Dear ,

Great news, the local organising committee for TASA 2019 has EXTENDED the submission deadline, for abstracts and papers, by one week to Monday June 3rd. The submission deadline for conference scholarships, see below, has also been extended to June 3rd.   

• Conference Scholarship for TASA Members with Disabilities
• Conference Scholarship for Sociology in Action
• TASA Precarious Work Scholarship Fund
• Postgraduate Conference Scholarship
• Carer’s Travel Bursary
• Jerzy Zubrzycki Postgraduate Conference Scholarship

TASA 2019 Awards

The Awards currently open for nominations are:

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)

Journal of Sociology

2021 Special Issue - call for guest editors

Interested in being a guest editor of a 20121 special issue of TASA's Journal of Sociology?  Please submit expressions of interest of no more than 3000 words in length to Kate Huppatz and Steven Matthewman by Monday 24th June, 2019.  Read on...

Health Sociology Review

2021 Special Issue - call for papers

Sex, Health & Technology Special Issue                                                                             The Role of Bio-medical, Bio-mechanical, and Bio-digital Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Intimacy.                                                                                                                      Full papers due: January 17th 2020. Read on... 

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.    Expressions of Interest deadline: Friday July 12. Read on...

Employment Opportunities

New: Sessional Teaching in Health Sociology                                                                      UTAS Sydney. Facilitate workshops with health profession students in second semester 2019. Please forward EOI and CV to: Dr Kim McLeod, 03 6324 5045.

New: Head of School, Social Sciences                                                                                    University of Tasmania, Hobart                                                                                                Application deadline: June 3. Read on...

New: Lecturer in Societies, Cultures & Human Services (Criminology)                  Newcastle University                                                                                                                     Reference ID: #3762                                                                                                                        Application deadline: 04 June. Read on...

New: DECRA Track Research Fellow                                                                                        Deakin University, Burwood                                                                                                  Application deadline: June 16. Read on...

Lecturer, Gender and Sexuality Studies                                                                      Deakin University                                                                                                                Location: Geelong - City, Geelong - Waurn Ponds, Melbourne - Burwood                Application deadline: TODAY 23 May. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

New: PhD Scholarship in Sociology - Social Media & Employment              Monash University, Clayton                                                                                                                It is important that you contact Brady Robards prior to submission of the EOI to discuss the project.                                                                                                                                          Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

There are 2 PhD scholarships on offer (1 based in Sydney and 1 in Perth) as part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project: The African Diaspora and Pentecostalism in Australia: New Perspectives on Materiality, Media and Religion:

1. Religion and Society Research Centre, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Sydney
2. School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth

Application deadline: June 30. Read on...

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

Looking to employ a sociologist?

Our Looking for Work registry is there to help sociologists looking for work but it is also there to assist those looking to employ a sociologist. The registry can be accessed on TASAweb here. 

Members' Publications

Journal Articles

Pienaar, K. Petersen, A. & Bowman, D. (2019). Matters of fact and politics: Generating expectations of cancer screening. Social Science & Medicine, early online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.020

Bridges, D., and Wadham, B. (2019). Gender under fire: portrayals of military women in the Australian print media. Feminist Media Studies. doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1592208

Jenkins, S., Bamberry, L., Bridges, D. & Krivokapic-skoko, B. (2019). Skills for women tradies in regional Australia: A global future. International Journal of Training Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/14480220.2018.1576329

Working Papers

BERKA, A., MACARTHUR, J., MATTHEWMAN, S., POLETTI, S., and BARGH, M. (2018) ‘Policy Strategies for Inclusive Renewable Energy in Aotearoa (New Zealand)’, Policy Commons Blog, Public Policy Institute Te Whare Marea Tātari Kaupapa, University of Auckland, December 6, https://www.policycommons.ac.nz/2018/12/06/policy-strategies-for-inclusive-renewable-energy-in-aotearoa-new-zealand/  

Informed News & Analysis

Sarah Wendt, Kate Seymour & Kristin Natalier (May 16, 2019) An innovative way to counter domestic violence: provide housing for abusers. The Conversation. 

Jacqueline Laughland-Booy, Zareh Ghazarian & Zlatko Skrbis (May 16, 2019) Young Australians don’t trust politicians. Here’s one reason why. The Conversation. 

