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As you are hopefully aware, TASA bestows several prestigious Awards with presentations for recipients occurring at our annual Conference Dinner, which, this year, is being hosted by our fellow members from Western Sydney University.  The Awards currently open for nominations include:

1. Distinguished Services to Australian Sociology Award (closes May 31)
2. Outstanding Service to TASA Award (closes May 31)
3. TASA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology (closes June 15)
4. TASA Sociology in Action Award (closes June 15)

5. Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize (closes June 30)

Congratulations

A warm congratulations is extended to fellow member Barbara Barbosa Neves​ who is the 2019 Jacques Leclercq Chair in Digital Technology & Society at the University of Louvain in Belgium. Barbara's achievement is all the more impressive given the honour of being the Jacques Leclercq Chair is usually reserved for Full Professors. 

TASA 2021

Host the 2021 TASA Conference:                              Call for Expressions of Interest

We are seeking expressions of interest for hosting the November 2021 TASA Conference. The annual conference is a key event for sociologists to present their research and network with peers, usually attracting around 500 participants. Hosting the conference is an ideal opportunity for a university, department or other workplace to showcase their achievements, and promote their strengths. Alternatively a collective of sociologists in and outside of the university sector in a particular city or region may wish to use the conference to highlight the benefits of sociology to a broader audience.                          Expressions of Interest deadline: Friday July 12. Read on...

Health Sociology Review

General Call for Papers

New: With a rising impact factor (2017 IF is 1.196), a new editorial team, and more articles from around the globe than ever before, Health Sociology Review (HSR) is a major resource for health sociology researchers, public health researchers, Indigenous scholars, health policy makers and health professionals grappling with the complexities of contemporary health and healthcare.

Incoming editors, Professor Karen Willis and Associate Professor Sarah MacLean together with Associate Editors (Dr Katherine Carroll, Dr Luke Gahan, Dr Kim McLeod, Dr Fernando De Maio and Dr Megan Williams) are committed to publishing the latest research on health, healthcare, wellness and welcome your contribution.

Please submit your article here. If you wish to discuss a possible paper for HSR, please feel free to contact fellow members Karen Willis or Sarah MacLean.

Special Issue 2020 - Call for Expressions of Interest

Health Sociology Review (HSR) is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness and medicine.  Published three times per year, the journal prioritises original research papers. Each year the journal publishes a special issue on a matter of central importance to health sociology and related fields, edited by guest editors.                                            Submission deadline: March 25. Read on...

Doctoral completions

If you, or someone you know, has completed a PhD, professional doctorate or similar degree in recent months we would like to publish the details in Nexus. To submit the details, please complete this form and forward to the editor at nexus@tasa.org.au for inclusion in the March issue of Nexus. 

Looking for Work Register

There are many members of TASA who are looking for work, from sessional teaching through to applied consultancy research. We have created the Looking for Work registry to provide a way for our members who are looking for work to connect with people looking to employ sociologists. We also acknowledge many of our members are employed precariously, and we hope this registry might help in building connections and networks towards more stable employment. The registry of sociologists looking for work can be accessed on TASAweb here. 

Employment Opportunities

Assistant Professor                                                                                                                The Institute of Sociology of the Pontifical Catholic, University of Chile              Application deadline: March 31. Read on...

2020 Fellowship Opportunity

National Library Fellowships are open to researchers from Australia and overseas undertaking advanced research projects. Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

Knowledge-Making in Australian Society: Sociology and its Social Impact.        Sydney University                                                                                                          Application deadline: TOMORROW March 15. Read on...

Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society has a PhD scholarship available: Tech, sex and intimacy: a survey to understand the role of new technologies in Australian’s sexual and intimate lives. They are seeking a person with quantitative skills and interests in gender, technology & sexuality.                                    Application deadline: March 29. Read on...

A four-year doctoral scholarshipis available for an outstanding scholar to work with SHARP Professor,  and fellow member, Deborah Lupton & her team in the new Vitalities Lab, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW, Sydney.                                        Application deadline:  COB 31 March. Read on... 

