@unimelb.edu.au.
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.
A few weeks ago, TASA's Executive met over two-days in Melbourne to discuss all things TASA and Sociology. Meredith Nash, pictured right with baby August (taken at the meeting!) is the leader of our new portfolio, Equity & Inclusion. Among other things, Meredith is a professional coach and an academic sociologist. If you haven't already, you can meet Meredith, and August!, at TASA 2019 in November, Sydney.
Members' Publications
Journal Articles
Farrugia, D. (2019). How youth become workers: Identity, inequality and the post-Fordist self. Journal of Sociology.
Kim, D., Graham, T., Wan, Z., & Rizoiu, M. A. (2019). Analysing user identity via time-sensitive semantic edit distance (t-SED): a case study of Russian trolls on Twitter. Journal of Computational Social Science, 1-21. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-019-0N0051-x
Stone M, Kokanovic R, Callard F & Broom A. (2019) Estranged relations: coercion and care in narratives of supported decision-making in mental healthcare. Medical Humanities. doi:10.1136/ medhum-2018-011521. Note, now available free online.
Mogensen, L, Hu, W. 2019. “A doctor who really knows...”: a survey of community perspectives on medical students and practitioners with disability. BMC Medical Education, 19:288. URL: https://rdcu.be/bMmY9. Note, now available free online.
Informed News & Analysis
Shanthi Robertson & Henry Sherrell (August 7) Most migrants on bridging visas aren’t ‘scammers’, they’re well within their rights. The Conversation.
Deborah Lupton (August 7, 2019) According to TV, heart attack victims are rich, white men who clutch their hearts and collapse. Here’s why that’s a worry. The Conversation.
Deborah Morris & Ben Wadham (August 6, 2019) Enough inquiries that go nowhere – it’s time for a royal commission into veteran suicide. The Conversation.
David Rowe (August 6, 2019) Will time time tear us apart? Exploring the appeal of Joy Division 40 years on. The Conversation.
Michelle Peterie, Gaby Ramia, Greg Marston, & Roger Patulny (August 6, 2019) These ‘job snob’ claims don’t match the evidence. The Conversation.
Peter Walters & Naomi Smith (August 2, 2019) How Hong Kong protesters have been winning the battle for public space. The Conversation.
Aqua Hastings (May 27, 2019) 'Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine use in the remote setting' in Australian Cultural Safety and Security News Volume 1, Number 2, 2019 ISSN 2652-0524, pp. 22-26.
Newsletters
The Vitalities Lab is led by SHARP Professor Deborah Lupton, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. The Vitalities Lab latest Newsletter is available here.
Blogs
James Arvanitakis: Finding middle ground on 'PC'.
Ann Game (August 7, 2019) Belonging in Anghiari – Andrea Calli
Abidin, Crystal (July 31, 2019) Minority influencers, Satire, and Subversive frivolity. wishcrys.com.
Podcasts
Nicholas Hookway (July 31, 2019) Will a robot take your job?
Exploring Violence and Society - Episode 2: The Domestic Violence Workforce with Associate Professor Kris Natalier (Flinders University). Associate Professor Kris Natalier unpacks recent findings about the Domestic Violence Workforce and demonstrates how the sociological imagination helps us see the gendered and structural nature of violence within this profession.
Health Sociology Review
2021 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
The following fellow members, based at La Trobe University, have all been promoted recently:
- Dr Katie Wright is now Associate Professor
- Dr Martina Boese is now Senior Lecturer
- Dr Sara James is now Senior Lecturer (current Thematic Group Portfolio Leader)
Thematic Groups
2019 TASA Health Day: Data, Technology and Sociology in the Age of Digital Health
FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – Submission deadline TOMORROW August 9
Friday November 29th, 2019.
Invited Speakers:
Professor Alan Petersen, Professor of Sociology with the Health and Biofutures Focus Program at Monash University. Professor Petersen is an internationally renowned health sociologist at the forefront of debate about the development and use of health technologies and digital media, and how they shape people’s connection with healthcare.
Professor Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW, Sydney. Professor Lupton is a leading international sociologist in digital technologies and data. She will present on innovative methods for understanding the more-than-human worlds of digital health.
The day will also include network activities. Read on...
Please submit your abstract (with name, affiliation and paper title) of 150-200 words to Marika Franklin by TOMORROW August 9.
NextGen Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Symposium
A one-day research symposium. 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. Thursday, 3 October, 8.30am-4.30pm Immigration Museum, Melbourne. Two travel bursaries of $400 each will be available for interstate TASA members who are postgrads/sessional staff/unwaged and whom without this financial support, would otherwise be unable to attend. If you would like to be considered for the travel bursary, please contact Jora Broerse at jozefien.broerse@live.vu.edu.au. For full event details, please read on...
Social Sciences Week (SSW)
Practicing action research – Reflecting on generating a new ‘full cycle’ social science
New: 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...
