Dear ,

Health Sociology Review (HSR) now has a Q1 ranking for Social and Political Science. This is a brilliant achievement and a testament to the excellent work put in by previous Editors in Chief (EiC) Joanne Bryant and Christy Newman, their editorial team & contributors, as well as the current EiC Karen and Sarah (& their editorial team/contributors) who are both happy to chat with authors to see if prospective papers are a good fit for the journal. For a snap shot about the journal and current editorial team, see this HSR flyer. 

Karen and Sarah have just released a call for expressions of interest to guest edit the 2021 HSR Special Issue. Note, those who have previously submitted an expression of interest are welcome to submit again for this call. For the full details, please read on...

TASA 2019

As previously announced, the 'presenter' registration deadline is September 6. If you made a submission and are unsure if it has been accepted, please contact Ainslie. 

Employment Opportunities

New: Lecturer in Gender Studies                                                                                                University of Melbourne                                                                                                          Application deadline: September 1. Read on...

New: Qualitative Researcher                                                                                          Lawyer Wellbeing Project at the Victorian legal regulator: An experienced and confident qualitative researcher is sought to take the copious notes taken by the multiple interviewers, conduct a qualitative analysis, and create a report. Phase 1 consisted of 30+ long-form (1-2 hours each) interviews about the state of wellbeing with a broad range of people across the profession, from  Supreme Court judges to big law firms to regional practitioners to law students.                                                                                                      Time allowance: 8 weeks FTE, with 4 progress meetings, negotiable on contract terms. Can be online or in person, thus allowing for researcher to be based anywhere.                Please forward CVs or further questions to:  ahoey@lsbc.vic.gov.au or 0411359643

Lecturer - Sociology                                                                                                              Monash University, Clayton                                                                                            Application deadline: August 30. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

New: 2020 Summer Scholarships                                                                                          National Library of Australia                                                                                                      Application deadline: August 30. Read on...

Understanding and Promoting the Social and Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+ Young People                                                                                                                                              Institute for Culture and Society / School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University                                                                                                                    Application deadline: August 31. Read on...

Contesting Australian Sport Culture: Women and the Rise of Contact Sport      A PhD Scholarship is available to undertake a project aligned with the DECRA, working with fellow TASA member Adele Pavlidis at Griffith University.                                        Expression of Interest deadline: August 31. Read on...

Indigenous Land & Justice Research Hub PhD scholarship                          University of Technology, Sydney                                                                                              Application deadline: September 30. Read on...

Spotlight

Sociologist looking for work

Ramón Menendez is a cultural sociologist exploring the topic of authenticity in connection to the self. Ramón looks at how sociological conditions impact on the subjective experience of being authentic and the meanings associated with it.

Ramón areas of expertise are Comparative Sociology, Emotions and Affect, History/Comparative Sociology, Qualitative and Quantitative research, Social Psychology, and Social Theory. 

Ramón is based in Melbourne and is interested in work as a Teacher, Tutor, Marking, Research Assistance and Consultancy. You can contact Ramón by emailing: ramonmenendez21@gmail.com

Note: the 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 of members can be accessed on TASAweb here. If you would like to add yourself to the registry, please click here. If you are currently listed on the registry and no longer need to be, please remove yourself or contact TASA Admin to be removed. 

Journal Articles

Sarah MacLean, Jakob Demant & Robin Room (2019) Who or what do young adults hold responsible for men’s drunken violence? International Journal of Drug Policy.

Sarah Maslen & Deborah Lupton (2019) ‘Keeping It Real’: Women's Enactments of Lay Health Knowledges and Expertise on Facebook. Sociology of Health & Illness.

Maylea, C. Alvarez-Vasquez, S., Dale, M., Hill, N., Johnson, B., Martin, J., Thomas, S. & Weller, P. (accepted, Feb 2019) The need for independent advocacy for people subject to mental health community treatment orders. International Journal of Law & Psychiatry, 66: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101452. 

Steven Roche (2019) A scoping review of children's experiences of residential care settings in the global South. Children and Youth Services Review. 

Blogs

James Arvanitakis (2019) Postcard from Wyoming: unpacking my first impressions. 

Archana Voola (August 12, 2019) Tracking the financial icebergs in Australia. The Power to Persuade.

Podcasts

You Kant Say That! Is a new sociology podcast by sociologists and social theorists Dr Na'ama Carlin (TASA member) and Dr Melanie White. Each fortnightly episode explores the theme of 'the self' through the lens of common (and uncommon) sociological texts. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts https://youkantsaythat.buzzsprout.com/

Michelle Peterie (August 12,2019) Understanding the real reasons people are unemployed. ABC Radio National. 

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... 

Members on the Move

Changing jobs, department or location? Let us know and we will list the details here. 

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. 

