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Thanks to the great work of TASA's 2018 conference organising team, we will be able to share links in next week's newsletter to the audio recordings of the panels and keynotes that were live streamed. The videos are available now on TASA's Facebook page here. In addition to those sessions, two members submitted audio recordings of their presentations to share with you as well. They are:

Rover’s revolution? Complicity and resistance in human-companion animal relationships by Zoei Sutton. The accompanying slides are available here; and
“Happy Meat” as Resistance? The Promotion and Marketing of Humane Animal Products in Australia by Nick Pendergrast. The accompanying slides are available here.

If you, or someone you know, audio recorded your conference presentation last week, and you would like to share it with fellow members, please do email it to TASA's Office.

Congratulations

A warm congratulations is extended to the following members who were Awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award this week:

Brady Robards: The impact of social media on the employment prospects of young Australians.
Crystal Abidin: Social media influencers as conduits of knowledge in Australia and Asia.
Ashley Barnwell: Family secrets and intergenerational memory in Australia.
Rose Butler: Strengthening intercultural relationships among Australia's rural youth.

If you were awarded some Australian Research Council funding this week, and you would like to share your news, please email the details to TASA's Office.

Whilst we love celebrating the grant wins for sociology and our members, we also would like to acknowledge the time, blood, sweat and tears that other members may have put into grant funding applications that have not been lucky to receive funding in this round. Fellow member Kay Cook wrote about this juxtaposition a few years ago in 'Why grant wins hurt us all'.

A warm congratulations is also extended to a past TASA president, John Germov, on receiving the Best Wine Book Award for Hunter Wine: A History. You can read about the award announcement here.

Spotlight

Sociologist looking for work

Simone Marino is the course coordinator and lecturer of units of Sociology and Migration Studies in the School of Education, and in the School of Creative Industries at the University of South Australia. His research interests include transnational motilities and identities, multicultural policy and the maintenance and loss of minority languages and “cultures” in multicultural societies.

Simone has research expertise in a range of areas, including culture and cultural policy, history of sociology, immigration, ethnicity and multiculturalism, migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism, mobility, nationality and citizenship, racism, nationalism and ethnic relations. Simone is looking for work in teaching (including tutorials, seminars, and lectures) and research assistance work (including grant writing).

You can contact Simone by email or by visiting their website.

Grant Opportunities

Fellowship Funding

2019 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Application deadline: February 1, 2019. Read on...

Scholarship Opportunities

New: 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: TOMORROW 30 November. Read on...

Deakin University are now offering a scholarship to a highly motivated PhD candidate to work on the Youth Mobilities, Aspirations and Pathways (YMAP) project. Applicants are invited to propose a project on any aspect of the impacts of transnational mobility on young people’s social and/or family ties, citizenship and civic lives, and/or economic opportunities and transitions to adulthood. The proposed doctoral project must align with the focus of the YMAP ARC project. This PhD will be based at Deakin and supervised by Professor Anita Harris with external supervision from Prof Baldassar and Dr Shanthi Robertson. Applications deadline: 3 December. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Deana Leahy, Daniel Marshall, Mary Lou Rasmussen (Eds.) (2018) Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship. Routledge.

Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship 1st Edition

Sexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general and for gender and sexually diverse youth in particular, these debates are entangled with broader imaginings of social transitions: from ‘child’ to ‘adult’and from ‘unreasonable subject’ to one ‘who can consent’. This international and interdisciplinary collection identifies and locates struggles for recognition and inclusion in particular contexts and at particular moments in time, recognising that sexual and gender diverse young people are neither entirely vulnerable nor self-reliant.

This innovative book is of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality, health and sex education, and youth studies, from a range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds, including sociology, education, nursing, social work and youth work.

Read on...

Book Chapters

Peter Aggleton, Sujith Kumar Prankumar, Rob Cover, Deana Leahy, Daniel Marshall and Mary Lou Rasmussen (2018) Introduction. In (Eds.) Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Deana Leahy, Daniel Marshall, Mary Lou Rasmussen (2018) Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship. Routledge.

Brady Robards, Brendan Churchill, Son Vivienne, Benjamin Hanckel and Paul Byron (2018) Twenty years of ‘cyberqueer’: The enduring significance of the Internet for young LGBTIQ+ people. In (Eds.) Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Deana Leahy, Daniel Marshall, Mary Lou Rasmussen (2018) Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship. Routledge.

Crystal Abidin and Rob Cover (2018) Gay, famous and working hard on YouTube: Influencers, queer microcelebrity publics, and discursive activism. In (Eds.) Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Deana Leahy, Daniel Marshall, Mary Lou Rasmussen (2018) Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship. Routledge.

Journal - Articles

Christy Newman, Shana Hughes, Asha Persson, Hong-Ha M. Truong, Martin Holt (2018) Promoting ‘Equitable Access’ to PrEP in Australia: Taking Account of Stakeholder Perspectives. Aids and Behaviour. First published online 10 October 2018.

‘North America’s Metropolitan Imaginaries’ by Jeremy C A. Smith in Social Imaginaries, Volume 4:2 2018. Available here.

Waling, A. (2018). ‘I can’t/can I touch him?’: Erotic subjectivity, sexual attraction and research in the field. Qualitative Inquiry. 24(9): 720-727.

Waling, A. (2018). Rethinking masculinity studies: Feminism, masculinity, and poststructural accounts of agency and emotional reflexivity. Journal of Men’s Studies. [Online first]. doi:10.1177/1060826518782980.

Waling, A., Duncan, D., Angelides, S., & Dowsett, G. (2018). ‘Men and Masculinity in Men’s Magazines: A Review.’ Sociology Compass. 12(7):e12593. 1-26. doi: 10.1111/soc4.12593

Waling, A., & Roffee, J. (2018). Supporting LGBTIQ+ students in higher education in Australia: Universities, diversity, inclusion and visibility. Health Education Journal. [Online first]. doi: 10.1177/0017896918762233.

Informed News & Analysis

James Arvanitakis (28 November, 2018) What are tech companies doing about ethical use of data? Not much. The Conversation.

Andrea Waling (17 October, 2018) Our relationship with dick pics: it’s complicated. The Conversation.

Andrea Waling (10 September, 2018) Three things Netflix’s controversial ‘fat-shaming’ series Insatiable gets right. The Conversation.

Micro-vlog

We missed including the 2 Minute Truths Micro-vlog last week so this newsletter has two new ones for you:

Week 4 guest star: Jordan McKenzie - Jordan has a few mentors that he goes to for different reasons. You can access the micro-vlog on Zoei & Ben's 2 Minute Truths website.
Week 5 guest star: Shanthi Robertson - “Stop comparing yourself to other people, and start considering yourself to be the expert in your own research field”. You can access the micro-vlog on Zoei & Ben's 2 Minute Truths website.

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.

Raewyn Connell has been invited to speak at next week's Future of Academic Work: A Deliberative Conference, Sydney. Raewyn will be talking about, 'The Good University, forthcoming with Monash University Publishing and (internationally) Zed Press (Feb 2019), analysing precarious labour in the context of a deeply unequal global higher education industry, changing managerial strategies, and openings for contestation and change.

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.

Sharon Quah was recently confirmed in continuing employment and promoted to Senior Lecturer (Level C) in Sociology with The University of Wollongong, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry. Dr Sharon Quah is currently researching on transnational divorces and families in the Asia-Pacific region. Her research interests include transnational, intersectional feminist perspectives, decoloniality, genders, sexualities, intimacies, emotions, migration, social policy and social justice. She teaches Introduction to Sociology and Genders & Sexualities.

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Competition

Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Submission deadline: January 31, 2019. Read on...

PhD Summer School and One Day Conference

Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities
January 2019 in Sydney, Australia
Hosted by the Community Economies Strategic Initiative, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Registrations will open December 5. Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities Special issue on Cultural and Social Anthropology Submission deadline: December 31. Read on...

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...

Call for Chapters - Book

Theorising the university: critical perspectives on institutional research Edited by Mark Murphy, Ciaran Burke, Cristina Costa and Rille Raaper Submission deadline: December 1. Read on...

Symposiums

New: The Ethics of Engagement, Participation and Representation TASA Youth 2019 Symposium University of Melbourne, 21st February 2019 This one-day symposium offers an opportunity for scholars to present work broadly pertaining to the above provocations. We especially encourage submissions from RHD candidates and ECRs, and are offering four $250 bursaries to postgraduates and unwaged/precariously employed academics living outside of Victoria (to be awarded on the basis of the quality and relevance of their abstracts). Abstract submission deadline: December 21. Read on...

Language, Technology, and Communication in Healthcare. Interdisciplinary research and engagement for 21st century healthcare 10 December, 1:15 pm – 7:00 pm, University of Melbourne This event is free but registration is required. 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: International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) Barcelona, 9-12 July, 2019 The Politics of Religion and Spirituality Submission deadline: 16 December. Read on...

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

Time is Money, and Beyond: The Temporality of Action and Consequences 6-7 May 2019 in Warsaw, Poland Submission deadline: 15 December. Read on...

EGOS 2019 Subtheme 54: Exploring the Labour Dimension of Sustainable Organizations: Ideologies, Struggles, Solutions (Markus Helfen, Andreas Pekarek, Rick Delbridge) Continuing the interdisciplinary exchange between the fields of organization studies and employment relations from two preceding EGOS sub-themes in 2017 and 2018, next year's theme concentrates on the ideologies, struggles and solutions around the labour dimension of the sustainable organization. We invite contributions that explore how labour shapes and is shaped by questions of organizational sustainability and what this means for future world(s) of work. Deadline for short paper submissions: January 14, 2019. 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, 2019. Read on...

Economy & the Possible: Alternative, Missed and Reified Futures in Contemporary Society 20-21 May 2019 in Warsaw (Poland) Submission deadline: 10 December. Read on...

EUROPE AND BEYOND: BOUNDARIES, BARRIERS AND BELONGING
14th ESA Conference, 20-23 August 2019 to be held in Manchester / UK. Read on...

Gift Memberships

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