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There are 12 days to go before the TASA 2018 submissions close. For the full details, go to the conference website. 

Congratulations

A warm congratulations to Catherine Waite who graduated this week. Findings from her outstanding Phd thesis on rural young people & place making are already in print here. 

Our congratulations are also extended to James Milton for submitting his Sociology Honours thesis this week (two days early!). 

Employment Opportunities

Professor and Department Chair of Social Sciences

Swinburne University of Technology is looking for outstanding leader in the Department of Social Sciences situated in the School of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (ASSH). The candidate will provide a distinct vision of how Social Science disciplines can contribute to the university’s vision 2025 to be a world class university creating social and economic impact through science, technology and innovation. The university has ambitious plans to ensure our graduates are ready for a world of uncertainty and complexity and we aspire to have research outcomes that have impact on industries, communities and society. Sociologists encouraged to apply. Applications close at 5pm, Friday 1 June. Read on...

Sessional Teaching

Sessional Teaching in Health Sociology opportunity at UTAS Sydney. Facilitate workshops with health profession students in second semester 2018. Email EOI and CV to Dr Kim McLeod . For more information call Dr Kim McLeod 03 6324 5045

Funding Opportunity

End of Financial Year Funding Available: Women's Leadership Development

Women & Leadership Australia is administering a national initiative to support the development of female leaders across Australia’s humanities sector. 

The initiative is providing women with grants of between $3,000 and $8,000 to enable participation in a range of leadership development programs. 

The scholarship funding is provided with the specific intent of providing powerful and effective development opportunities for humanities sector women; however the funding is strictly limited and has to be allocated prior to the end of this financial year.

Expressions of Interest 
Find out more and register your interest by completing the Expression of Interest form here prior to 15th June. 

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

Donor Linking

The successful applicant will be based in the School of Law, La Trobe University. This is a socio-legal project and a law or social sciences background (or combination thereof) is okay. The applicant will work on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project with Associate Professor Fiona Kelly (La Trobe University Law School) and Associate Professor Deborah Dempsey (Swinburne University - Sociology). The project asks: what is the impact of donor linking on individual and familial identities and relationships, and what are the consequences of the growing prevalence and popularity of non-statutory linking for formal regulatory frameworks?    Further details are available here.  

Industry Scholarship - Investigating Community Attitudes to Direct and Indirect Potable Water Reuse

Interested in a Social Science PhD in Water Research? Work directly with industry and receive a $76K scholarship (across 3 years) + benefits package at Deakin University. Reliable and secure water supplies for Geelong and its greater region are being challenged by the paired impacts of climate change and rapid population growth. South-eastern Australia, for example, has experienced an 11 percent winter rainfall decline since the mid-1990s and the Geelong region’s population is expected to exceed 600,000 by 2065 under a high-population scenario.                                                                                    Application deadline: May 31. Read on...

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...

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...

2018 Awards

• 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...

The Beaumont Children: investigations and implications of cold-cases

We are pleased to announce that the Crime and Governance thematic group will be hosting this Social Sciences Week (SSW) event. The event, The Beaumont Children: investigations and implications of cold-cases, will be held on the 11th September at the University of Newcastle's Sydney Location. It will involve a panel discussion with two specialist forensic investigators, Dr Xanthé Mallett and Duncan McNab, and a fellow member, Ben Lohmeyer. The group hope to attract a diverse audience to this event.

There are 3 x $200 bursaries for TASA postgraduate/casual/unwaged members based in regional NSW or interstate to support support accommodation/transportation costs. There are also 5 x $20 bursaries for TASA postgraduate/casual/unwaged members based in Sydney to support car parking or public transport costs (excluding fuel expenses). Anyone interested in applying for these bursaries can email Joel.

The organisers are also looking for undergraduate students who would be interested volunteering. The undergraduate volunteers would be asked to post on social media throughout the event. These students will receive 1 year TASA membership and a $20 visa gift card for their involvement (limited to 10 students). Please pass this email onto any  undergraduate student you think may be interested in volunteering. Interested students can email Joel.