Public Lecture: AI is not what you think
New: AI is not what you think Speaker: Anthony Elliott Nicholas Hookway, TASA's Public Engagement Portfolio Leader, has organised this Public Lecture. September 11, 6:00pm, Adelaide. 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
Canberra Writers Festival
New: Ivory Towers, Canberra Writers Festival The higher education industry is booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and an unprecedented flow of funds to the university sector. So why is there a university crisis? 11.30 am to 12.30, main hall, University House ANU, Sunday 25 August. Speakers: Raewyn Connell, Ian Chubb, Don Watson, Julie Hare. See page 15 of the program.
Call for Interviewees
New: Volunteer Experiences in Australian Immigration Detention Facilities The study is being conducted by fellow member Michelle Peterie, who is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Research and contact details are located on the study website here.
Call for Participants
Fellow member Michael Walsh conducting a survey of Twitter users, aged 18 years and over. The research team's aim is to explore perceptions of interacting on twitter and examine attitudes towards incivility on that social media platform. Read on...
Invitation to sign up to the Vitalities Lab mailing list.
The Vitalities Lab is a new initiative based at UNSW Sydney, led by Deborah Lupton. As part of its research training and mentorship activities, the VLab hosts presentations from visitors and runs regular pop-up reading groups and methods workshops, open to all who may be in or close to Sydney on the day. If you would like to be informed of these events, please contact Deborah and she will add you to the mailing list.
Public Lectures
New: 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: Thursday 5 September 2019 – as places are limited, please register to secure your spot. Read on...
New: 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...
‘Managing diversity in junior sport: the tension between participation and talent identification’ Tuesday 20 August , The University of Melbourne Whether it’s within the workplace or on the sporting field, ‘diversity’ involves managing talent. In this public lecture, fellow member Karen Farquharson will explore how community-based junior sports clubs balance the desire to provide participation opportunities for children and the imperative to win. Bookings: Free, but required. 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...
Monash Migration & Inclusion Centre public lecture: Migration & Border Games: Interlegality and Crisis in the European Union Maartje van der Woude (Professor of Law & Society at Leiden University) Thursday 15 August 2019, 5-8pm (lecture from 5:30-6:30pm with drinks & canapes to follow)
Seminar Rooms 2 & 3, Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne This event is free but registration is a must, read on...
Call for Debate Pieces
The editors of Evidence & Policy are currently calling for debate pieces to help advance key controversies and discussions in the interdisciplinary field of knowledge use. Read on...
Call for Reviews
The editors of Evidence & Policy is focused on scholarship concerned with the interplay between evidence and policy/practice. They are currently seeking to commission a series of reviews to summarise the state of the science as a foundation for progressing key issues and debates within the interdisciplinary field of knowledge use. To ensure that these reviews are accessible to all, they will be published open access, free of charge. Read on...
Call for Special Issues
The editors of Evidence & Policy journal are currently seeking proposals for a special issue to be published in 2021 or later. Interested applicants are asked to submit a two-page proposal to the journal by 24th September. Read on...
Masterclass
Monash Migration & Inclusion Centre postgraduate masterclass: Balancing Activism & Academia in Studying Migration and Border Control: Access, Positionality and Dissemination Maartje van der Woude (Professor of Law & Society at Leiden University) Friday 23 August 2019, 10am-3:30pm (with lunch provided)
Tutorial room 141, Learning & Teaching Building, Monash University, Clayton Campus. Read on...
Workshops
Re/imagining Personal Data University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1 October 2019 Registration and lunch are free, but places are strictly limited. Please contact Deborah Lupton as soon as possible with an email noting that you’d like to register to secure your place. Read on...
Seminars
New: 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 on September 6 at Deakin Downtown, Melbourne. Read on...
Monash Migration & Inclusion Centre seminar series: Crimmigrant framing and the role of race, nationality and ethnicity in European migration and border control Maartje van der Woude (Professor of Law & Society at Leiden University) Wednesday 21 August 2019, 12-1:30pm (with lunch provided)
Room N402, Menzies Building, 20 Chancellors Walk, Monash University, Clayton. 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
2019 AASR Conference on 'Religion and Violence' December 5-6 at the city campus of the University of Newcastle Submission deadline extended to TODAY 8 August. Read on...
SAANZ Conference 2019 - Sociology for Everyone. University of Auckland, 3-6 December 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...
New: 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...
Rural sustainability in the urban century XV World Congress of Rural Sociology 8-12 July 2020, Cairns, Australia Submission deadline: September 27. 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...
Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration and Exile
14-15 November 2019, Canberra, Australia Submission deadline: September 1. 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...
Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals Massey University, Wellington New Zealand, December 10-11 Submission deadline: August 30. 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:
- First name of gift recipient;
- email address of gift recipient;
- the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
- the cost of the membership; and
- 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
We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced) for the next newsletter, to the TASA Office. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning.
To ensure your publications listed in this newsletter, & subsequently on TASAweb, are referenced correctly by third party users, it would be greatly appreciated if you could email your publications to TASA's Office in a referenced format.
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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.
The International Sociological Association has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the global database 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.
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