The Australian Sociological Association: Members' Newsletter
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If you are attending TASA 2019 in November and are looking for some convenient and lower cost accommodation, there are several 5 bedroom apartments (most rooms are single rooms, some rooms are double rooms) available on the Western Sydney University, Parramatta campus. The apartments are $250 per apartment per night. If you are interested in getting a group of friends/colleagues together to share an apartment, you can book the accommodation through Kasen Wu, Team Leader - Customer Contact Village (+61 2 8024 6060). Note, please advise Kasen it is for the TASA Conference.
As previously announced, the 'presenter' registration deadline is September 6.
Employment Opportunities
New: Research Fellow – Digital Energy Futures Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
New: Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow – Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
New: Project Officer – Digital Energy Futures Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
Lecturer in Gender Studies University of Melbourne Application deadline: September 1. Read on...
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: 2 x PhD Scholarships – Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
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
Jae-Eun Noh
Jae-Eun Noh's research and practice include a human rights–based approach to development, social justice, gender equality, community-led development, and ethics in development practice. Her research interests are influenced by 5 years of experience in international development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and supported by studies in a range of intersecting fields. Jae-Eun holds a PhD in development studies from the University of Queensland (Australia).
Jae-Eun's areas of expertise include Applied Sociology, Community Research, Comparative Sociology, Development and Social Change, Human Rights and Global Justice, Immigration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, Migration, Ethnicity & Multiculturalism, Nationality and Citizenship, Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management, Political Sociology, Qualitative research, Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change, Social Welfare and Social Policy, Welfare Issues and Human Services, Women in Society
Jae-Eun is based in Brisbane and interested in work in Teaching, Tutorials/Seminars, Lectures, Teaching Online & Research Assistance. You can contact Jae-Eun via email or LinkedIn.
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.
TASA Executive member Ashleigh Watson is our Secretary. Ashleigh was awarded her PhD last year and recently secured a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Vitalities Lab, Social Policy Research Centre and Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney. Ashleigh's research focuses on digital data, design, futures, and creative research methods. She is also interested in fiction, social theory, and speculative design. She is the creator and editor of So Fi Zine and the Fiction Editor of The Sociological Review.
Ashleigh Watson: Secretary
If you haven't met Ashleigh, you can meet her at TASA 2019 in November, Sydney. You can also follow her on Twitter: @awtsn
Meet Crime & Governance Thematic Group Convener Joel McGregor. Joel of the University of Newcastle.
Joel's PhD thesis sought to uncover the ways in which case management and diversionary programs come together as a practice that is applied in the youth justice setting. Joel's recent ABC Radio interview can be accessed via: Juvenile justice experts urge Australia to look to NZ for solutions.
You can follow the Crime & Governance Thematic Group on Twitter: @TASA_CaG
The Crime & Governance thematic group brings together TASA members with research interests in how crime, deviance, governance and social control are understood and operate within society.
Members' Publications
Catherine Koerner & Soma Pillay (2019) Governance and Multiculturalism: The White Elephant of Social Construction and Cultural Identities. Springer.
Books
A key intervention in the growing critical literature on race, this volume examines the social construction of race in contemporary Australia through the lenses of Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and whiteness. Informed by insights from white Australians in rural contexts, Koerner and Pillay attempt to answer how race shapes those who identify as white Australian; how those who self-identify thusly relate to the nation, multiculturalism, and Indigenous Sovereignties; and how white Australians understand and experience their own racialized position and its privilege. This “insider perspective” on the continuing construction of whiteness in Australia is analyzed and challenged through Indigenous Sovereign theoretical standpoints and voices. Ultimately, this investigation of the social construction of race not only extends conceptualizations of multiculturalism, but also informs governance policy in the light of changing national identity.
Book Reviews
Sarah Callahan (2019), Book Review: Jayne Osgood and Kerry H. Robinson, Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods: Generative Entanglements. Journal of Sociology.
Journal Articles
Jae-Eun Noh(2019). The Nexus of a human rights-based approach and microfinance. Development in Practice. (DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2019.1646705)
Helen Forbes-Mewett & Madeleine Pape (2019) Social Capital and the U.S. College Experiences of International Student-Athletes and Non-Athletes. Journal of International Students.
