Dear ,

It is only one month until the start of TASA 2018. The Local Organising Committee, the Thematic Group conveners and scores of other members have been working hard to ensure the event is a great one. We're told, the full program will be available on the Conference App in a matter of days.

Postgraduate Day is the first official conference event, kicking off at 9am at the Burwood Corporate Centre close to Deakin University. You can check out the sessions and speakers on the conference site here. 

Spotlight 

Sociologist looking for work

You may recall reading about TASA's recently created ‘Sociologists Looking for Work‘ registry, and our aim to regularly spotlight one of the members looking for work. This week, we are spotlighting Jennie Haarsager:

Jennie Haarsager is a former administrator of HIV and family planning programs and a native of the western United States. She holds a BA in Sociology and MA in American Studies. Ms. Haarsager is currently a PhD Candidate in Public Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Sustainability Research Centre.

Ms. Haarsager has experience in unit coordination, teaching (lectures, tutorials, seminars, and online), and has expertise in qualitative research. Ms. Haarsager is interested in a wide range of work opportunities, in teaching and research support. Areas of expertise include Applied Sociology, Community Research, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Health, Immunization, Institutional Ethnography, Medicine, Mental Health and Illness, Professional Groups, Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change, Transgender issues, Youth.

You can contact Ms. Haarsager by emailing jenhaarsager@gmail.com or visiting https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhaars/.

Higher Degree Research (HDR) Completion

Supervisor: Michael Flood                                                                                                            Kenton Bell                                                                                                                                                Men as Allies: A Case Study of the Ambassadors of White Ribbon Australia                        Masters thesis                                                                                                                                          University of Wollongong                                                                                                            [Completion: October 15, 2018]

Employment Opportunities

New: Research Assistant (online) in Governance of Emerging Technologies, IE Center for the Governance of Change, Madrid                                                                      Application deadline: November 11. Read on...

Associate Professor in Sociology & Anthropology                                                University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing.                                                                       Application deadline: November 8. Read on...

Lecturer in Societies, Cultures & Human Services                                                University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing.                                                                          Application deadline: October 30. Read on...

Lecturer in Societies, Cultures & Human Services (Criminology)                University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing.                                                                         Application deadline: October 30. Read on...

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – Integrated Care                                                 University of New South Wales                                                                                              Application deadline: November 4. Read on...

Research Fellow                                                                                                                                La Trobe University                                                                                                                            Application deadline: November 11. Read on...

Research Fellow                                                                                                                            The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Environments & Society                                                                                                Applications close: 4 November. Read on...

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Sociology                                                                           Job ID: 20104. Full time/permanent                                                                                                  The University of Auckland                                                                                                        Applications close: 21 October. Read on...

Scholarship Opportunities

Healthier Tasmania: Assessing the effectiveness of anticipatory care      University of Tasmania                                                                                                          The Anticipatory Care Action Learning Project is a significant, new research collaboration that seeks to understand what forms of anticipatory care are available in Tasmania, the enablers and barriers that exist in accessing them and to contribute to the development of a best practice model suitable for scaled up implementation.                                          Application deadline: October 31. Read on...

PhD scholarship in Social Housing: Pathways out of social housing             RMIT University are seeking highly motivated and qualified applicants for a PhD scholarship to commence in February, 2019. The successful applicant will have, at minimum, an Honours level qualification in social science or related discipline and will have experience in quantitative research methods. Utilising their skills with administrative and survey data, the successful candidate will examine why people leave social housing and what happens to them subsequently.  Fellow member, and winner of the 2017 ECR Best Paper Award, Juliet Watson, will be one of the supervisors.                                                 Application deadline: 26th October. Read on...

The University of Newcastle have a scholarship opportunity on a project, 'Low Carbon Energy Transition'. The successful candidate will contribute to a cross-institutional research project investigating the political dynamics of the low carbon energy transition within the Australian energy industry.                                                                      Application deadline: October 31. Read on...

The Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University have a scholarship opportunity on a project, 'India's Changing Cities and Informal Work'. The project is suitable for candidates with strong interests in informal work, migration and cities.          Application deadline: November 11. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Ramón Spaaij and Jora Broerse (2018). Sport and the Politics of Belonging: The Experiences of Australian and Dutch Somalis in Places of Privilege. In Oke, N., Sonn, C., & Baker, A. (Eds.) Places of Privildge: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Identities, Change and Resistance (pp. 105 - 122). Brill. 

Journal - Articles

Emma Cooke,  Michelle Brady,  Cheryll Alipio &  Kay Cook (2018) Autonomy, Fairness and Active Relationships: Children's Experiences of Well‐being in Childcare. Children & Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12294

Clarke, A. and Parsell, C., 2018. The potential for urban surveillance to help support people who are homeless: Evidence from Cairns, Australia. Urban Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0042098018789057.

