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In case you haven't heard, Radio National has been hosting a 4-part podcast series on class this week. Several TASA members have taken part in this series. To access the podcasts, click here.  

Employment Opportunities

Postdoctoral Fellow

Australian National University, Canberra                                                                    The position will support an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant exploring “Lactation After Loss: Breastmilk suppression , expression and donation in contemporary motherhood and health care delivery” held by Dr Katherine Carroll and Professor Catherine Waldby in the School of Sociology and the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU and will be located in the School of Sociology.                                                                  Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Fellow 

Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Indooroopilly      Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course                                                                                                        Applicants should possess PhD (or close to completion) in relevant field (e.g. sociology, demography, economics, psychology, social statistics or a related area). You will have research experience across one or more of the following areas:  family dynamics, life course studies, gender inequality, social  disadvantage/inequality. Ideal applicants will have demonstrated expert knowledge on empirical research methods.                    Application deadline: April 25. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

Medical Cannabis

Applications for a University of Queensland PhD Scholarship ($27,082 per annum) on medicinal cannabis are now open. The successful applicant will be supervised by Health Sociologist Dr Rebecca Olson, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, as they complete a qualitative study into palliative care patients’ perceptions of medical cannabis as part of an NHMRC study on medicinal cannabis in patients with advanced cancer. Experience in conducting qualitative research and a background in the social sciences and health (e.g., health sociology, medical anthropology, criminology, critical public health) are desired. Please contact Rebecca Olson for further information: r.olson@uq.edu.au .

Interfaith Movement in Australia

Applications for a University of Tasmania PhD Scholarship on the Interfaith Movement in Australia are now open. This project is one part of a larger ARC Discovery project on religious diversity in Australia led by Douglas Ezzy (University of Tasmania), Gary Bouma (Monash University), Greg Barton and Anna Halafoff (both from Deakin University). The PhD project involves a study of the interfaith movement in Australia, focusing on evaluating their impact on responses to religious diversity. The project involves research with leaders and activists in the Australian interfaith movement about the benefits of and challenges faced in their activities and their experience of liaising with state actors, including police and the media. The PhD is at the University of Tasmania and will be supervised by Professor Douglas Ezzy and Dr Anna Halafoff. Read on...

TASA 2018

Call for plenary participants

Doing research on the academy, on academic precarity and/or changes in academic work? Fran Collyer is organising a plenary on these issues for the next annual TASA conference, and would be pleased to hear from you. Please do not concern yourself with funding for attending the conference at this stage. Contact Fran.Collyer@sydney.edu.au

Posters

If you would like to present at TASA 2018, and you are not an Honours student or above, you are invited to submit a poster presentation. More details about this will be available soon.

Health Sociology Review

Call for New Editorial Team

Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal Health Sociology Review for the four-year term 2019–2022. Transition arrangements will begin in 2018, although the content for the first issue of 2019 will be finalised by the out-going editors. Submissions due: June 29. Read on...

Journal of Sociology

Call for Submissions

Special Edition 2020: The Journal of Sociology is an international journal published four times a year by Sage. Each year the Editors invite expressions of interest from the international community of sociological scholars in guest editing a Special Edition of the Journal. Special Editions may address any sociological theme which is likely to be of interest to the Journal readership.                                                                Expressions of Interests due: July 9. Read on...

Call for Papers

Special Edition of the Journal of Sociology 2019: “Inequalities in the ‘Gig Economy’ era: gender and generational challenges”.                         Abstracts due: April 8. Read on... 

Content Alerts

For instructions on how to set up the Table of Contents email alerts for the Journal of Sociology, please right click here and open them up in a new tab.

2018 Awards

• Stephen Crook Memorial Prize - Closes April 30.  Read on...
• Raewyn Connell Prize - Closes April 30. Read on...
• Outstanding Service to TASA - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Sociology in Action - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize - Closes June 30. Read on...

For details, please go to the Social Sciences Week website. 

TASA members attending ISA 2018 Toronto

Our list of TASA members going to Toronto continues to grow. As mentioned in previous newsletters, TASA will be having a stand at the event (#30) to promote our ISA 2022 Melbourne event. If you are not on the list below, and you are going to Toronto, please email the TASA Office and we'll include you in next week's newsletter.

Book Chapters

Rob Watts (2018). Theorising Student Protest, Liberalism and the Problem of Legitimacy in Governing Youth Politics in the Age of Surveillance. eds. Maria Grasso and Judith Bessant. Routledge. 

Berents, Helen. 2018. “Right(s) from the ground up: Internal displacement, the urban periphery and belonging to the city”. The Politics of Identity: Place, Space and Discourse. eds. Chris. Agius and Dean. Keep. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 141-157.

Journal - Articles

Xianbi Huang, Mark Western, YanjieBian, Yaojun Li, Rochelle Côté, & Yangtao Huang (2018). Social Networks and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia: New Evidence from a National Survey. Sociology. 

Graham, T. (2018). Platforms and hyper-choice on the World Wide Web. Big Data & Society. Online first at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951718765878 

Alan Petersen (2018). Capitalising on ageing anxieties: Promissory discourse and the creation of an ‘anti-ageing treatment’ market. Journal of Sociology. Online first: March 30, 2018. 

Informed News and Analysis

Melissa Phillips & colleague, 'It’s Time to Stop Compartmentalizing Refugees and Migrants'. Refugees Deeply.

David Rowe, 'Can the Commonwealth Games change perceptions of the Gold Coast?' The Conversation.

