The Australian Sociological Association: Members' Newsletter
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If you are going to TASA 2017 in Perth, and you haven't registered, please note that the early bird registration deadline is October 2nd.
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Employment Opportunities
Lecturer in Sociology (Sociological Theory - Ongoing)
University of Melbourne
School of Social and Political Sciences
Application deadline: September 10. Read on...
Research Assistant, Media and Communications
Swinburne University, Hawthorn
Application deadline: September 5. Read on...
Scholarship Opportunities
Applications for TASA's Conference Scholarship for Sociology in Action and the Conference Scholarship for TASA Members with Disabilities close on September 11. Please contact Sally in the TASA Office if you have any questions about either scholarship.
Grant Opportunities
The National Library of Australia has grants for available for scholars seeking support for intensive research in the Library’s Asian-language and Asia-related collections. Applications close September 30. Read on...
Zines
So Fi, a sociological fiction zine, is now seeking submissions for Edition #2. Submit short stories, poetry, cartoons and/or other creative work. Submission deadline is September 30 for publication in late November. See sofizine.wordpress.com for more info or contact Ashleigh Watson at @awtsn or ashleigh.watson@griffithuni.edu.au.
Members' Publications
Books
Peter Robinson (2017) gay men's working lives, retirement and old age. Palgrave.
This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924–86. It draws on data collected from interviews with 82 men in Australia, England, New Zealand, and USA. The first half of the book concentrates on the men’s working lives, while the second half of the book explores the interviewees’ concerns about old age and retirement.
Sue Malta and Summer Roberts (2017) Older people as cyber-sexual beings: Online and internet dating in Barrett, C. & Hinchliff, S. (eds) Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People: Theory, Policy and Practice. Routledge, Ch. 11.
Deborah Lupton (Ed.) (2018) Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine. Routledge.
Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms, dedicated patient support sites and wireless devices for medical monitoring has contributed to the expansion of opportunities for people to engage in self-tracking of their bodies and health and illness states.
Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn & Pat Thomson (Eds) (2018) The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education. Routledge.
Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital technologies.
Martin Forsey (2018) Digital Backgrounds, Active Foregrounds: Student and Teacher Experiences with ‘Flipping the Classroom’ in Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn & Pat Thomson (Eds) (2018) The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education. Routledge.
Journal Articles
Thorpe R, Hawkes G, Dune T, Fileborn B, Pitts M and Minichiello V. Hidden boundaries and shared meanings: the roles of researcher characteristics and cultural norms in shaping understandings of sexuality in the unstructured interview setting. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, published online 31 July 2017.
Henry Paternoster (2017) The need for political economy in class analysis: rediscovering Andrew wells' constructing capitalism. Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 79, 2017. Free download.
Reports
Deborah Lupton: Digital Health in Australia: What works, and future directions, News and Media Research Centre
Informed News & Analysis
Steve Roberts: We Should All Change Careers, And Change Them Often, Vice
Andrew Jakubowicz: Ethnic religious communities may be the ‘No’ campaign’s secret weapon insame-sex marriage fight, The Conversation
Blogs
Deborah Lupton: Digital Health Stakeholder Workshop report now released
Podcast
Deborah Lupton: Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 6: Deborah Lupton, self-tracking, risk, big data and health
Video
Raewyn Connell: Interview with Raewyn Connell, Non-hegemonic Masculinities
Member 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.
James Arvanitakis: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
Thematic Groups
Research Methods in Youth Studies: Doing ‘Difference Differently’ 22 November, 2017, University of Melbourne Invited speakers: Professor Greg Noble, Professor Anita Harris, Professor Pam Nilan, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Brady Robards
Crime and Governance symposium
Politics and Crime Control in the 21st Century: Controversies and Challenges The symposium will be held at the UoN Sydney campus (Elizabeth St, Sydney) on the 22nd September 2017. Keynotes: Professor Eileen Baldry & Professor Scott Poynting Registration: free of charge
2017 TASA Health Day
Registration is now open for TASA's 2017 Health Day. Mobilising health sociology for impact: How can complex understandings of injustice and inequality be used in policy and practice? Friday 13th October 2017, UNSW Sydney
Other Events
Scholarships - TASA 2017 Conference
You may be eligible to apply for a TASA 2017 conference scholarship. It includes registration and travel funding. The deadline for all scholarships is September 11 (previously incorrectly listed as September 30). Full details on each one is accessible via the links below:
ISA World Congress, Toronto, 2018
Thank you to those who have submitted their ISA sessions for inclusion in our newsletter. If you would like your session listed, please email the details to Sally in the format they are published in below.
