Dear ,

In case you missed it, here are the Election 2018 results - TASA Executive Committee, November 2018 – November 2020 AND Call for Nominations for Thematic Group Portfolio Leader.

The new positions are as below:

• President: Dan Woodman, University of Melbourne, Elected Unopposed
• Vice President: Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, Western Sydney University, Elected Unopposed
• Secretary: Ashleigh Watson, Griffith University
• Treasurer: Peta Cook, University of Tasmania, Elected Unopposed
• Postgraduate Portfolio Leader: Ben Loymeyer, Flinders University
• Public Engagement Portfolio Leader: Nicholas Hookway, University of Tasmania, Elected Unopposed
• Applied Sociology Portfolio Leader:  Catherine Robinson, Anglicare Tasmania, Elected Unopposed
• Equity & Inclusion Portfolio Leader:  Meredith Nash, University of Tasmania

The TASA Executive wish to thank everyone who nominated, both successful and unsuccessful for their efforts. These elections ensure that TASA remains a robust and democratic organization that can shape the field of sociology in the years ahead.

As mentioned in a previous election announcement, at the close of nominations on Friday August 31st, for the TASA Executive for the two-year term November 2018 – November 2020, one nomination was received for the Thematic Group portfolio but the person withdrew.  As such, we have re-opened the call for nominations.

Signed Candidate and Nomination forms must reach the TASA Office by 5pm AEST next Tuesday September 25, 2018. The Candidate Form should have a 200 word biography/position statement attached.

Please email the signed forms to: admin@tasa.org.au by 5pm AEST next Tuesday September 25, 2018

Regards,

Luke Gahan
TASA Secretary

Social Sciences Week

We hope you had a great Social Sciences Week. Here is an article by Ross Gittins about the Social Sciences. 

TASA 2018

The presenter registration has closed. The Early Bird registration closes soon on October 1st. 

Scholarship Opportunities

New: 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...

New: 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...

Sociologists looking for work

If you are a sociologist looking for work, we invite you to complete the form on TASAweb to be listed in our public registry of sociologists looking for work. We are using Google Docs to manage this registry, so you will need an account with Google to complete the form and to update your information in the future. Please contact Brady Robards (our Multimedia Portfolio Leader)  if you have any questions or concerns.  

Professional Development Workshop for Casual Academics

New: Are you a casual academic staff member working in Victorian universties?                 Would like to learn from senior academics on how to take your career to the next level? The event details are listed below. For more details, read on...

Employment Opportunities

Sessional Teaching in Health Sociology opportunity at UTAS Sydney. Facilitate workshops with health profession students in the second half of second semester 2018. Enquiries to: Dr Kim McLeod, kim.mcleod@utas.edu.au, 03 6324 5045.

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Social Scientists and Evaluation Specialists, ISSR, The University of Queensland

Multiple job opportunities for qualitative and quantitative research social scientists and experts in policy and program evaluation, The Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), The University of Queensland. They are seeking experienced researchers with a strong track record of working with government, industry or not-for-profits on high impact real-world projects. Jobs at Academic Levels C and D. Fixed term with potential for continuing appointment. Application deadline: September 23. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Karen Farquharson, Ramón Spaaij, Sean Gorman, Ruth Jeanes, Dean Lusher & Jonathan Magee (2019). Managing Racism on the Field in Australian Junior Sport. In Essed, P., Farquharson, K., Pillay, K., White, E.J. (Eds.), Relating Worlds of Racism Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness. Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal - Articles

Shanthi Robertson (2018). Migrant, interrupted: The temporalities of ‘staggered’ migration from Asia to Australia. Current Sociology. Article first published online: September 13, 2018.

Informed News & Analysis

Robyn Moore & Meredith Nash (20 September, 2018). ‘Walking into a headwind’ – what it feels like for women building science careers. The Conversation. 

Andrew Singleton, Anna Halafoff, Gary D Bouma, & Mary Lou Rasmussen (18 September, 2018). New research shows Australian teens have complex views on religion and spirituality. The Conversation. 

Mark Chou & Lesley Pruitt (18 September, 2018). Let's give 16-year-olds the right to vote — they're more than ready. ABC News.

Michael Walsh (16 September, 2018 ). Canberra schools buck smartphone ban trend. ABC News. 

