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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

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...

Call for Papers

Special Edition of the Journal of Sociology 2019: “Inequalities in the ‘Gig Economy’ era: gender and generational challenges”. Abstracts due: April 8. Read on...

Congratulations

Warm congratulations are extended to fellow members Michelle Peterie and Allegra Schermuly who were recently awarded a PhD in sociology:

Peterie, M. 2018, The Trauma Machine: Volunteer Experiences in Australian Immigration Detention Facilities, PhD thesis, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney.
Schermuly, A. C. 2018 Community Perceptions of Victoria Police: Implications for Legitimacy, Satisfaction and Cooperation, PhD thesis, School of Social Sciences, Monash University

Employment Opportunity

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Human Services

A full-time, continuing, position is available at The University of Canterbury, New Zealand in the School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, College of Arts. They are looking for a focussed, research active academic proficient in teaching and pedagogical practice. The ability to foster collegiality by developing links with other College academic units and research centres (including our Social Work programme), is highly desirable; as is the initiative to integrate technology into teaching, and the passion to engage and encourage students. Preference may be given to applicants with a PhD in human services, public sociology, development studies, criminal justice, or a similar critical social science discipline. Application deadline: March 11. Read on...

2018 Awards

Stephen Crook Memorial Prize - Closes April 30. Read on...
Raewyn Connell Prize - Closes 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.

Members' Publications

Berents, Helen. 2018. “Right(s) from the ground up: Internal displacement, the urban periphery and belonging to the city”. The Politics of Identity: Place, Space and Discourse. eds. Chris. Agius and Dean. Keep. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 141-157.

This edited collection will be of particular interest to students of international relations theory, migration studies, gender and sexuality, post-colonialism and policy-making at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Read on...

Book Reviews

Peta Cook, 'Book Review: Kate O’Loughlin, Collette Browning and Hal Kendig (eds), Ageing in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities'. Journal of Sociology

Journal - Articles

Barbara Barbosa Neves , Jaime R. S. Fonseca , Fausto Amaro , Adriano Pasqualotti (2018). Social capital and Internet use in an age-comparative perspective with a focus on later life. PLOS ONE

Duncan Shrewsbury, Lise Mogensen, Wendy Hu (2018). Problematizing medical students with disabilities: A critical policy analysis. MedEdPublish

Pruitt Lesley, Berents Helen, & Munro Gayle. 2018. “Gender and Age in the Construction of Male Youth in the European ‘Migration Crisis”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 43 (3): 687-709

Post-Publication Review

Fellow member Lise Mogensen took part in a critical analysis of medical education policies in Australia and the United Kingdom with a social constructionist angle.

This analysis of policies and standards for undergraduate medical education aims to understand how disability in medical students is represented and problematized, and the educational and wider social implications of such representations.

The article is freely available via the link below in a Post-Publication Peer Review journal called MedED Publish and was submitted for the journal’s current themed issue ‘Diversity in Medical Education’. Post-publication peer review is not yet common practice, but is conducted as a constructive discussion, the aim of which is to enhance understanding of the subject and refine future work. https://www.mededpublish.org/manuscripts/1463

Lise welcomes comments and ideas: L.Mogensen@westernsydney.edu.au.

Informed News & Analysis

Ben Wadham, 'Hazing and sexual violence in Australian universities: we need to address men’s cultures, The Conversation

Podcasts

Kim Toffoletti appeared on ABC radio/podcast The Ticket on Sunday 25 February, taking about findings from her research with Holly Thorpe on sportswomen and branded identity construction on social media (from 33mins onwards).

Dan Woodman, 'Adolescence Today - It Goes On and On .. ' ABC Radio, Overnights

Blogs

Ashleigh Watson, 'Modern Methodologies: Developments in Doing Sociological Research'

Matthew Barca, 'Understanding the 'Social' in Social Anxiety'

Videos

Christy Newman, 'SEX(UALITY) LECTURE - Queer families: Documenting stories of adversity, diversity and belonging'

Meredith Nash, 'What is the impact of #metoo at the 2018 Oscars?'

James Arvanitakis, 'PhD Final Stages - Taking Care of Yourself'

Zines

Ashleigh Watson, 'So Fi zine is currently accepting submissions for Edition #3.'

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.

Promotions

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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...

Other Events, News & Opportunities

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: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/campaigns/socsci-sport-leisure/toffoletti-francombe-webb-and-thorpe-on-new-femininities

Call for Papers

Performing the University (working title): An anthology about the concept of the university as performance

Volume Editors: James Arvanitakis (Western Sydney University), Peter Copeman (University of Canberra) & Amanda Burrell (Western Sydney University) Universities are cultural entities, fashioned, refashioned and contextualised in specific social and historical circumstances, in elaborate and protracted processes. As such, they are constituted by behaviours that are learned, rehearsed, presented and re-presented over time – as a series of performances. Abstract submission deadline: April 3. 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 on Friday May 4. The full list of speakers for the year can be viewed here.

Conferences

New: International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe 16-19th of November, Chengdu, China.

ubmission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Power & Governance: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences Tampere, Finland, 27–29 August Submission deadline: March 30. Read on...

‘Social boundaries of work’. Organized by the Sociology of Work Section of the Polish Sociological Association 25th-26th, Gdansk, Poland Submission deadline: May 1. Read on...

European Sociological Association Research Network 29 Social Theory Mid-term Conference Refigurations of Society, Sociological Perspectives on Modernity in Transition September 5-6, Berlin, Germany Submission deadline: April 7. Read on...

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