Multiculturalism, Migration and Youth
Two PhD scholarships, Deakin University                                                                                    Application deadline: May 31. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Abidin, Crystal. 2019. “Victim, Rival, Bully: Influencers’ narrative cultures around cyber-bullying.” Pp. 199-212 in Narratives in Research and Interventions on Cyberbullying among Young People, edited by Heidi Vandebosch and Lelia Green. Springer.

Abidin, Crystal. 2018. “Young people and digital grief etiquette.” Pp. 160-174 in A Networked Self: Birth, Life, Death, edited by Zizi Papacharissi. London and New York: Routledge

Bryan S Turner (2019) A Nineteen-Century Turning Point: Nietzsche, Weber, Fraud & Mill. Pp. 235-248 in Regimes of Happiness: Comparative and Historical Studies, edited by Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Joanna Tice Jen and Bryan S. Turner. Anthem Press.

Book Review

Yinghua Yu (2019). Book Review: Sonya Michel and Ito Peng (eds), Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care: A Multi-scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim. Journal of Sociology. 

Journal Articles

Nicole Pepperell (2018) "Beyond Reification: Reclaiming Marx’s Concept of the Fetish Character of the Commodity", Contradictions: a Journal for Critical Thought, vol. 2.

Ruby Grant, Kim Beasy & Bianca Coleman (2019) Homonormativity and celebrating diversity: Australian school staff involvement in gay-straight alliances, International Journal of Inclusive Education, DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2019.1592249

Report

Johnson, G., McCallum, S. & Watson, J. (2019). Who stays, who leaves and why? Occupancy Patterns at Unison Housing between 2014-2016, Research Report No. 2, Unison Housing Research Lab, RMIT University.

Blogs

Ashleigh Watson (14 March, 2019) Creative Sociology and So Fi Zine

Gavin Smith (4 March, 2019) Red-bellied black snake an unwanted soccer recruit during Canberra’s busy snake season. RiotAct.

Podcast

Nicholas Hookway ( 8 February, 2019) Why are we decluttering like never before? ABC Radio, Hobart.

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

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

Zines

So Fi Zine is a sociological fiction zine for arts-based research, creative sociology, and art inspired by social science. It publishes short stories, poetry, photography, photo essays, cartoons, and other creative works. Edition #5 will be published in June 2019. Submission deadline: April 15. For full details, see sofizine.com

Workshop

Re/imagining Personal Data                                                                                     University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1 October 2019                                                                                                                              Registration and lunch are free, but places are strictly limited. Please contact Deborah Lupton as soon as possible with an email noting that you’d like to register to secure your place. Read on...

Seminar

Trust, Young People and Digital Media                                                                        4th Annual Meeting of the Young Creative Connected (YCC) Research Network                      30 September to 1 October, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland  There is no fee to participate in this seminar, and lunches will be provided. There are a limited number of registrations though. If you are interested in attending, please contact Michael Dezuanni. 

Social Sciences Week - Run an Event

Social Sciences Week is an opportunity for social scientists to engage non-academic audiences with cutting edge social science research, to showcase the diversity and relevance of social science. It will include interactive community and school-based events, bringing the social sciences to life, particularly for the next generation of university students, social scientists and citizens. We encourage you to plan an event/s for Social Sciences Week this year; 9 - 15 September. Please note, the final date to register an event to be part of Social Sciences Week is Thursday, 1 August 2019.

Funding Opportunity

Funding of up to $7,000 for humanities sector women available. Women & Leadership Australia is administering an initiative to support the development of female leaders across Australia’s humanities sector.                                                                      Expression of Interest deadline extended: March 22. Read on...

Call for Chapters 

Social theory, digital education and the Global South: Critical perspectives        The book aims to explore the interplay between digital media practices and education (in primary, secondary, further, higher, and adult and community education, as well as informal education) in the context of the Global South.                                                          Submission deadline: June 30. Read on... 

Call for Papers - Journals

New: 2019 Call for Papers of the official journal of the 
Portuguese Sociological Association, Journal SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE. This Call for Papers is continuously open. Publications aiming to be
considered for the remainder of 2019 should follow the schedule - 2nd Issue: April 30th 2019 & 3rd Issue: August 31st 2019. Read on...

