Thank you 

Dear  ,

As 2016 draws to a close on the heels of one of the association's best attended annual conferences, TASA also boasts its largest membership base ever.  Thank you for your continued support of the association and of sociology. The incoming 2017 Executive team are ready and willing to work with, and for, TASA members in expanding the sociological understanding of our world, and making a difference.  To this end, your thoughts, ideas and suggestions are welcome. 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our newsletter throughout 2016. We look forward to receiving details of your publications next year. May 2017 be one of your best years yet. 

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...

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: TOMORROW 30 December 2016. 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...

Members' Publications

Journal Articles

Newman, C., Persson, A. & Ellard, J. (2016) Pills, providers and partners: Exploring trust among serodiscordant couples in Australia. In Persson, A. and Hughes, S. (Eds.) Cross-cultural perspectives on couples with mixed HIV status: Beyond positive/negative. Dordrecht: Springer, pp 265-276. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-42725-6/page/2

Botfield, J.R., Zwi, A.B. & Newman, C.E. (in press). Young migrants and sexual and reproductive health care. Thomas, F. (Ed),Handbook of Migration and Health. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Accepted for publication on 12 December 2015.http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/handbook-of-migration-and-health

Persson, A., Newman, C.E., & Miller, A. (2016) “There’s more to you than just this virus”: Young people growing up with perinatally acquired HIV in Australia. In Liamputtong, P. (Ed.) Children, Young People and HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer, pp: 107-124.

Botfield, J.R., Newman, C.E. and Zwi, A.B. (2016) Drawing them in: Professional perspectives on the complexities of engaging ‘culturally diverse’ young people with sexual and reproductive health promotion and care in Sydney, Australia. Available online inCulture, Health & Sexuality on 26 September 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2016.1233354.

Newland, J., Treloar, C., Newman, C.E. (2016) “We get by with a little help from our friends”: Small-scale informal and large-scale formal peer distribution networks of sterile injecting equipment in Australia. Available online in International Journal of Drug Policy on 23 April 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.04.005

Newman, C.E., Gray, R., Brener, L., Jackson, L.C., Dillon, A., Saunders, V., Johnson, P., Treloar, C. (in press) ‘I had a little bit of a bloke meltdown … but the next day I was up’: Understanding cancer experiences among Aboriginal men. Accepted for publication in Cancer Nursing on 25 March 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27271367

Persson, A., Newman, C., Mao, L. & de Wit, J. (2016) On the margins of pharmaceutical citizenship: Not taking HIV medication in the “treatment revolution” era. Available online at Medical Anthropology Quarterly on 12 January 2016.http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maq.12274

Newman, C.E., de Wit, J.B., Reynolds, R.H., Canavan, P.G., Kidd, M.R. (2016) ‘Who’s coming up next to do this work?’ Generational tensions in accounts of providing HIV care in the community. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 20(3): 258-273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459315583155

Newman, C.E., Persson, A., Bains, A. and de Wit, J. (2016) Whose voices inform online representations of HIV treatment as prevention? AIDS, 30(5): 808-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000000983

Callander, D., Holt, M., & Newman, C. E. (2016). ‘Not everyone’s gonna like me’: Accounting for race and racism in sex and dating web services for gay and bisexual men. Ethnicities, 16(1), 3-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796815581428

Newman, C. E., Persson, A., Miller, A., & Brown, R. J. (2016). “Just take your medicine and everything will be fine”: Responsibilisation narratives in accounts of transitioning young people with HIV into adult care services in Australia. AIDS Care, 28(1), 131-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2015.1069790

Botfield, J. R., Newman, C. E., & Zwi, A. B. (2016). Young people from culturally diverse backgrounds and their use of services for sexual and reproductive health needs: a structured scoping review. Sexual Health, 13(1), 1-9. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH15090

Persson, A., Newman, C.E., Ellard, J (2016) Bridging the HIV divide: Stigma, stories and serodiscordant sexuality in the biomedical age. Sexuality & Culture, 20(2): 197-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-015-9316-z

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

Christy Newman: Religion And Sexuality Can Co-Exist For Rainbow Families, The Huffington Post

Deborah Lupton & Bethaney Turner: Would you eat a 3D printed pizza? The Conversation

Blogs

Alan Scott: Star Dust

Ann Game: A walk in the Sovara valley

Ann Game: The piazza

Ann Game: Christmas in Anghiari

Ann Game: Christmas mass at Il Carmine

Podcasts

Andrew Jakubowicz: Is the Australian working class racist? Only if prompted, says expert.

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...

Events

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...

Newsletter Submissions

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