MATTHEWMAN, S. (2019) ‘Shedding Christchurch’s “Territorial stigma”’, Newsroom, May 16: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/05/16/587055/why-the-crusaders-should-change-their-name

Featured in GORMAN, P. (2019) ‘NZ's International Reputation will not be Tarnished by Christchurch Tragedy - Expert’, The Christchurch Press, March 22, https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/111476145/nzs-international-reputation-will-not-be-tarnished-by-christchurch-tragedy--expert  

MATTHEWMAN, S. (2019) ‘Facebook Ban 'Won’t Stop White Supremacy' - Professor’, Te Ao Māori News, Māori Television, March 28, https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/facebook-ban-wont-stop-white-supremacy-professor

Blogs

Ann Game (May 18, 2019) A Day of Sun. Living in Relation. 

Christopher Mayes (May 16, 2019) Eating the Fruits of Settler-Colonial Violence. Colloquium

UEKUSA, S., and MATTHEWMAN, S. (2019) ‘Vulnerable or Resilient? Vulnerable and Resilient! A Study of Two Disasters’, IOM: UN Migration: Migrants In Countries In Crisis, Geneva, April 11, https://micicinitiative.iom.int/blog/vulnerable-or-resilient-vulnerable-and-resilient-study-two-disasters

Sarah Oxford (May 2, 2019) An Expert Interview with Megan Chawansky. SportsSoc. 

Podcasts

Nicholas Hookway (May 15, 2019 ) Should screen time be limited for children? ABC Radio, Hobart. 

Steve Matthewman: Quoted in TODD, K. (2019) ‘Zero-tolerance of Hatred Doesn't Work - Life After Hate Group’, Morning Report, Radio New Zealand, 29 April, available: https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018692705/zero-tolerance-of-hatred-doesn-t-work-life-after-hate-group

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. 

Social Sciences Week (SSW)

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.

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Book Launch

New: Sydney Health Ethics (USYD) is hosting a launch for Christopher Mayes’s book: Unsettling Food Politics: Agriculture, Dispossession and Sovereignty in Australia  Friday 31st May 5.00pm-6.30pm , University of Sydney (Medical Foundation Building Auditorium). Jo Faulkner (co-editor of Continental Philosophy in Austral-asia series & Macquarie University), Angus Dawson (Sydney Health Ethics, USYD), and Alana Mann (Sydney Environment Institute, USYD) will help launch the book and speak on its implications for food security/sovereingty, public health ethics, and continental philosophy in settler-colonial Australia.                                                                                        For registration and more details read on...

Call for Participants

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) and the Regional Universities Network (RUN) is conducting a joint study on the factors and inequalities that influence students’ non-completions in Australian regional universities (CQUniversity, Southern Cross University, Federation University Australia, University of New England, University of Southern Queensland, and University of the Sunshine Coast). These factors might be positive or negative. E.g., a student finding a job/moving away or leaving due to financial difficulties.

CAPA’s Research Officer, & TASA member, Dr Lara McKenzie (research@capa.edu.au) is seeking participants for approximately 1 hour-long interviews or focus groups throughout May. Read on...

Do you hold a PhD in Sociology from a US institution and work outside a traditional academic appointment? Or do you know people who fit these criteria?
With Dr. Melissa Scardaville (American Institutes for Research), I am conducting a study, funded by the ASA's Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, to better understand:

1. the rationale, choices, and strategies of PhD-trained sociologists navigating careers outside academia,
2. the practices non-academic sociologists use to incorporate insights from the discipline into their professional practice, and
3. more effective ways of training sociologists for work outside academia.

If you are a PhD-trained sociologist who received your doctoral degree from a sociology program in the United States (though you may live in any country now) and you work outside a traditional academic appointment, we invite you to participate in an online survey. The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete, and all respondents will be entered into a drawing to win one of eight $100 gift cards. If you are interested, please go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PostPhdSoc to fill it out.

Public Lecture 

The Good University: What Universities actually do and why it’s time for radical change                                                                                                                                      A Public Lecture by Professor Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney)                                  May 31, 6pm - 9pm, ACST, University of South Australia, City West campus, Adelaide Registration free but essential. Read on... 

Creativity and methodological innovation in the sociology of familial and intimate relationships

Families and Relationships Thematic Group Workshop                                    Western Sydney University, Paramatta city campus, Sydney, 29th November, 2019.          This one day meeting will bring together researchers at all stages of their career who are seeking to forge responsive and creative methods for investigating familial and intimate relationships.                                                                                                                               Keynote presenters

• Dr Quah Ee Ling Sharon
• Dr Son Vivienne
• Dr Ashleigh Watson

Submission deadline: August 2. Read on...

Symposium & Postgraduate Workshop

Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: Classificatory Logic and Systems of Governance                                                                                                                                       18-19th July,Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus, Sydney, Australia        This symposium examines neoliberal systems of governance and its daily practices of managing, regulating and subordinating individuals, peoples and communities.        Abstract submission deadline: TOMORROW 24 May. Read on...   