Islam, S., Minichiello, V. and Scott, J. (2018) Resilience strategies of HIV-positive patents who  live with children within the family context in Bangladesh. AIDS Care. 

Coomber, R., Scott, J. et al. (2018) The burgeoning recognition and accommodation of the social supply of drugs in international criminal justice systems: An eleven-nation comparative overview. International Journal of Drug Policy.  58, 93-103.

Robertson, Shanthi. (2018) ‘Migrant, interrupted’: The temporalities of ‘staggered’ migration from Asia to Australia. Current Sociology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392118792920

Tomás Cano,  Francisco Perales, & Janeen Baxter (2018) A Matter of Time: Father Involvement and Child Cognitive Outcomes. Journal of Marriage and Family. First published: 25 September 2018.

Tuxen, Nonie and Robertson, Shanthi. (2018) ‘Brokering international education and (re)producing class in Mumbai’.International Migration. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12516

Brent McDonald, Ramón Spaaij & Darko Dukic (2018) Moments of social inclusion: asylum seekers, football and solidarity. Journal Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 

Newman, C.E., Hughes, S., Persson, A., Truong, H.M., Holt, M. (2018) Promoting ‘equitable access’ to PrEP in Australia: accounting for stakeholder perspectives. Published online in AIDS & Behavior on 10 October 2018. Note, for free view-only access, see https://rdcu.be/8Zli

Shana Sabbe,  Lieve Bradt,  Ramón Spaaij & Rudi Roose (2018) Community sport and social cohesion: in search of the practical understandings of community sport practitioners in Flanders. Community Development Journal.

Yolande Strengers, Sarah Pink & Larissa Nicholls (2019) Smart energy futures and social practice imaginaries: Forecasting scenarios for pet care in Australian homes. Energy Research & Social Sciences. 

Haarsager, J. E. (2018). "The Role of Schools of Nursing in Continuing Professional Education Provision." Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal 26(4): 24-25.

Reports

Dina Bowman and Marcus Banks (2018) Hard times Australian households and financial insecurity. Brotherhood of St Laurence.

The Men’s Project & Flood, M, (2018) The Man Box: A Study on Being a Young Man in Australia. Melbourne: Jesuit Social Services. URL:https://jss.org.au/what-we-do/the-mens-project/the-man-box/

Carlisle, E., Fildes, J., Liyanarachchi, D., Perrens, B. and Plummer, J. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth Report: Youth Survey 2017. Mission Australia: Sydney, NSW. Here is a link to the full report (free to access) - report as well as an infographic.  The report also featured on ABC News, SBS , the Guardian , Triple J , and other local news sites including the First Nations Telegraph. 

Guides

Anne Stephens, Ellen D. Lewis, and Shravanti Reddy (2018) Inclusive Systemic Evaluation for Gender equality, Environments and Marginalized voices (ISE4GEMs). United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Please note, this guide is being launched 18 October 2018, 10-11:30am EDT, (online TOMORROW 19 October, 12am – 1.30am AEST / 1am – 2.30am AEDT)

Informed News & Analysis

Mary Lou Rasmussen, Andrew Singleton, Anna Halafoff & Gary D Bouma (16 October, 2018) There’s no argument or support for allowing schools to discriminate against LGBTIQ teachers. The Conversation. 

Flood, M (2018) “Australian study reveals the dangers of ‘toxic masculinity’ to men and those around them.” The Conversation, October 16. URL: https://theconversation.com/australian-study-reveals-the-dangers-of-toxic-masculinity-to-men-and-those-around-them-104694

Lisa Denny, Felicity Picken & Nick Osbaldiston (16 October, 2018) Meet the new seachangers: now it’s younger Australians moving out of the big cities. The Conversation. 

Mary Rasmussen (12 October, 2018) Australian students support expression of sexuality at school: study. SBS NEWS.

Nicholas Hookwway (4 October, 2018) Group think: scholars assess the state of sociology. Times Higher Education. Please note, you will need to register to read the article (if not registered already).  

Keith D. Parry & Jessica Richards (10 October, 2018) The AFLW found instant success, but challenges remain for its long-term sustainability. The Conversation. 

Crystal Abidin (15 October, 2018) With Risky Teen Drama, Facebook Further Blurs the Line Between Real and Fake. Education Week. 

Crystal Abidin (12 October, 2018) The purchase of followers for the revenge of the internet is one of the best places. Girlfriend. 