For more details, & to register, please read on..

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

Members' Publications

Books 

Journal - Articles

Verity Cleland, Meredith Nash, Melanie Sharman, and Suzi Claflin (2018). ‘Exploring the Health-Promoting Potential of the “parkrun” Phenomenon: What Factors are Associated With Higher Levels of Participation? American Journal of Health Promotion. Apr 23, 2018|Online First

Michael Fine & Bob Davidson (2018). The marketization of care: Global challenges and national responses in Australia. Current Sociology. 

Botfield, J.R., Zwi, A.B., Rutherford, A, Newman, C.E. (2018) Accounts of learning about sex and relationships among migrant and refugee young people in Sydney, Australia: “I never got the talk about the birds and the bees”. Published online in Sex Education on 30 April 2018. 

Lazuardi, E., Bell, S., Newman, C.E. (2018) A ‘scoping review’ of qualitative literature about engagement with HIV care in Indonesia. Published online in Sexual Health on 16 March 2018.

Botfield, J.R., Newman, C.E., Zwi, A.B. (2018) Engaging migrant and refugee young people with sexual health care: Does generation matter more than culture? Published online in Sexuality Research and Social Policy on 15 February 2018

Botfield, J.R., Newman, C.E., Lenette, C., Albury, K., Zwi, A.B. (2017) Using digital storytelling to promote the sexual health and wellbeing of migrant and refugee young people: A scoping review. Published online in Health Education Journal on 13 December 2017.

Informed News & Analysis

Dan Woodman, 'Nice work, if you can get it'. The Australian

 Randa Abdel-Fattah, 'Weddings, Gaza and Losing Faith'. Q & A, Monday May 21

Blogs

Ashleigh Watson, 'Reviewing Sociological Fiction', The Sociological Review

James Arvanitakis, 'Civics and citizenship education: promoting the future of Australian Democracy?'

Timothy Graham, 'Unsocial media'. Policy Forum.

Podcasts

Nicholas Hookway, 'How neighbouring changes when communities do.' ABC Hobart with Lucille Cutting

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.

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. 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. 

Call for Participants/Volunteers

You are invited to complete an interactive survey that the ABC produced based on fellow member David Rowe's, et al., Australian Cultural Fields research? It is estimated that more than 700,00 people have taken the survey to date. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

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. The next Deakin GSS ‘First Fridays’ seminar will be presented by Kath Albury on Digital Sexual Citizenship on 1 June from 4pm. Read on... The full list of speakers for the year can be viewed here.

Symposiums

New social inequalities and the future of work                                                    Featuring presentations from international experts, including Professors Ruth Milkman (CUNY), Jill Rubery (University of Manchester), Professor Christine Williams (University of Texas at Austin), and Åsa Lundqvist (Lund University) and this symposium will examine how employment rights and rewards are being redistributed and reflect on the most appropriate systems of social support to protect against emerging risks. The symposium will be launched by the Queensland Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, the Honourable Grace Grace.                                                                          19 – 20 June, The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus                                    RSVP June 12. Registration is open to all members of the public. Further information and a link to book tickets can be found here. PhD students working in relevant areas may be able to attend a pre-symposium session with the visiting international experts on Monday 18 June. For information on this session please contact Dr Michelle Brady (michelle.brady@uq.edu.au).

Digital Intimacies 4: Porousness & Permutations
December 5, 6 & 7, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia                              Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

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.

Conferences

TASA 2018 Precarity, Rights and Resistance                                                   November 19 - 22, 2018 Deakin University, Burwood                                                Submission deadline: June 4. Read on...

Save the Date: 24-30 July, 2022

Agri-Food XXV Celebrating 25 Years of AFRN: Exploring past, present & future contributions to agri-food studies                                                                             Hosted by the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 2 - 5 December                                                                                                                                  Session submission deadline: May 31. Read on...

Frontiers and Border Regions                                                                               November 28 - 30, 2018. Beja (Tunisia)                                                                          Submission deadline: June 30. Read on... 

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

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