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The following employment opportunity ends tomorrow. We encourage you to share the details.

Employment Opportunity

The University of Melbourne has a short term position (around four months, full time - negotiable) for an experienced researcher to work with us to write up findings from a media analysis focusing on representations of class in newsprint media. Please contact Deborah Warr at the University of Melbourne to discuss the position.                              Application deadline: TOMORROW January 20. Read on...

Members' Publications

Journal Articles

R. Lloyd, M. Newlands and Theresa Petray (2017) Coral Battleground? Re-examining the ‘Save the Reef’ Campaign in 1960s Australia.Environmental Sociology 3(1): 54-63.

Katie Wright. (2016). ‘Speaking out: Representations of child sexual abuse in media, memoir and public inquiries’. Red Feather Journal: An International Journal of Children in Popular Culture 7(2): 17-30.

Possamai, A., K, Dunn, P. Hopkins, L. Worthington and F. Amin (2016) “Muslim students’ cultural and religious experiences in city, suburban and regional university campuses in NSW, Australia” Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 38 (6): 637-648.

Possamai, A. and V. Iouchkov (2016) “An implicit hyper-real religion: Real-Life Superheroes” in C. Cusack and P. Kosnac eds. Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: Contested Contemporary Religions, London, Routledge: 272-290. 

Giordan, G. and A. Possamai (2016) “The over-policing of the devil: a sociology of exorcism” Social Compass 63 (4): 444-460.

Paul Henman (ed) (2016) Critical encounters with performance measurement in social and public policy, Policy Studies, 37(6)                                                                                               Includes:                                                                                                                                                               Paul Henman, ‘Performing the state: the socio-political dimensions of performance measurement in policy and public services”                                                                                           Michele Foster, Paul Henman, Alison Gable & Michelle Denton, ‘Population health performance as primary healthcare governance in Australia’                                                             Paul Henman, ‘Techniques and paradoxes in performing performance measurement’

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

David Rowe: Australia needs to make sport a more equal playing field: here’s why, The Conversation

Yolande Strengers, Cecily Maller, Larissa Nicholls: Hot dogs and cool cats: keeping pets cool without blowing your energy bill, The Conversation

Blogs

Joni Meenagh: Masculinity So Stale: Cultural Narratives of Men’s Sexual Refusals

Fabian Cannizzo: The Deep Story: A Reflection on Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land

Ann Game: Master woodworker 

Videos

Holly Thorpe: Action Sports for a Better World

Add the TASA twitter feed this semester to your subject moodle shelves!

I would like encourage members to add TASA's Twitter feed to their Moodle shelf (for those who teach at a University which uses Moodle). The instructions are available here.

Luke Gahan, TASA Secretary

Thematic Groups

Sociology of Animals

TASA's thematic groups are designed to facilitate communication and collaboration between TASA members working/studying in similar areas. Every so often, a new one is formed. Presently, there is a 'Call for interest to form a Sociology and Animals Thematic Group'. Members Zoei Sutton (Flinders Uni.) and Nicholas Pendergrast (Melbourne Uni.) state that the burgeoning field of human-animal studies has rapidly expanded as scholars recognise the importance of including non-human animals in our academic endeavours. They are looking for scholars working in non-human animal related areas to join their TASA Sociology and Animals Thematic group. The aim of the group is to create a supportive network of sociologists working in human-animal studies, critical animal studies, or other animal-related areas to facilitate the exchange of ideas and potential future events. If you are interested in this area, please direct your enquiries to Zoei or Nicholas by February 20th.  Instructions to select this thematic group via your My Accounts page can be accessed here.  If there are 15 members interested in this new proposed group, Zoei and Nicholas will submit a request for the first 2017 Executive Meeting.

Competition for Junior Sociologists

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has announced the organization of the Seventh Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists. The winners will be invited to participate in the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology which will take place in Toronto, Canada in July 2018. Junior Scholars mean people who obtained their first Master's degree (or an equivalent graduate diploma) in sociology or in a related discipline, less than 10 years prior to March 31, 2017.                                                                                                      Submission deadline: March 31. Read on...

Free Access to all of Sage's journals

The new SAGE Journals platform is now live. To celebrate the new platform and ensure they provide uninterrupted access to all users, Sage journals, in all disciplines, can be accessed free until the end of January. 

Project

Bitcoin and the unbanked; an ethnographic study of financial inclusion through cryptocurrencies

Alexia Maddox, Greg Adamson, and Supriya Singh are conducting a social study of the use of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Read on...

