The Australian Sociological Association: Members' Newsletter
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Childcare at TASA 2018
If you are bringing children to TASA, see our ‘family friendly initiatives’ page for available resources. Please contact Kim, fellow member and one of the TASA 2018 Local Organising Committee members, if you have any questions.
IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are seeking on-site childcare, The Deakin & Community Childcare centre has limited places and delegates are encouraged to contact the centre asap to make arrangements. Further details can be found on the ‘family friendly initiatives’ page.
Congratulations
A warm congratulations is extended to fellow member Lise Mogensen who, along with their co-authors, has been awarded the The International Association for Medical Education (AMEE) Best Paper Award for 2017-2018 for their paper, 'Problematizing medical students with disabilities: A critical policy analysis'.
Employment Opportunities
New: Associate Professor in Sociology & Anthropology University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing. Application deadline: November 8. Read on...
New: Lecturer in Societies, Cultures & Human Services University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing. Application deadline: October 30. Read on...
New: Lecturer in Societies, Cultures & Human Services (Criminology) University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing. Application deadline: October 30. Read on...
New: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – Integrated Care University of New South Wales Application deadline: November 4. Read on...
New: Research Fellow La Trobe University Application deadline: November 11. Read on...
New: Research Fellow The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Environments & Society, are seeking to appoint a post-doctoral (or equivalent) social scientist (sociology, anthropology) to the position of Research Fellow to support the development and implementation of collaborative qualitative research to explore the health effects of illicit drug economies and related intervention with a primary focus on Myanmar (Kachin and Shan states). The post involves capacity-building and training in qualitative methods of data generation and analysis as well as fieldwork. The post has a primary focus on supporting qualitative research teams in Myanmar, but also to a lesser extent in Colombia and Afghanistan. Applications close: 4 November. Read on...
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Sociology Job ID: 20104. Full time/permanent The University of Auckland Applications close: 21 October. Read on...
Scholarship Opportunities
New: Healthier Tasmania: Assessing the effectiveness of anticipatory care University of Tasmania The Anticipatory Care Action Learning Project is a significant, new research collaboration that seeks to understand what forms of anticipatory care are available in Tasmania, the enablers and barriers that exist in accessing them and to contribute to the development of a best practice model suitable for scaled up implementation. Application deadline: October 31. Read on...
PhD scholarship in Social Housing: Pathways out of social housing RMIT University are seeking highly motivated and qualified applicants for a PhD scholarship to commence in February, 2019. The successful applicant will have, at minimum, an Honours level qualification in social science or related discipline and will have experience in quantitative research methods. Utilising their skills with administrative and survey data, the successful candidate will examine why people leave social housing and what happens to them subsequently. Fellow member, and winner of the 2017 ECR Best Paper Award, Juliet Watson, will be one of the supervisors. Application deadline: 26th October. Read on...
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...
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...
Nexus - Doctoral Completions
Members' Publications
Books
Molnar, G., Amin, S. N., & Kanemasu, Y. (Eds.). (2018). Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region: Domination, Resistance, Accommodation. Routledge.
Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts to discuss these issues with a sole focus on the geographic Asia-Pacific region.
Book Reviews
Maho Omori - Book Review: Hanne Marlene Dahl, Struggles in (Elderly) Care: A Feminist View. Journal of Sociology. Article first published online: October 5, 2018
Book Chapters
Amin, S. N. (2018). ‘The right way for me to do things for me’: experiences of some Afghan women in entering and practising karate. In Molnar, G., Amin, S.N. and Kanemasu, Y. (Eds). Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region (pp. 93-109). Routledge.
Journal - Articles
Nicholas, Lucy (2018) Queer ethics and fostering positive mindsets toward non-binary gender, genderqueer, and gender ambiguity. International Journal of Transgenderism
Meredith Nash & Robyn Moore (2018) Exploring research relationships and other ethical challenges of participatory visual research in remote environments, Journal of Sociology
Blatman-Thomas, N. and Libby Porter. (2018) ‘Placing Property: theorizing the urban from settler-colonial cities,’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Online first, doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12666
Collin, P., Fullagar, S., Healy, S., Crabtree, L., & James, P. (2018). Resilience. The Occasional Papers, Institute for Culture and Society (tOPICS), 9(1).
Hussain, F., & Amin, S. N. (2018). ‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan. Gender & Development, 26(2), 249-265.
Karla Elliott (2018) Negotiations between progressive and ‘traditional’ expressions of masculinity among young Australian men. Journal of Sociology.
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.
Steven Roberts (5 October, 2018) The ABC of property buying for Generation Z. Financial Review.
Blogs
Nick Osbaldiston (5 October, 2018) Seachanger: the next generation? Infelices Possidentes
Alan Scott (11 October, 2018) Identifying outcomes of change.
Slides
Alexia Maddox (9 October, 2018) Bitcoin Blockchains on Twitter timelines: A Social Media analysis of cryptocurrency discourse in the Australian Twittersphere.
Websites
Meredith Nash - Dr Meredith Nash
Videos
Brady Robards (4 October, 2018) From Honours to Article
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
Seminars
New: Professor Barbara Risman (University of Chicago) will be at the University of Melbourne on October 22 to discuss her new book ‘Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure’. For more details and event registration, read on...
New: Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism: Critical, Contextual, and Collective Turns 5 November 2018, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus, 10:30-12:00
Speaker: Associate Prof Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida). Read on...
Public Lecture
Activist Movements and Social Theory The Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture
168 Lonsdale st, Melbourne
Friday, 23rd November 4:30pm Speakers include fellow member Theresa Petray Bursuries available for TASA postgraduate members. For more details, and
registration, 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 will open December 5. Read on...
Call for Papers - Journal
Contemporary Issues of Early Childhood Special Issue on the early childhood workforce - Inconvenient truths about Early Childhood Education and Care: Workers' lives matter Guest editors include fellow member Yarrow Andrew Abstract submission deadline: October 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...
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
New: Sport, Culture and Gender: Where Are We Now? This event is hosted by the Religion & Society Research Cluster and the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University. Thursday 8 November 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Parramatta, NSW 2150 Keynote Speaker: Fellow TASA member and TASA 2018 Local Organising Committee member Kim Toffoletti, Deakin University:Who is visible in sport and recreation? Thinking through gender and cultural diversity Registration free but essential. Read on...
New: 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...
Real and Digital Experiences: Latin American Migrants in Australia 1 November, 2018, RMIT University, Melbourne Registration deadline: October 22. Read on...
Conferences
Economy & the Possible: Alternative, Missed and Reified Futures in Contemporary Society 20-21 May 2019 in Warsaw (Poland) Submission deadline: 10 December. Read on...
New thinking on migration starts here Metropolis Conference, 29 October – 2 November, Sydney Explore migrant voices in a connected world - a place for advocating social change or platform for cyber racism? Keynotes include fellow member Andrew Jakubowicz. 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...
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:
- First name of gift recipient;
- email address of gift recipient;
- the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
- the cost of the membership; and
- 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
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