Blogs

Anoushka Benbow (15 September, 2018). Inequality, culture and consumption: let them eat luxury, or the rise of masstige. NightGardenia.

Podcasts

Steve Roberts (17 September, 2018). Young Working-Class Men in Transition. New Books - Sociology.

Nicholas Hookway (13 September, 2018). Talkback: distracted parenting in the age of the smart phone. ABC Life Matters.

Videos

Theresa Petray (14 September, 2018). To mark the inaugural Australian Social Sciences Week James Cook University academics invited Year 9 students from around Townsville and North Queensland to come out to the Townsville campus and discuss what a Bill of Rights for Australia might look like.

Zines

Call for submissions: submissions are now open for So Fi Zine edition #4. So Fi is a sociological fiction zine for arts-based research, creative sociology, and art inspired by social science. We accept short stories, poetry, photography, photo essays, cartoons, and other creative works. Edition #4 is inspired by a golden thread that runs through Raewyn Connell’s extensive body of work – ‘critique is inadequate: one needs to show alternatives.’ Submissions close on September 30. See sofizine.com for full submission info. 

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.

Fellow member Joanne Bryant has been promoted to Associate Professor. 

Fellow member Deborah Lupton is moving from the University of Canberra to the University of New South Wales. Deborah will be heading up two research programs at the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre: Critical Digital Health Studies and Living Data. You can read all about Deborah's new appointment here. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

PhD Summer School and One Day Conference

New: Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities
January 2019 in Sydney, Australia
Hosted by the Community Economies Strategic Initiative, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

Masterclass - call for participants

‘Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment: A Critical Feminist Arts/Research Masterclass.’ Run by Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro, Ashleigh Watson and Samantha Trayhurn.                                                                                                                                This masterclass will explore ways of practically extending critical and feminist social research with art – specifically with photography, sociological fiction and zine making. Suitable for Honours, Masters and PhD students, and established social researchers.            Friday November 16, Monash University, Clayton Campus, 2-6pm (afternoon tea included)                                                                                                                                                    This event is free but registration is required. Places are limited. Read on...

Seminars

Welfare to work in UK and Australia: Sanctions, Supports and conditionality  Tue. 25 September 2018, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Prest Theatre, Faculty of Business and Economics, 111 Barry Street, Carlton Victoria                                                                            Join Dr Sharon Wright, University of Glasgow; Dr Elise Klein, University of Melbourne; Dr Danielle Thornton and Dr Dina Bowman, Brotherhood of St Laurence; Owen Bennett, President of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union; and David Tennant, CEO, Shepparton Family Care in a lively discussion about welfare to work and conditionality.                                                                                                                                            This event is free but registration is required. 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

Communicating Good Health & Wellbeing: Knowledge Production, Promotion and Advocacy                                                                                                    Friday, 23 November 2018                                                                                                                    1-Day Medical Sociology Symposium at Deakin University, Burwood Campus
Abstract submission deadline: Sunday September 23. Read on...

10th Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium. 15 -17 October,  Hobart, Tasmania. Read on...

Rural Crime and the Law: from community concerns to institutional action      29-30 November, University of New England, Armidale, NST                                      Keynotes: Professor Russell Hogg, QUT, and Mr Steve Bradshaw, retired Assistant Commissioner NSW Police Force.                                                                                    Submission deadline: October 1. Read on...

Conferences

New: A conference on rural crime, law and practice, and the criminal justice response                                                                                                                                          Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November, 2018, University of New England                                  Abstract submissions & Early-bird registrations close Monday 1st October. Read on...

New: Identity Politics in a Globalized World                                                                        Hong Kong Sociological Association 20th annual conference                                        Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong                                          December 1st, 2018 (Saturday)                                                                                                    Abstract submission deadline: September 24. Read on...

Education, Employment and Retirement: Transitions in risk societies  III International meeting of Industrial Sociology, Sociology of Organizations and Work         26th -27th November 2018 Faculdade de Letras, University of Lisbon                                     Submission deadline: September 30. 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...

DIASPORA CONFERENCE: Diasporas in Action: Working Together for Peace, Development and Humanitarian Response featuring Professor Cindy Horst - Research Director and Research Professor in Migration and Refugee Studies at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).                                                                                                   Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 September, University of Melbourne. Read on...

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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