Research Participant Opportunity

If you are aged 60 years and over the Sexual Health & Ageing, Perspectives and Education (SHAPE) Project, presents a unique opportunity for you to participate in research to improve the wellbeing of older people.  Read on...

Grants

Ten Grants are offered to persons presently registered in a Doctoral Course and now working on their Doctoral Dissertation, in any discipline, concerning European values such as peace, solidarity or equality. Application deadline: January 30, 2017.  Read on...

Summer School

Summer School in European Education Studies (SUSEES)                                   3-7 July, Napoli                                                                                                                                                           CV submission deadline: March 31st. Read on...

Events

Symposium

Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities in Australia                                                                Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University                                          August 11-12                                                                                                                                                     Keynote speaker: Prof Paul Freston (Wilfrid Laurier University)                                       Abstract submission deadline: January 13. Read on...

Seminars

Encountering misrecognition: being mistaken for being Muslim  Professor Peter Hopkins Newcastle University, UK                                                             TODAY Thursday 19 January. Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre, Deakin University (Melbourne Burwood campus), 3.00 to 4.00 pm. Read on...

Conferences

8th Urban Space and Social Life:  Theory and Practice                                          Transforming Urbanity: People and Cities on the Move                                         9 - 12 June, Malyasia                                                                                                       Call for Papers, Photos for Exhibition, and Photo Essays                                        Submission deadline: March 31. Read on...

Critical Approaches to Risk and Security: East, South, North and West             10th-12th April 2017, Singapore                                                                                                     This conference will provide a great opportunity for people to develop networks in South East Asia.  The program will include keynote presentations by: Professor Murry Lee from Sydney University, Professor Maggie Lee from The University of Hong Kong and Professor Adam Burgess from the University of Kent as well as plenary sessions, presentations and seminars around this interdisciplinary theme.                                 Submission deadline: 12th January. Read on...

Education Transforms 2017: Raising aspirations for educational attainment.   Hobart – Tasmania, Australia 11-15 July.   This international meeting brings together scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners to reflect on and share insights about our collective mission to raise aspirations and enhance opportunities for educational attainment.                                                                                                                                                             Abstract submission deadline: 28 February. Read on...

Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South: An International Conference”                                                                                                                                                           Co-hosted by the Crime and Justice Research Centre (QUT) and the Asian Criminological Society                                                                                                                                                                           10-13th July 2017, Shangri-La Hotel, Cairns, Australia                                                             Abstract submission deadline: 31 March. Read on...

Social Boundaries of Work. Methodological and Practical Problems of Research on Work and Employment in Modern Societies                                   27-28 of October, Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Calling for panel proposals for the ‘IRiS International Conference 2017: Global Perspectives on Research Co-production with Communities:  Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies’. The Institute for Research into Super Diversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham and will be hosting its 4th annual conference in partnership with The Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne at the University of Birmingham on 14th and 15th September 2017. Go to the conference website for more details.

15th Annual meeting of the International Society for Quality-of-Life studies
Quality of life: towards a better society
28-30th of September 2017
Innsbruck, Austria                                                                                                                             Submission deadline: February 14, 2017. Read on...

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)                                                                                 July 6- 8, 2017 Copenhagen                                                                                                                                 Sub-theme 69: Organization Studies and Industrial Relations: Overlapping Concerns and New Possibilities The stream seeks to promote the dialogue between labour relations and wider scholarship in organisation studies. They are looking for a broad range of contributions and would like to have some more submissions with a sociological bent. Read on...

Making alcohol and other drug realities                                                     Contemporary Drug Problems                                                                                                                      23-25 August, 2017. Helsinki, Finland                                                                                              Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2017. Read on...

XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                 Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities                            Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. Read on...

The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) invites submissions for the 67th Annual Meeting, to be held August 11-13, 2017, at the Montreal Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, Quebec Canada.                                                                                                                   Submission deadline: January 31, 2017.  Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal                                                           Special Issue Contemporary Boys’ Literacies / Boys’ Literatures                         First draft submissions deadline: February 1, 2017. Read on...

Future-Proofing Higher Education: towards the Citizen Scholar                               Active Learning in Higher Education                                                                                                Submission deadline: 1 February 2017. Read on...

Sport, Feminism, and the Global South                                                                          Sociology of Sport Journal                                                                                           Guest editors: Kim Toffoletti and Catherine Palmer                                                    Submission deadline: March 1, 2017. Read on...

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