Period and cohort effects on wellbeing in early adulthood RC55 Social Indicators. Read on...
Professions, Citizens, Migrants (or: Crises) and the Media in a “Post-Truth” World TG08 Society and Emotions. Read on...
Making a Contribution – Sociological Theory and Method for Contemporary Healthcare Systems Research RC15 Sociology of Health. Read on...
Religion & Non-Violent Social Movements RC22 Sociology of Religion. Read on...
Migration, Language Integration and Inequalities Joint session: RC25 Language and Society (host committee)
RC31 Sociology of Migration. Read on...
Sociology, Theory and Complementary and Alternative Medicine RC15 Sociology of Health. Read on...
Forms of Collectivity Among Contemporary Youth
RC34 Sociology of Youth. Read on...
War, the Military and Societal Transformation RC16 Sociological Theory. Read on...
Continuity and Change in the Family Life Course (9895) RC06 Family Research. Read on...
Experiences of and Responses to Disempowerment, Violence and Injustice within the Relational Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Two Spirited (LGBTQ2) People RC06 Family Research. Read on...
Public Lecture
New: Children's Rights in the Digital Age Sonia Livingstone: a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics. Children constitute an estimated one-third of the world's population, and, significantly, one-third of the world's internet users. As society increasingly embeds digital networks and services into its fundamental infrastructure, the rights of both users and non-users in a digital age matter. Thursday 7 Sept, 4pm-5.30pm, Western Sydney University, Parramatta City. Read on...
Research Participants Wanted
Positive post-separation parenting: What works for Australian parents?Do you have a good relationship with your former partner? We would like to hear about your experiences, to find out what works in building good relationships between separated parents. Read on...
Symposiums
New: Thinking the Digital: Children, Young People and Digital Practice Friday 8 Sept, 9am-3pm, Pyrmont, Sydney. The Office of the eSafety Commissioner is proud to present, in partnership with the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University and the Department of Media and Communications at Sydney University, a unique opportunity for researchers in Australia to engage in conversation with Professor Sonia Livingstone and each other about children, young people and digital practice. Read on...
New: Digital Food Cultures Friday October 20, Canberra. This is a free but registration is essential. Read on...
Women and Sport: Bringing together industry and academic experts in women's sport for a day of discussion, networking and agenda setting. This is a free event but places are limited so please register. Already we have a diverse range of commercial and community sport representatives coming, along with researchers in various fields. Tuesday 28 November, 9 am - 5 pm. Griffith University, Gold Coast campus. Follow this link for further details or email a.pavlidis@griffith.edu.au.
Workshops
‘Thinking Qualitatively’ (“TQ”) workshop series. 23 - 23 September, Bendigo, Victoria TQ2U: Bendigo is an international touring version of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology’s (IIQM) globally acclaimed ‘Thinking Qualitatively’ (“TQ”) workshop series. This workshop series attracts participants from all academic disciplines at all stages of their career. Individuals conducting research in universities and colleges and/or professional settings as well as students and clinicians are welcome to attend. TQ2U allows participants to engage with experts in qualitative inquiry and learn about specific methods, techniques, and approaches to qualitative research as well as skills development. Read on...
Conferences
New: 2nd International Child Support Symposium 4-5th of December 2017, Swinburne University The symposium will discuss and debate social policies relating to child support, post separation finances, family and gender globally; bringing together researchers, practitioners and policy makers. This event is free but registration is required. Read on...
Mundane Governance Conference: Exploring the hardwiring, disappearance & politics of everyday government 22nd – 24th November, Australian National University, Canberra Submission deadline: September 1. Read on...
Third annual WA Migration and Mobilities Update conference Social Inclusion across the life course: youth, ageing and intergenerational issues 6th September. The University Club, UWA, Perth, Western Australia For more information and registrations, please read on...
International Life Course Conference Sydney, Australia, 24-26 October, Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach.
The conference will bring together researchers, policy makers, and community stakeholders, to showcase the latest research and solutions for reducing social disadvantage. Read on...
Respect Existence or Expect Resistance Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand 6-10 December, Dunedin, New Zealand Submission deadline: September 10. Read on...
Association of Industrial Relations Academics, Australia and New Zealand conference (AIRAANZ) 'Jobs and Change in Uncertain Times' : 32nd Annual AIRAANZ Conference
Adelaide, South Australia
7-9 February 2018 Submission deadline: 15 September 2017 Read on...
Journals - Call for submissions
Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, is pleased to announce they have a partnership with a new publisher, Berghahn Journals. In tandem with their new publisher, they are issuing a renewed call for submissions to their journal. Read on...
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.
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