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With the festive season fast approaching, we invite you to share your latest publications with us so that they can be included in this newsletter before the end of the year. The deadline for emailing your publication details (referenced please) is next Friday December 21. Publication notifications received after that date will be included in our first 2019 newsletter. 

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Congratulations

A warm congratulations is extended to following members who were recently awarded  funding by the Australian Research Council:

• Discovery project - Fran Collyer:  Understanding Society: The Role of Sociology and its Social Impact.
• Discovery project - Vaughan Higgins, Melanie Bryant, Marta Hernandez-Jover: Protecting Australia's Food Future: Organisational Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving Shared Responsibility for Agricultural Biosecurity.
• Discovery Project - Laura Tarzia, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Ly Tran, Kelsey Hegarty, Marie Segrave, Cathy Humphries, Adele Murdolo. INVEST: International Students' Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Experiences.
• Discovery Project - Deborah Lupton, & Mike Michael: ‘Living with personal data: Australians’ understandings and practices’. 
• Discovery Project -  Amelia Johns; Jessica Walton; Gilbert Caluya; Anita Harris:  Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World 

Looking for Work Register

Spotlighting sociologists for hire:          Fabian Cannizzo

Fabian Cannizzo is a cultural sociologist working on cultures of labour in the knowledge and creative industries. He has prepared 4 industry/stakeholder reports from research he has conducted and published across sociology, philosophy and higher education journals, and is producing and edited collection on global academia and a special section of the Journal of Sociology.

Fabian’s has research expertise across a range of areas, including applied sociology, consumption and consumerism, culture and cultural policy, economics and economic life, education, gender and sexuality, industrial sociology, knowledge, media, communication, information and public opinion, occupations and professions, political economy, qualitative research, science and technology, social theory, socio-technics, work, and higher education. Fabian is looking for work in both teaching (tutorials, seminars, lectures, marking) and also research assistance (including grant writing and consultancy work).

You can contact Fabian by email, and see a list of publications on his Google Scholar profile.

Post Grad Sub-Committee

Call for New Members

The TASA Postgraduate Portfolio Leader is calling for expressions of interests to join TASA’s Postgraduate Sub-Committee (PGSC) for the 2019-2020 term. This PGSC supports the Postgraduate Portfolio Leader in representing and furthering the interests of TASA’s postgraduate members. The PGSC consists of a maximum of seven members who usually serve a two-year term and meet online approximately three times a year as well as face-to-face at the annual conference.                                                                                                    Expression of interest deadline: Friday December 21. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

New: CSIRO, in collaboration with the University of Queensland, is offering 8 PhD scholarships for social researchers in the field of ‘Responsible Innovation’ for projects starting in the first half of 2019. There are projects on diverse topics, some of which might be of specific interest to the social science/development studies community. Specific topics that might be of interest to you include: new personalised foods and impacts for health; social, legal and ethical implications of the digital revolution in agriculture; and the impact of cultural diversity on the development and use of novel biological systems. But there are many more that might also pick your interest.                    If you, or someone you know is looking for a post graduate research opportunity, this could be for you!. Please visit https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/csiro-uq-ri for further details of projects on offer, and for details of how to apply.                                                 Applications close 31 January, 2019, with a start date scheduled for April. Please contact Kristen.lyons@uq.edu.au for more information.

Two fully-funded, internationally open PhD opportunities at Deakin University, to study human-animal relations as social in urban India – these are part of an ARC Discovery project ‘Animals and urban planning: Indian cities as Zoöpolises’.                                  Application deadline: 31st January 2019. Read on...

Western Sydney University: Data, Technology and Ethics in Adolescent Health Research. This PhD project will explore young people’s views on how their health data is currently collected and applied, as well as their visions for the future of health in a digital world.
Application deadline: 31 December. Read on...

Western Sydney University:  Socio-cultural Perspectives and Possibilities of Adolescent Health in the Digital Age. This PhD project has a focus on the ways in which gender, ethnicity, sexuality, time, and place inform young people’s perceptions of health, health literacy, help-seeking and access to services. 
Application deadline: 31 December. Read on...

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...

Members' Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Sue Malta and Raelene Wilding (2018) Chapter 2: Not So Ubiquitous: Digital Inclusion and Older Adults in Australia. In Ragedda, M. & Mutsvairo, B. (Eds.) Digital Inclusion:
An International Comparative Analysis. Rowman & Littlefield.

Gerard Goggin (2018) Afterword, Why Digital Inclusion Now?  In Ragedda, M. & Mutsvairo, B. (Eds.) Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis​. Rowman & Littlefield.

Erik W. Aslaksen An Engineer’s Approach to the Philosophy of Engineering, Ch. 8 in Philosophy of Engineering, East and West, C. Mitcham (ed.), Springer Nature (2018)

Erik W. Aslaksen Technology, Society, and Survival, Ch. 12 in The future of Engineering: Philosophical Foundations, Ethical Problems and Application Cases, A. Fritsche and S.J. Ochs (eds.), Springer Nature (2018)

Journal - Articles

Kristin Natalier, Kay Cook & (2018) Single Mothers’ Post-Separation Provisioning: Child Support and the Governance of Gender. Sociology. Article first published online: December 10, 2018.

Alan Morris (2018) ‘Communicide’: The destruction of a vibrant public housing community in inner Sydney through a forced displacement. Journal of Sociology. First Published December 7, 2018.

Sarah Callahan & Lucy Nichols (2018) Dragon wings and butterfly wings: implicit gender binarism in early childhood. Taylor & Francis. First Published online: 05 Dec 2018.

Robyn Smith, Ramon Spaaij & Brent McDonald (2018) Migrant Integration and Cultural Capital in the Context of Sport and Physical Activity: a Systematic Review. Journal of International Migration and Integration. 

Cantillon, Zelmarie and Baker, Sarah, 2018, 'DIY Heritage Institutions as Third Places: Caring, Community and Wellbeing Among Volunteers at the Australian Jazz Museum', Leisure Sciences.

Vaughan Higgins & Carol Richards (2018) Framing sustainability: alternative standards schemes for sustainable palm oil and South-South trade, Journal of Rural Studies.

Jones, Paul K. (2018). Insights from the infamous: Recovering the social-theoretical first phase of populism studies. European Journal of Social Theory, online first. 

Keith Heggart, Rick Flowers, Nina Burridge, James Arvanitakis (2018) Refreshing critical pedagogy and citizenship education through the lens of justice and complexity pedagogy. Global Studies of Childhood.

Searle, T. L. , Mulholland, M. (2018). Systems, Self, and Sovereignty: Non-Indigenous Practitioners Negotiate Whiteness in Aboriginal Partnerships. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 9(1) . Retrieved from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol9/iss1/5. DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2018.9.1.5 

Reports

El-Murr, Alissar (2018). Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Refugee Communities: Scoping review of issues and service responses. CFCA Paper No. 50. Melbourne: Australian institute of Family Studies. 

Informed News & Analysis

Sue Malta, Jane Hocking, Meredith Temple-Smith, Christina Bryant and Adrian Bickerstaffe (12 December, 2018) Why is no-one talking about safe sex for the over 60s? Pursuit. 

Jessica Richards &  Keith Parry (7 December, 2018) Australians love their sport, but investing in new venues is another matter. The Conversation. 

Kellie Bousfield & Jacquie Tinkler (6 December, 2018) Student protests show Australian education does get some things right. The Conversation. 

Blogs

Fabian Cannizzo (3 December, 2018) the shifting rhythms of academic work. On Education. 

Fellow member, and previous Executive member, Kirsten Harley, who is living with Motor Neuron Disease, shares with us why she recently chose a tracheostomy AND laryngectomy 'On Deciding to Keep Living with MND: A Triptych'.

Micro-vlog

Micro-vlog series (just 2 minutes!)
Zoei Sutton and Ben Lohmeyer host "2-Minute Truths” - a quick-fire interview with remarkable academics about their research and academic lives.

Week 6 guest star: James Avanitakis -  “Stop worrying about the small stuff and start worrying about the big stuff” You can access the micro-vlog on Zoei & Ben's 2 Minute Truths website.

Podcasts

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 Michael Flood has two keynotes coming up:

1. Flood, M. (2018). Engaging men in the prevention of men’s violence against women: How to get men in the door, inspire and mobilise them, and reduce resistance. Keynote address, Connexions 15th Annual Conference, Central Coast, NSW, November 26.
2. Flood, M. (2018). Mobilising men to build gender justice: Strategies for effective movement-building. Keynote address, STOP Domestic Violence Conference Australia, Gold Coast, December 3-5.

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

Competition for Early Career Researchers

The Universities Australia Pitch It Clever Competition:  This competition is for early career researchers to pitch their research within a 1 - 2 minute video. A selection of Vice Chancellors judge the entries and there are prizes in cash and prestige for the winners (including a People's Choice Award).                                                                                          Submission deadline: January 24, 2019. Read on...

Public Lecture 

Launching of the CRIMP Lab (creative research interventions in method and practice) with public lecture by Felicity Colman who will be present on creative research interventions in method and practice and will launch the CRIMP lab                                         December 19th, 1 - 2pm. RMIT, Melbourne.  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 now open.  Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Nationalism’s Futures                                                                                                        Sociology Special Issue                                                                                                              Deadline for submission of full papers: 10 June 2019. Read on...                                    For any queries regarding this special issue, please contact: 
Bridget Byrne, Helen Holmes, Vanessa May, Shaminder Takhar.

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...

Symposiums

New: Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium 
Monday 28th – Wednesday 30th October 2019                                                                       Hear insights from experts who are working to improve mental health services within rural and remote areas and discover what you can do to provide and advocate for equal mental health care for all Australians                                                                              Submissions deadline: June 28. Read on...

The Ethics of Engagement, Participation and Representation                            TASA Sociology of Youth Thematic Group 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...

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

Political Emotions Conference                                                                              Sociology of Emotions and Effect Thematic Group  conference                                  22 July 2019, Adelaide, Australia                                                                                                  Scholars from any discipline who are thinking about politics and emotions in a social context are invited to send an abstract of 150 words, plus a short biography, to political.emotions@gmail.com by 5pm, Monday 18 February 2019, AEST. Read on...

Education in an Era of Risk - the Role of Educational Research for the Future
ERC: 2 - 3 September 2019, ECER: 3 - 6 September 2019, Universität Hamburg Submissions close: January 31. Read on...

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...

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...

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

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