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.

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...

Public Lecture

New: David Lyon: Surveillance Culture, Surveillance Capitalism and Data Politics                                                                                                                                                     26 March, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm AEDT, Deakin University, Burwood                                        For more details, and to register, read on...

Symposiums

New: Digital Mega-Studies of the Future. A multi-disciplinary Symposium  that will bring together leaders from across the research, digital, consumer, legal and policy spheres, to identify the unique characteristics of these studies from different perspectives and forecast future opportunities and challenges for digital mega-studies.
University of Melbourne on 2 April.                                                                                                For full details and the registration link, please Read on...

Religion and Race/ialisation in Australia                                                                    Friday, 26 April 2019: 10.30am – 4.00 pm, Western Sydney University                                    Speakers: Professor FethiMansouri (Deakin University), Professor Kevin Dunn (Western Sydney University), Associate Professor Farida Fozdar (University of Western Australia), Dr Jennifer Cheng (Western Sydney University)                                              Registration: Limited free registration, please RSVP to rosemary.hancock@nd.edu.au

Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity and Migration                                                     2-3 of August, Parramatta City Campus, Western Sydney University                                      Submission deadline: April 10. Read on...

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...

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: 22nd March. Read on...

Conferences

17th Polish Sociological Congress                                                                                           11-14 September, Wrocław                                                                                                                    Me, Us, Them? Subjectivity, Identity, Belonging                                                    Registration & submission deadline: TOMORROW March 15. Read on...

Note: There is a special English-speaking session on education, social inequality, and everything in between, open to both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Here is a link to an invitation to TASA members. 

Youth Studies and the Challenges of Late Capitalism in a Globalised World       Journal of Youth Studies Conference                                                                                              December 2nd-4th 2019, University of Newcastle, Australia Read on...

The Australian Social Policy Conference                                                                               9 - 11 September, UNSW, Sydney                                                                                              Submission deadline: 29 April. Read on...

International Digital Divide Conference                                                                            22-24 May 2019, Washington, DC USA                                                                                Submission deadline: 18 March 2019 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Time. Read on...

Recalibrating Diasporas: Asia Pacific and the Spaces Beyond                                27-28 June, Murdoch University, Perth                                                                                  Submission deadline: March 25. Read on...

Rural sustainability in the urban century                                                                          XV World Congress of Rural Sociology, 8-12 July 2020, Cairns, Australia                        Session proposals deadline: April 26. Read on...

Data Futures  Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)                                              University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
30 September, 9 am – 5 pm, followed by drinks and the launch of the SAM Media Futures Lab. Read on...

2020 ISA Forum of Sociology                                                                                            Research Committee 22: Sociology of Religion                                                                    Call for Session Proposals                                                                                                    "Challenges of the 21st Century for Sociology of Religion"                                                          Proposal deadline: TOMORROW March 15. Read on...

Crime, Justice and Social Democracy                                                                                 15 - 17 July, Queensland                                                                                                                  Submission deadline: March 31. Read on...

SAVE THE DATE   SAANZ Conference 2019 - Sociology for Everyone.                  University of Auckland, 3-6 December 

Accessing Online Materials

From March last year, the list of available Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals jumped from 36 to 91 peer-reviewed journals encompassing over 63,000 articles.

To access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, please click here for instructions, if needed.

Gift Memberships

Gift memberships are available with TASA.  If you would like to purchase a gift membership, please email the following details through to the TASA Office:

1. First name of gift recipient;
2. email address of gift recipient;
3. the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
4. the cost of the membership; and
5. who the Membership Invoice should be made out to;

Upon receiving the above details, TASA will email the recipient with full details on how they can take up the gift membership.  You can view an example of that email in both Word (39kb) and Pdf (159kb) formats. You will receive an invoice, via email, after the recipient completes the online membership form.

Newsletter Submissions

We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced) for the next newsletter, to the TASA Office. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning.

To ensure your publications listed in this newsletter are referenced correctly by third party users, it would be greatly appreciated if you could email your publications to TASA's Office in a referenced format. 

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