Blogs

Fabian Cannizzo, 'The Irrational Pace of Craft-Time'. The Sociological Review.

Jordan McKenzie, 'Sociological happiness: Why the dominant discourse needs to change'

Benjamin Pinkard,'The Complexities of Researching Gender Diverse Youth'

Podcasts

Mark Western, 'Class Act part one: Where we sit?' ABC Radio National, Big Ideas

Val Colic-Peisker & Dan Woodman, 'Class Act part two: How we got here?'ABC Radio National, Big Ideas

Jenny Chesters, Mark Western & Dan Woodman,'Class Act part three: The dark hear.'ABC Radio National, Big Ideas

Nicholas Hookway, 'Is Australia a nation of chocoholics?' ABC Radio Hobart, On Your Afternoon with Lucie Cutting

Zines

Ashleigh Watson, 'So Fi zine is currently accepting submissions for Edition #3.' Submit by April 15.

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. 

Yamini Narayanan has been invited to speak at the Animaladies II Conference at the University of Wollongong, December 13-14. Australasian Animal Studies Association

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.

Thematic Groups

Re-imagining economic security & wellbeing in an age of precarity

Workshop for TASA members hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, Employment and Social Movements’ Thematic Groups    Melbourne, Friday 23 November                                                                                        Abstract submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

International Sociological Association

Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) 

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the globaldatabase of sociologists.

GMSSI aims to identify, connect, and enable global collaborations in sociology, and support sociologists who encounter multiple barriers, economic and political, which impede participation in global exchanges.

GMSSI aims to increase the visibility of sociologists and their knowledge production and also be an important resource for sustained interaction with the media on a range of issues.

Your participation is important to the success of GMSSI in building this global sociological community.

To start: Go to https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/gmssi/callforparticipants.cgi where ISA briefly explain what the site is about and where they offer a link to sign in or sign up. You do not need to be a member of ISA to participate. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Call for Book Chapters

New: Provisional title When Students Protest: Politics and Young People             A call for submissions to an edited volume on the topic of student political action.    Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

Seminars

Displacements: From Everyday Experience to Global Policy - A Monash GPS Public Discussion. Please join Monash GPS & friends as they will be launching the Signs special issue on Displacement.                                                                                                    Monday 07 May 2018, 5:30-8pm, Monash Law Chambers                                                  RSVP deadline: 30 April. Read on...

Symposiums

Housing & Community Research Unit - Housing, Welfare, Social Policy          Problematic populations: past, present and future                                                     14-15 June, Hobart                                                                                                                Submission deadline: April 13. Read on...

Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities in Oceania                                          Keynote Speaker: Debra McDougall (Melbourne University) -‘Crashing waves: The transnational force of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Oceania and beyond’  17-18 of August, Parramatta                                                                                              Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Surveys - Call for Volunteers

TASA members Alan Petersen and Kiran Pienaar, both from Monash University, are conducting research into the use of testing in healthcare. As part of this study, they are calling for volunteers to complete a short online survey. They are looking for those who have participated, or been invited to participate, in bowel, breast or cervical cancer screening & those who have recently undergone, or considered undergoing, a medical test. See, Online survey: Experiences of health testing and screening.  

Call for Book Proposals

A new Palgrave book series edited by TASA members Kim Toffoletti (Deakin) and Holly Thorpe (U.Waikato, NZ) (along with Jessica Francombe-Webb, U.Bath, UK) is seeking book proposals. The series, titled ‘New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures’, welcomes proposals that investigate gender identities and assemblages in sport, physical culture and fitness contexts. For more details please contact kim.toffoletti@deakin.edu.au or follow this link.

Call for Papers

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change is an international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed and open access journal. It aims to publish excellent cultural analysis from a range of perspectives. It welcomes innovative and original conceptual and empirical research drawn from a number of disciplines including sociology, social theory, cultural studies, history, cultural anthropology and media studies. Read on...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Seminar Series

Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street, Tower 2, Docklands, Victoria. The seminars are held on the first Friday of every month. Fellow member Brady Robards is scheduled to speak on Friday May 4. The full list of speakers for the year can be viewed here.

Queer Will: hikikomori as willful subjects                                                                            'First Fridays' Deakin GSS Seminar Series: Rosemary Overell on 'Queer Will'                  April 6, Melbourne. Read on...

Conferences

New: DIGITAL CULTURES: Knowledge / Culture / Technology                            Leuphana University Lüneburg, September 19–22                                                          A stunning line up of international speakers across critical questions of digital economies, ecologies, subjectivity, collectivity and futures.                                                                 Extended submission deadline: April 15. Read on...

New: 9th Urban Space and Social Life:  Theory and Practice - Development and Heritage: Present, Past, and Future                                                                              June 7 - June 10
Budapest, Hungary. Corvinus University of Budapest                                                Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific                                   This year’s conference will explore the increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain world that young people across the Asia Pacific live in.                                                                  15 – 16 November,  Deakin Downtown, Melbourne                                                            Keynote speakers include fellow members Shanthi Robertson and Crystal Abidin Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

Oceania Ethnography and Education Network  - for scholars interested in the socio-cultural analysis of education.                                                                                                16-17 August 2018 at Deakin Downtown (Melbourne, Vic)                                          Submission deadline: May 1. Read on...

International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe 16-19th of November, Chengdu, China.                                                                                Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

European Sociological Association Research Network 29 Social Theory Mid-term Conference Refigurations of Society, Sociological Perspectives on Modernity in Transition                                                                                                                      September 5-6, Berlin, Germany                                                                                  Submission deadline: April 7. 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.

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