Members' Newsletter 

Dear  ,

Listed below are four employment opportunities, we encourage you to share them with your colleagues and via your social media networks:

Employment Opportunities

NEW: The University of Melbourne has a short term position (around four months, full time - negotiable) for an experienced researcher to work with us to write up findings from a media analysis focusing on representations of class in newsprint media. Please contact Deborah Warr at the University of Melbourne to discuss the position.                               Application deadline: January 20, 2017. Read on...

The University of Sydney is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Qualitative Research in Health to ensure sustainable, high quality and flexible provision of qualitative health research teaching within the Sydney School of Public Health. Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment and search by the reference number 1920/1116 for more information and to apply.                                                                                                                Application deadline: 2 January 2017. Read on...

The School of Social and Political Sciences, at The University of Melbourne,  is seeking a Level B Lecturer in Sociology through the Melbourne Early Career Academic Fellowship program (MECAF). The successful applicant will complete a structured development programme provided by the University within their workload allocation. This programme provides training, supervision and appropriate career and professional development opportunities towards establishing an academic career.                   Application deadline: 8 January 2017.  Read on...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore invite applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Sociology from candidates with expertise in the sociology of ageing/social gerontology. Candidates should possess a PhD in Sociology or a related social-science discipline at the time of appointment, demonstrable evidence of excellence in research and teaching, and a commitment to university service. The University emphasizes cutting-edge research and teaching and boasts strong support for each. The successful applicant is expected to teach in English at both undergraduate and graduate levels.                                                                                                                                         Application deadline: 30 December 2016. Read on...

Members' Publications

Journal Articles

Malatzky, Christina. 2016. “Abnormal mothers: Breastfeeding, governmentality and emotion amongst regional Australian women.”Gender Issues. doi: 10.1007/s12147-016-9179-0

Lewthwaite, B., K. Wilson, V. Wallace, S. McGinty and L. Swain (2016) ‘Challenging normative assumptions regarding disengaged youth: a phenomenological perspective’, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 

Myconos, G., J. Thomas, K. Wilson, K. te Riele and L. Swain (2016) ‘Educational Re-engagement as Social Inclusion: the role of flexible learning options in alternative provision in Australia’, FORUM.

Davis, M., Flowers, P., Lohm, D., Waller, E and Stephenson, N. (2016) Immunity, biopolitics and pandemics: Public and individual responses to the threat to life, Body & Society, 22(4), 130-154. DOI: 10.1177/1357034X14556155 Q

Davis, M., Flowers, P., Lorimer, K., Oakland, J. and Frankis, J. (2016) Location, safety and (non) strangers in gay men’s narratives on ‘hook-up’ apps, Sexualities, 19(7), 836-852.

Leslie, E., Smirnov, A., Najman, J. and J. Scott. (2016). Stimulant Use Transitions and harm Mitigation Responses: Analysis of a Qualitative Data Set. Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

Lenton, S., Grigg, J., Scott, J. and M. Barratt. (2016) The social supply of cannabis in Australia: Definitional challenges and regulatory possibilities. In B. Werse and C. Bernard (eds.) Friendly Business - International views on social supply, self-supply and small-scale drug dealing. Springer.

 Kumar, N., Minichiello, V., Scott, J. and T. Harrington (2016): A Global Overview of Male Escort Websites, Journal of Homosexuality, DOI:10.1080/00918369.2016.1265356

Cooper, Y., Scott, J., Barclay, E., Sims, M., Love, T. Crime prevention and young people: models and future direction for night patrols.Crime Prevention and Community Safety. 18, doi:10.1057/s41300-016-0009-

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

Luke Bearup: Interview with Dr Luke S Bearup “Protection against human trafficking—how is that done?”International Affairs Forum.

Sue Malta, Meredith Temple-Smith, Jane Hocking & Adrian Bickerstaffe: It takes two to tango:discussing sexual health w/older patients in primary care. On Line Opinion

Blogs

Megan Sharp: The Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire resonates with queers globally by Megan Sharpe

Andrew Metcalfe: Arriving in Anghiari

James Arvanitakis: Education Blog: How educators are failing and how we can respond

Research Participant Opportunity

If you are aged 60 years and over the Sexual Health & Ageing, Perspectives and Education (SHAPE) Project, presents a unique opportunity for you to participate in research to improve the wellbeing of older people.  Read on...