Fellow member Sarah MacLean (& joint HSR Editor in Cheif) has been invited to give a keynote keynote address at the Nordic Youth Research Symposiums (NYRIS) conference, 'Narrowing paths – transgressive routes' at Aarhus University, Denmark. NYRIS are the leading youth research conference within the Nordic countries. Sarah's topic is ‘Alcohol’s role in inclusion and exclusion’.

Fellow member Crystal Abidin has been invited to speak on a panel at the ASEAN Forum: ASEAN and the Digital Revolution at University of Sydney TOMORROW Friday August 16. Everyone is welcome! Read on...

Members' Promotions

The following fellow members, based at La Trobe University, have all been promoted recently

Thematic Groups 

NextGen Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Symposium

A one-day research symposium. NextGen MEM offers postgraduate students and early career researchers the opportunity to engage with contemporary migration and inclusion challenges as they set out to become the next generation of migration ethnicity and multiculturalism scholars, policy influencers, and practitioners.                                          Thursday, 3 October, 8.30am-4.30pm  Immigration Museum, Melbourne.                   Two travel bursaries of $400 each will be available for interstate TASA members who are postgrads/sessional staff/unwaged and whom without this financial support, would otherwise be unable to attend. If you would like to be considered for the travel bursary, please contact Jora Broerse at jozefien.broerse@live.vu.edu.au.                  For full event details, please read on...

Social Sciences Week (SSW)

TASA Public Lecture

AI is not what you think                                                                                                        Speaker: Anthony Elliott   In this provocative lecture, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about the AI Revolution is either illconsidered or plain wrong. The reason? AI is not so much about the future, but is rather a revolution already well underway – albeit one which is unfolding in complex and uneven ways across the globe. From industrial robots to chatbots, and from driverless cars to military drones – AI, Elliott argues, is transforming all aspects of our lives, from the most intimate aspects of personal relationships to the changing nature of work, employment and unemployment.                                                                                             September 11, 6:00pm, Adelaide. Read on... Event Flyer

TASA Public Forum

New: Will you get off that thing!! Screen-time, learning and cyber-safety              It’s the dilemma facing every parent, and is being called a crisis by some. How much screen-time is too much? What impact is it having on learning and development? How accurate and balanced is the information our kids are receiving? And how safe are the platforms they use? But is there another side to the story? Can those evil screens be harnessed for educational purposes? And aren’t they preparing our digital native kids for the real world?                                                                                                                                  September 12, 5:30pm, Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay Campus, Hobart.  Read on...  

Public Trust in Social Media

New: Public Trust in Social Media Seminiar. Social media are now firmly embedded in the daily lives of many people, as channels for connection, as sources of news and information, and as archives of personal memories. At the same time, public trust in social media companies has plummeted in the wake of data breaches and scandals about how our personal data is being used to profile us. How do we reconcile our reliance on social media with our distrust? How might the governance of social media platforms change in the future? Can social media play a role in a better future for our world? This event will explore these questions and more. Come and join us for an open dialogue led by a panel of world-leading researchers studying the impacts of social media.                              September 10 5:30 - 7:00pm, Monash Conference Centre, Melbourne.                  For the full details, and to register, read on...

Practicing action research – Reflecting on generating a new ‘full cycle’ social science

Presenter: Fellow member Yoland Wadsworth Presenting highlights from four decades of the social science career of Yoland, author of Australia’s best-selling research and evaluation books Do It Yourself Social Research and Everyday Evaluation on the Run – with customary engaging style (and cartoons!). Yoland will show how these many years of practice-based co-inquiry culminated in a cutting-edge transdisciplinary theory for Building in Research and Evaluation: Human Inquiry for Living Systems. September 12, 1:15pm, Melbourne. Read on...

My School, Your School, Our Schools: A Sociology of Education Summit

Thursday 12 September 2019. University of Technology, Sydney                                                  Note: the program for this event has been updated and can be accessed here.                        To register, please click here. 

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. For the full list of SSW events, please see the SSW website. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Sociology Salon

New: Benefits and burdens associated with Australian Mothers' use of informal child care                                                                                                              Speaker: Michelle Brady                                                                                                                          August 21, 1:15pm - 2:15pm, University of Melbourne.                                                                RSVP for catering purposes grmead@unimelb.edu.au.  Read on...

Canberra Writers Festival

Ivory Towers,  Canberra Writers Festival                                                                        The higher education industry is booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and an unprecedented flow of funds to the university sector. So why is there a university crisis?                                                                                                    11.30 am to 12.30, main hall, University House ANU, Sunday 25 August.                        Speakers: Raewyn Connell, Ian Chubb, Don Watson, Julie Hare.                                  See page 15 of the program. 

Warm Data Lab Training

New: Nora Bateson's Warm Data Lab Training                                                                    11 - 15 November Reinscourt, Western Australia                                                                     Early bird registration deadline: August 23. Read on...

Call for Interviewees

Volunteer Experiences in Australian Immigration Detention Facilities          The study is being conducted by fellow member Michelle Peterie, who is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Research and contact details are located on the study website here. 

Call for Participants

Fellow member Michael Walsh conducting a survey of Twitter users, aged 18 years and over. The research team's aim is to explore perceptions of interacting on twitter and examine attitudes towards incivility on that social media platform. Read on...

Invitation to sign up to the Vitalities Lab mailing list. 

The Vitalities Lab is a new initiative based at UNSW Sydney, led by Deborah Lupton. As part of its research training and mentorship activities, the VLab hosts presentations from visitors and runs regular pop-up reading groups and methods workshops, open to all who may be in or close to Sydney on the day. If you would like to be informed of these events, please contact Deborah and she will add you to the mailing list.

Public Lectures

 2019 John Western Public Lecture                                                                     Data analytics in the public sector: the tortoise or the hare?                              Professor Rhema Vaithianathan                                                                                                      Tuesday September 10 (as part of Social Sciences Week), Brisbane                            RSVP: Thursday 5 September 2019 – as places are limited, please register to secure your spot. Read on...

10th Annual South Australian Women's Studies and Gender Studies Public Lecture:      The Financial Future of Older Women in Australia: Beyond Poverty, Pity and Parity.                                                                                                                                       Professor Kathleen Riach (Monash University) will move beyond the well-known statistical accounts of gender and ageing to explore the complex cultural, structural and political reasons why women continue to become unequal and forgotten members of our society as they grow older.                                                                                                                Thursday 19 September, 5.30 - 7.00pm, Flinders at Victoria Square, Adelaide                  This is a free event but there are limited places.                                                                         For full details and to register, read on...

‘Managing diversity in junior sport: the tension between participation and talent identification’                                                                                                      Tuesday 20 August , The University of Melbourne                                                                      Whether it’s within the workplace or on the sporting field, ‘diversity’ involves managing talent. In this public lecture, fellow member Karen Farquharson will explore how community-based junior sports clubs balance the desire to provide participation opportunities for children and the imperative to win.                                                  Bookings: Free, but required. Read on...

Minors in Minority Religions: The Delicate Balance between Religious Freedom and the Well-being of the Child                                                                        Western Sydney University, Liverpool City Campus                                                                      Tuesday, September 17, 13:00-15:00                                                                              Speaker: Dr Susan J. Palmer (School of Religious Studies, McGill University)                 RSVP: By Friday, September 13 to Alan Nixon. Read on...

Call for Debate Pieces

The editors of Evidence & Policy  are currently calling for debate pieces to help advance key controversies and discussions in the interdisciplinary field of knowledge use. Read on...

Call for Reviews

The editors of Evidence & Policy is focused on scholarship concerned with the interplay between evidence and policy/practice. They are currently seeking to commission a series of reviews to summarise the state of the science as a foundation for progressing key issues and debates within the interdisciplinary field of knowledge use. To ensure that these reviews are accessible to all, they will be published open access, free of charge. Read on...

Call for Special Issues

The editors of Evidence & Policy journal are currently seeking proposals for a special issue to be published in 2021 or later. Interested applicants are asked to submit a two-page proposal to the journal by 24th September. Read on...

Seminars

Crisis, Treatment, and the Role of the Beauty Salon                                                       A public seminar by fellow member Hannah McCann                                                 Deakin University’s next ‘First Fridays’ Gender and Sexuality Studies                                    4pm on September 6 at Deakin Downtown, Melbourne.  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. 

Conferences

New: Re-creating Landscape and Culture in a Time of Global Change                     International Association for Society and Natural Resources                                                Cairns, Australia, June 23-26, 2020. Read on...

New:  Activism at the Margins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change                                                                                                                                                  10 - 12 February 2020 RMIT University, Melbourne                                                                     Abstract Submission deadline: October 1. Read on...

Rural sustainability in the urban century                                                                          XV World Congress of Rural Sociology                                                                                            8-12 July 2020, Cairns, Australia                                                                                                          Submission deadline: September 27. Read on...

SAANZ Conference 2019 - Sociology for Everyone.                                       University of Auckland, 3-6 December                                                                                Submission deadline: 5pm September 20. 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...

ISA Research Committee 22 (An international scholarly organization for the Sociology of Religion)                                                                                                                                            IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 14- 18 July 2020                                  Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

The 28th American Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference  ‘Masculinities in Transition.’  19-22 March 2020. Greeley, Colorado, USA.                      Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2019. Read on...

Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration and Exile                                                
14-15 November 2019, Canberra, Australia                                                                    Submission deadline: September 1. Read on...

Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Strengthening Science and Collaboration                                                                                                                                        June 25-27, 2020, New York Hilton Midtown in New York City.                                   Submission deadline: November 1. 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...

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...

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.