Post Grad Workshop                                                                                                Wednesday, 17 July                                                                                                                   Chris Grover , University of Lancaster, will work with post grads to develop their papers in preparation for the symposium alongside exploring core issues in relation to their HDR project.                                                                                                                                                  Up to 3 travel reimbursements are available valued to a total of $400.00 per applicant. Please submit your request at time of submitting your HDR / symposium abstract. Read on... (note, this is the same link as above). 

These are free events but places are limited. 

Call for Applications/Nominations as Scientific Director of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law

The International Institute for the Sociology of Law, IISL, Onati, is issuing a call through the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association for nominations for the position of Scientific Director of IISL.                  Nomination deadline: July 1, 2019. Read on...

Awards

New: The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research                                            Academy of Social Sciences in Australia                                                                                Submission deadline: July 31. Read on...

2019 CHASS AUSTRALIA PRIZES                                                                                        The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sector, including academics, researchers, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students.              There are four different prize categories available and self nominations are welcome.                                                                                                                                  Submission deadline: June 21. Read on...

Workshops

New: Dark Social Spaces                                                                                                                  Keynote: Robert W. Gehl, Monday, 7 October 2-4pm                                                              Workshop: Tuesday, 8 October, 2-4pm                                                                                          Deakin Downtown, Melbourne                                                                                                  Submission deadline: July 17. Read on...

Embodied methodologies for researching wellbeing                           Tuesday 13 August, 9am - 4pm                                                                                                            Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Parklands Drive (venue TBC)                                   
This one-day workshop is for PhD candidates, ECRs and others interested in exploring embodied and creative methods for wellbeing.
This is a fully catered event and is free to attend.                                                    Submission deadline: June 14.Read on...

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...

Seminars

New: Being-With and Being-For Animals:The Status and Role of Method in Contemporary Sociological Animal Studies                                                                          Monday July 8th, Australian National University                                                                      Submission deadline extended: June 3. Read on...

New: S@M-MMIC Seminar - Approaches to Death, Funeral Rites and Memorialisation in Contemporary Australia: Changes and Continuities            Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett & Wilfred Wang (Monash University)                                6 June, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Monash University, Clayton. Read on...

New:  ‘Mobs and Wogs’: Being Indigenous with Southern European Migrant Heritage                                                                                                                                      Deakin University’s next ‘First Fridays’ Gender and Sexuality Studies                                    4pm on 7 June at Deakin Downtown (at 727 Collins St, near Southern Cross Station).  Read on...

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. 

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

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.

Symposiums

New: Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium 
28 – 30 October, Adelaide                                                                                                    Submission deadline: June 23. Read on...

2019 Workplace Mental Health Symposium                                                                       2 – 3 September, Brisbane                                                                                                        Submission deadline: May 31. Read on...

Being-With and Being-For Animals: The Status and Role of Method in Contemporary Sociological Animal Studies                                                              Monday July 8th, Australian National University                                                                            This symposium, jointly hosted by TASA and the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, will focus on examining the ways in which animals are now coming to be sensed, experienced, known and re/presented in contemporary sociological research.      Submission deadline: May 31st. 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...

Conferences

TASA 2019 - Diversity & Urban Growth                                                               Keynote Speakers: Maggie Walter, Deborah Stevenson and Rob Stones                      Western Sydney University, Sydney                                                                                   Submission deadline: May 27. Read on...

New: After Liberalism? Populism and the Future of Democracy                               20-22 November, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne                                                              Submission deadline: July 5. Read on...

Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Strengthening Science and Collaboration                                                                                                                                  The 2020 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference                                             June 25-27, 2020, New York Hilton Midtown in New York City.                                   Submissions open in July and close November 1, 2019. Read on... 

Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality                                                                                                                                  IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 14- 18 July 2020                                    Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Contested Identities: Critical Conceptualisations of the Human                          The South African Society for Critical Theory (SASCT)                                                        Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa                         22- 23 November                                                                                                                        Submission deadline: September 7. Read on...

Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals        Massey University, Wellington New Zealand, December 10-11                                        Submission deadline: August 30. Read on...

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                                                  Submission deadline: June 28. 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...

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

TASA Documents and Policies

You can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures & TASA's History, via TASAweb here. 

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, & subsequently on TASAweb, 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. 

If you have missed a newsletter or you would like to look back on any of them, you can view them here.

Links to content in this newsletter do not imply any official endorsement by The Australian Sociological Association or the opinions, ideas or information contained therein, nor guarantee the validity, completeness or utility of the information provided. Reference herein to any products, services, processes, hypertext links to third parties or other information does not necessarily constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation.