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The countdown to TASA 2018 submission deadline has begun! As you've no doubt read, the theme of this year’s conference is Precarity, Rights and Resistance. Details of the event are available on the conference website. The submission deadline is June 4.

TASA 2018: Precarity, Rights and Resistance.

Employment Opportunities

Fellowships

The Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) Scheme for 2019 is now open for formal Expressions of Interest. Macquarie University (in Sydney, Australia) is offering up to 10 full-time Research Fellowship positions commencing in 2019. Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis and will be fixed-term for three years. Application deadline: 5pm, May 9. Read on...

Postdoctoral Research Associate

New: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Reframing Ageing in Health. Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Sydney Part of the multi-disciplinary research team, lead by Professor Lindy Clemson, supporting the development of a program of research aimed at developing reframing strategies to address ageism in health. Application deadline: 11:30pm, May 16. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

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

New: 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

Launch - Special Issue

Sociology in the 21st Century: Challenges Old and New
Hosted by / Institute for Culture and Society & / School of Social Sciences & Psychology TODAY May 3, 1:00pm, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South campus Join fellow members to celebrate a special issue of Journal of Sociology edited by
Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, David Rowe and Deborah Stevenson, and including contributions from Rob Stones, Kate Huppatz, Liam Magee & Adam Possamai. Read on...

The Australian Cultural Fields Panel (comprised of Tim Rowse, Anna Cristina Pertierra, Graeme Turner and David Rowe) will present on 'Culture, Habitus, Taste'. This seminar immediately precedes the launch of the JoS Special Issue listed above and is in the same building. 11:30 - 1pm. Readwesternsydney.edu.au on...

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

Forbes-Mewett, Helen (2018). The New Security Individual, Community and Cultural Experiences. Palgrave Macmillan.

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The New Security places the concept of ‘security’ under the spotlight to analyse its meaning in an original and contemporary context. In so doing, Forbes-Mewett revisits the notion from the perspectives of individuals and communities to understand what security means in our culturally diverse, contemporary society. Chapters highlight the extent of the shift of traditional uses of the term from the established perspective of international relations to a more commonly used concept which now broadly relates to many aspects of peoples’ everyday experiences.

Forbes-Mewett, H. (2018) Responsibility, in Bruce A. Arrigo and Geoffrey J. Golson (eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Journal - Articles

Han, G-S., Forbes-Mewett, H. and Wang, W. (accepted 25 April 2018) My own business, not my children’s: Negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne. Mobilities.

Davis, J. P., & Bellocchi, A. (2018). Objectivity, subjectivity, and emotion in school science inquiry. Journal of Research in Science Teaching.

Chesters, J. (2018) The marketisation of education in Australia: Does investment in private schooling improve post-school outcomes? Australian Journal of Social Issues DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.38. published online 16/4/2018

Stone, M., Kokanović, R., & Broom, A. (2018) Care(less) encounters: Early maternal distress and the haunted clinic. Subjectivity

David Rowe & Tony Bennett (2018). Tastes and practices in three Australian cultural fields: television, music and sport. Media International Australia.

Tony Bennett, Modesto Gayo & David Rowe (2018). Television in Australia: capitals, tastes, practices and platforms. Media International Australia.

Modesto Gayo & David Rowe (2018). The Australian sport field: moving and watching. Media International Australia.

Informed News & Analysis

Amanda Wise, Kristine Aquino & colleagues (April 30, 2018). Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities’ social cohesion. The Conversation

Donna Bridges & Ben Wadham (April 23, 2018). Media reporting on women in the military is preserving a male dominated culture. The Conversation.

Marcus Maloney, 'Jordan Peterson: The battle for the hearts and minds of young men', Mojo News

Blogs

Fran Collyer. 'Sociologist of the Month', Current Sociology

Fabian Cannizzo, 'Learning at a Scholarly Pace: On the Socialised Temporalities of Academic Work'. Cultural Sociology.

Podcasts

Kay Cook, 'Government urged to review welfare cuts as child poverty increases in Australia'. ABC Radio National, Breakfast with Fran Kelly

Nicholas Hookway, 'The good, the bad and the history of Australia's obsession with sport'. ABC Hobart

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.

Luke Gahan has been invited to give a keynote address tomorrow Friday May 4 at the South Australian Family Law Pathways Network Annual Forum: "Growing Family Law: A forum for workers in the family law sector". Luke's is called: "Separated Same-Sex Parents"

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.