Grants

Ten Grants are offered to persons presently registered in a Doctoral Course and now working on their Doctoral Dissertation, in any discipline, concerning European values such as peace, solidarity or equality. Application deadline: January 30, 2017.  Read on...

International Sociological Association

Letter from Michael Burawoy, Editor of Global Dialogue: The December issue of Global Dialogue (GD6.4) has now been posted. We lead with a rare interview with Anthony Giddens reflecting on his role as a sociologist in the British House of Lords.  We follow with 5 articles on the Greek economic, political and social crisis as seen through divergent sociological lenses. We have three articles from Latin America – Argentina, Mexico and Peru – on the uphill but resolute struggles for abortion rights. Moving to the Middle East we have a symposium on the recently published report on Social Sciences in the Arab World.  And we end with three special columns: an interview of George Ritzer on Prosumption and McDonaldization of the world by a student from Kosovo; Edward Tiryakian’s memories of the ISA; and the introduction to the second Japanese Editorial Team.       

Events

Funding for Women's Leadership Development

Women & Leadership Australia have scholarships are available across three key management levels.                                                                                                                                   Applications close: TODAY December 22. Read on...

Seminars

Encountering misrecognition: being mistaken for being Muslim  Professor Peter Hopkins Newcastle University, UK                                                             Thursday 19 January. Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre, Deakin University (Melbourne Burwood campus), 3.00 to 4.00 pm. Read on...

Alcohol in the city centre: Detection, unintended consequences and effects on the community. A free public seminar with Simon Moore, Professor of Public Health, Cardiff University.                                                                                                                 Wednesday, 18 January 2017 – 11.30am-12.30pm                                                                                 This seminar will discuss research on real time analysis of CCTV data to detect and understand violence in night time environments; how “big data” can reveal the causes and consequences of alcohol use and how health services, and the community generally, are affected by those who drink alcohol to excess. Read on...

Conferences

Calling for panel proposals for the ‘IRiS International Conference 2017: Global Perspectives on Research Co-production with Communities:  Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies’. The Institute for Research into Super Diversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham and will be hosting its 4th annual conference in partnership with The Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne at the University of Birmingham on 14th and 15th September 2017. Go to the conference website for more details.

15th Annual meeting of the International Society for Quality-of-Life studies
Quality of life: towards a better society
28-30th of September 2017
Innsbruck, Austria                                                                                                                             Submission deadline: February 14, 2017. Read on...

Critical Approaches to Risk and Security: East, South, North and West             10th-12th April 2017, Singapore                                                                                                     This conference will provide a great opportunity for people to develop networks in South East Asia.                                                                                                                                                 Submission deadline: 12th January 2017. Read on...

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)                                                                                 July 6- 8, 2017 Copenhagen                                                                                                                                 Sub-theme 69: Organization Studies and Industrial Relations: Overlapping Concerns and New Possibilities The stream seeks to promote the dialogue between labour relations and wider scholarship in organisation studies. They are looking for a broad range of contributions and would like to have some more submissions with a sociological bent. Read on...

Making alcohol and other drug realities                                                     Contemporary Drug Problems                                                                                                                      23-25 August, 2017. Helsinki, Finland                                                                                              Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2017. Read on...

XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                 Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities                            Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. Read on...

The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) invites submissions for the 67th Annual Meeting, to be held August 11-13, 2017, at the Montreal Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, Quebec Canada.                                                                                                                   Submission deadline: January 31, 2017.  Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal                                                           Special Issue Contemporary Boys’ Literacies / Boys’ Literatures                         First draft submissions deadline: February 1, 2017. Read on...

Future-Proofing Higher Education: towards the Citizen Scholar                               Active Learning in Higher Education                                                                                                Submission deadline: 1 February 2017. Read on...

Sport, Feminism, and the Global South                                                                          Sociology of Sport Journal                                                                                           Guest editors: Kim Toffoletti and Catherine Palmer                                                    Submission deadline: March 1, 2017. Read on...

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