McGowan, Jasmine & Elliott, Karla (2019) ‘Targeted violence perpetrated against women with disability by neighbours and community members’, Women’s Studies International Forum, DOI: 10.1016/j/wsif.2019.102270. Note, there is 50 days free access via https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539519300640?dgcid=author
Blogs
Deborah Lupton (August 20) In-conversation about digital health and Data Selves. This Sociological Life.
Kristen Harley (August 19, 2019) Goodbye Room 103
Ann Game (August 18,2019) Belonging in Anghiari – Marco Seri. Living in Relation.
James Arvanitakis and Alix Beattie (August 17, 2019) Power, politics and art. Open Forum.
Podcasts
Exploring Violence and Society - Host: Ben Lohmeyer Episode 3 – Violence to animals and the interconnection of oppression with Associate Professor Nik Taylor (University of Cantebury, NZ). Nik talks us through a difficult conversation about systemic violence towards animals. She challenges us to understand the interconnected nature of oppression and the social systems that make it so easy to look away from these critical questions.
Juliet Watson (August 19, 2019) Researching Gender-based Violence. Research in Action.
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.
Jens Zinn is giving a keynote at at BSA Risk and Society Study Group Event, 'Tensions at the front line of risk work: implications for policy and practice' in December.
Members' 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
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)
Genders & Sexualities Thematic Group SSW events
New: Critical Femininities Keynote Public Lecture - Dr Amy Shields Dobson (Curtain University) 6:00pm-7:00pm, September 12th, University of Melbourne, Parkville
Several feminist scholars have recently suggested the importance of playfulness, creative, imaginative, and artistic interventions and activism in response to the neoliberal political and academic pressures of the current moment. This talk explores some critical examples of playfully-seriously imagining lives otherwise, and some emergent tensions around femininities and rage. Registration free but essential. Read on...
New: Rethinking Critical Femininities: Feeling, Feminist Practice and Beyond 8:00am - 6pm, Friday September 13th, University of Melbourne, Parkville This one day symposium aims to push beyond the diagnosis of femininities in terms of neoliberal individuality, to attend critically to assemblages of transformations in everyday practices, embodiments, and affects of femininities. What femininities arise in relation to contemporary feminist contexts, and what are the shifting relationships between femininities and feminist practice today? Speakers Include: Amy Dobson, Akane Kanai, Julia Coffey, Carman Fung, Katherine Giunta, Elianne Renaud, Megan Sharp, Shoshana Rosenberg, Kim Toffoletti, Lucy Baker, Amanda Howell, Maura Edmond, Marissa Willcox, Hannah McCann, Kythera Watson-Bonnice, Megan Rose, Gemma Killen, Madison Magladry and Caitlin McGrane. Registration is free but essential. Read on...
Report Launch
New: Women in Trades report launch “A Trade of One’s Own” Regional NSW stakeholder findings – barriers and proposed solutions for women in the manual trades 2019 This Report details consolidated findings across three comprehensive industry stakeholder consultations held in Albury, Bathurst and Wagga Wagga during 2018. These consultations illuminated the persistent barriers to women’s recruitment and retention as well as revealed insights into how women can pursue successful, meaningful careers. September 10, 11:00am, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst. Read on...
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
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
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
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
HDR Workshop
New: Researching New Religions: Qualitative Methods in a Controversial Field September 19, 1pm - 4pm Western Sydney University, Liverpool campus Guest instructor, Susan J. Palmer RSVPs essential due to limited spaces to Jennifer Cheng by Friday, 13 September. Read on...
Study Group
New: Tensions at the front line of risk work: implications for policy and practice A BSA Risk and Society Study Group Event 9 – 10 December 2019
BSA London Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf , London. Submission deadline: September 20. Read on...
Sociology Salon
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.
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...
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...
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
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...
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:
- 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
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.
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The theme of the forthcoming Congress (July 2022) is Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies. We welcome, and encourage, you to spread the word using this flyer.
The International Sociological Association has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the global database 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 there is a link to sign in or sign up. You do not need to be an ISA member to be listed on the GMSSI
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