Online Lectures

Abidin, Crystal. 2018. "быть инфлюенсером: приватность и публичность в Ютубе" (Being an Influencer: privacy and publicity in YouTube), Course on 'Vlogging: The Presentation of Self and Networked Publics', Online School of Internet Research 2018, Russia. October 2018. http://clubforinternet.net/school_18/vloggers/7

Blogs

Ann Game (12 October, 2018) Belonging in Anghiari: Silvia Dressles

Daile Rung (11 October, 2018) Researcher illuminates grey areas of citizenship. Charles Darwin University. 

Deborah Lupton (10 October, 2018) Personal data metaphors and imagery. This Sociological Life.

Podcasts

Nicholas Hookway (12 October, 2018) The 'what do you do' conversation. On Your Afternoon with Lucie Cutting, ABC Hobart. 

Research Centre Newsletters

Janeen Baxter (15 October, 2018) Life Course Centre - October 2018. Life Course Centre.

Websites

Ramon Spaa & Brent McDonald SPORTSOCS: Sociologists airing sport's dirty laundry

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. 

Fellow member Karen Block has been invited to give the following keynote: How can universal and targeted services ensure supportive environments for children and families of refugee background? Early Childhood Education, Families and Communities – EECERA International Conference, Budapest 28-31st August 2018

Recently, fellow member Anna Anderson was invited by Professor Peter Kelly at RMIT University to give a workshop on using Foucault's method of genealogy entitled "Doing Genealogy: Ethos and Method".  The workshop was attended by PhD students and academic staff. Anna travels to Australia on a regular basis, and would be happy to deliver the workshop at other Australian Universities. For participant feedback on the workshop, read on...

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. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Seminars

Professor Barbara Risman (University of Chicago) will be at the University of Melbourne on October 22 to discuss her new book ‘Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure’.                                                            For more details and event registration, read on...

Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism: Critical, Contextual, and Collective Turns                                                                                                                         5 November 2018, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus, 10:30-12:00 
Speaker: Associate Prof Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida). Read on...

Public Lecture

Activist Movements and Social Theory                                                                              The Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture
168 Lonsdale st, Melbourne
Friday, 23rd November 4:30pm                                                                                                      Speakers include fellow member Theresa Petray                                                              Bursuries available for TASA postgraduate members.                                                  For more details, and registration, 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 Proposals - Journal

New: New Editor of Men and Masculinities                                                                        Sage are currently accepting editor applications for a three-year term commencing July, 2019 (this start date is negotiable). The search committee will begin reviewing applications on December 1, 2018. Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Contemporary Issues of Early Childhood Special Issue on the early childhood workforce - Inconvenient truths about Early Childhood Education and Care: Workers' lives matter                                                                                                                  Guest editors include fellow member Yarrow Andrew                                              Abstract submission deadline: October 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, 2018. Read on...

Call for Submissions - Edited Book

The Rise of the Far-Right:Technologies of Recruitment & Mobilization         After decades of existing on the social and political margins, far-right groups and movements are enjoying increasing success and claiming a place in mainstream electoral politics. This call for submissions invites scholars to contribute a chapter to an edited book bringing together research that describes what factors lie behind this rise in the far-right, giving attention to how these groups recruit new members and mobilize action, and their use and involvement with media technologies.                                                            Submission deadline: November 15. Read on...

Symposiums

Sport, Culture and Gender: Where Are We Now?  This event is hosted by the Religion & Society Research Cluster and the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University.                                                                                                        Thursday 8 November 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Parramatta, NSW 2150                                            Keynote Speaker: Fellow TASA member and TASA 2018 Local Organising Committee member Kim Toffoletti, Deakin University:Who is visible in sport and recreation? Thinking through gender and cultural diversity                                                              Registration free but essential. 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...

Real and Digital Experiences: Latin American Migrants in Australia                     1 November, 2018, RMIT University, Melbourne                                                                  Registration deadline: October 22. Read on...

Conferences

Researchers for Asylum Seekers (RAS) Interdisciplinary Conference                    Conference spotlight: Gender, Identity and Persecution                                                 November 15, Melbourne                                                                                                                Abstract submissions deadline: 22nd October. 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...

New thinking on migration starts here                                                                        Metropolis Conference, 29 October – 2 November, Sydney                                              Explore migrant voices in a connected world - a place for advocating social change or platform for cyber racism?                                                                              Keynotes include fellow member Andrew Jakubowicz. Read on...

The future in the past SAANZ – Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand Conference 2018. “The future in the past” is a phrase taken from Ernst Bloch, capturing his attention to the materiality of both past and future, and their interactions, in the present.                                                                                                                              Submission deadline: November 5. 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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