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 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

New: 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. These publications have just come out based on the research:

Media International Australia

Continuum

Medical Tourism: Australian perspectives and experiences - Call for participants

Volunteers needed for research on overseas medical treatment – Have you or someone you know recently travelled overseas from Australia for a medical procedure? This research study seeks to examine how Australians engage in and understand travelling overseas for medical procedures. We invite participants who are Australian residents aged over 18 years and have travelled overseas for a medical procedure in the last 12 months to complete a survey on their experiences. We would also like to interview people about their experiences in order to gain a more in-depth understanding of their decision-making processes, engagement with health care practitioners and their perspectives on the outcomes of their procedures.

To access more information about the study including the Participant Information Statement and to complete the survey please click on the following link: https://redcap.sydney.edu.au/surveys/?s=T8M839A3HC

If you would like to participate in an interview please provide your contact details at the end of the survey.

Additional information about the study may be obtained from Dr Rowena Forsyth, Lecturer, Discipline of Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, email: rowena.forsyth@sydney.edu.au , Phone: 02 9351 9577.

This study has received approval from the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (protocol number 2017/1010).

Launch of Mission Australia’s Youth Survey 2018

Mission Australia has just launched the Youth Survey 2018! This is the 17th annual online survey run by Mission Australia that gives voice to the concerns, values and thoughts of young people aged 15-19 across the country. This year’s survey will ask new focus questions to delve deeper into issues around social media, alcohol and drugs, barriers to employment and how young people feel about their community. The voices of young people in this research helps us to advocate strongly on their behalf to government, policy, and community organisations about the issues and services that matter to them.

It would be great to get first year sociology students (or any other discipline!) across the country to take part, and could be a great tool for teaching social research methods. The survey can be accessed at www.missionaustralia.com.au/youthsurvey, and is open until Tuesday the 31st of July 2018.

We use the survey data to produce a national report—released at the same time as this year’s TASA conference!—which will be of interest to TASA members, especially those in the Sociology of Youth, Media, and Families and Relationships streams, among others.

Please get in touch with Erin Carlisle at carlislee@missionaustralia.com.au if you have any questions or are keen to get involved!

Experiences of Health Testing and Screening

TASA members Alan Petersen and Kiran Pienaar, both from Monash University, are conducting research into the use of testing in healthcare. As part of this study, they are calling for volunteers to complete a short online survey. They are looking for those who have participated, or been invited to participate, in bowel, breast or cervical cancer screening & those who have recently undergone, or considered undergoing, a medical test. See, Online survey: Experiences of health testing and screening.

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Call for Book Chapters

Provisional title When Students Protest: Politics and Young People A call for submissions to an edited volume on the topic of student political action. Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

Symposiums

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.

Call for Papers

Contention - The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest. Contention accepts research articles with novel findings, critical review articles (4,000 to 7,000 words, including notes and references), theoretical essays, and book reviews (800 to 1,200 words). Contention also accepts commentaries aiming at increasing interdisciplinary debate between authors. Academics may propose a commentary to one of the articles published or may be invited by the editors to comment on an article submitted for publication. Read on...

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change is an international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed and open access journal. It aims to publish excellent cultural analysis from a range of perspectives. It welcomes innovative and original conceptual and empirical research drawn from a number of disciplines including sociology, social theory, cultural studies, history, cultural anthropology and media studies. Read on...

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. Fellow member Brady Robards is scheduled to speak TOMORROW Friday May 4. The full list of speakers for the year can be viewed here.

Deakin's new Gender & Sexuality Studies blog can be viewed here. Please note, recordings of past seminars have started to appear on the blog.

Conferences

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

New: Global Work, Quality Work? The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) 12-14 February 2019, Melbourne Submission deadline: May 18. Read on...

New: Crossing Boundaries: Economic Sociology and its Intersections, ESA RN 09 Economic Sociology Midterm Conference 13 - 15 September, Germany. Submission deadline: May 15. Read on...

New: The Social Boundaries of Work. Work, Knowledge and Power in the Contemporary Capitalism October 25th-26th, Poland. Submission deadline extended: May 15. Read on...

1st International Conference On Child Protection in Africa 8th - 10th August. Nairobi, Kenya Submission deadline: May 9. Read on...

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

Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific This year’s conference will explore the increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain world that young people across the Asia Pacific live in. 15 – 16 November, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne Keynote speakers include fellow members Shanthi Robertson and Crystal Abidin Submission deadline: May 14. 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:

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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.

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