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In case you missed it, the latest issue of Nexus is available on the Nexus site. Individual articles, from the latest issue are listed below

Employment Opportunities

Professor/Associate Professor in Social Science

School of Public Health and Social Work,  Faculty of Health                                                   Queensland University of Technology, Calvin Grove                                                              This is an ongoing, full time position that is open to Domestic and International applicants. Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.  The Professor / Associate Professor of Social Science will have a strong research leadership role in the discipline of Social Work and Human Services and within the wider School of Public Health and Social Work, and will contribute to postgraduate and undergraduate supervision and teaching.                                                                                                                  Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sociology of Ageing/Social Gerontology 

Sociology Programme, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally and 1st amongst the world’s best young universities.                                                                                                     Application deadline: TOMORROW APRIL 14 Read on...

Members' Publications

Journal Articles

Robertson, S. (2017) 'Infrastructures of insecurity: Housing and language testing in Asia-Australia migration', Geoforum 82: 13-20.

Couch, D., Fried, A. & Komesaroff, P. (2017). Public Health and Obesity Prevention Campaigns - A Case Study and Critical Discussion. Communication Research and Practice, DOI:10.1080/22041451.2017.1310589. Free e-prints are available until they run out via  http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WiafyHGbUaet9bIN3sUu/full 

Fraser, S., Pienaar, K., Dilkes-Frayne, E., Moore, D., Kokanovic, R., Treloar, C. and Dunlop, A. (2017). Addiction stigma and the biopolitics of liberal modernity: A qualitative analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.02.005 

Nexus Volume 29, Issue 1

Eileen Clark: EDITORIAL

Shanthi Robertson: INVISIBLE LABOUR: TALES FROM THE UNDERCITY

Dan Woodman: ON MOBILITY, ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND ADVOCATING FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES – LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF TASA

Yoland Wadsworth: ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR TASA SOCIOLOGY IN ACTION AWARD

Ashleigh Watson: POSTGRADUATE DAY, TASA CONFERENCE 2016

Cassie Curryer: TASA 2016 POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

Aqua Hastings: TASA 2016 POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

Yangtao Huang: TASA 2016 POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

Elly Leung: TASA 2016 POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

Oznur Sahin: TASA 2016 JERZY ZUBRZYCKI POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

Melanie Shier-Baker: TASA 2016 SOCIOLOGY IN ACTION SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

Eileen Clark: ORCID AND KUDOS: TWO TOOLS FOR AUTHORS

Peta Cook: REPORT FROM THE THEMATIC GROUP PORTFOLIO LEADER

John van Kooy: FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING: WORK AND ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR REFUGEES AND PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM

Rebecca E. Olson & Jordan McKenzie: [OUT] IN WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW

Erin Carlisle & Ashleigh Watson: MEANING AND MORALITY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY: A SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP

Michelle Black & Ally Gibson: HEALTH SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES

Deborah Warr & Peter Walters: RELATIONALITY IN THE METROPOLIS

Melanie Shier-Baker, Mithzay Pomenta & Jon Gray: APPLIED SOCIOLOGY THEMATIC GROUP REVIEW 2016

Latest Doctoral Completions: DOCTORAL COMPLETIONS

Blogs

Alexia Maddox: Crowdfunding, cryptocurrencies and financial inclusion – precarious innovation, Discover Society

CHASS Prizes

2017 will mark the fourth year of the annual Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Prizes. The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sectors, including academics, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students.                                                                                                                                 Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

TASA Events

TASA 2017

Submissions focussing on the conference theme of ‘Belonging in a Mobile World’, as well as other areas of interest to TASA thematic groups, are invited. The mobilities turn in sociology has generated questions about different modes of belonging in a world characterised by global flows and precarities. The media report growing levels of permanent and temporary migration, undocumented migration, and movements of people seeking asylum. Governments respond, opening borders, curtailing movement. While becoming hypermobile, superdiverse, and cosmopolitan, immobility is a lived reality for many.                                                                                                                                                       Submissions deadline: June 1. Read on...

Crime & 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: Eileen Baldry & Lana Sandas                                                                                                      Some travel bursaries to postgraduates or casual and unwaged staff to attend the symposium are available.                                                                                                                     Submission deadline: June 2. Read on...

Sociology of Economic Life Workshop

New: Ten years since the global financial crisis: Social movements, labour & the crisis last time                                                                                                                                     Concurrently in Perth - Melbourne - Sydney                                                                                           Fri 1st December, 2017                                                                                                                         Keynote: Dick Bryan                                                                                                                         Submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

Other Events

Public Talk

New: Suburbs for Settlers: Reconciling layers of occupation, affect and trauma in the colonized landscape                                                                                             Professor Rob Shields, Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Sociology Professor, University of Alberta, Canada                                                                                                                                                   FREE EVENT, Thursday April 27, 6pm at the University of Technology Sydney, Hosted by the UTS School of International Studies and Global Studies Program Online RSVP requested, see here. 

Deborah Lupton on Tour

Fellow member Deborah Lupton will be giving four talks in Europe in June this year. Here are the details and the links to the events. You can access the details here.

Symposiums

Religion and the Humanitarian Challenge                                                           The Religion and Global Society Symposium 2017, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia      August 9th & 10th                                                               Abstract Submission: May 31.  Read on...

Digital Food Cultures symposium                                                                                                  Friday 20 October, University of Canberra                                                                                                   This symposium is directed at the social, cultural, political and ethical dimensions of representations and practices related to using digital technologies for food production, consumption, preparation, eating out, promoting healthy diets or weight loss, marketing, ethical consumption, food activism and environmental and sustainability politics.             Abstract submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

Conferences

TASA's Annual Conference                                                                                   Belonging in a Mobile World, 27 - 30 November, Perth                                                                Submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

New: Australian Social Policy Conference                                                                 25 - 27 September, UNSW Kensington Campus, Sydney                                                   Submission deadline: May 17. Read on...

Indigenous Conference Services (ICS) are jointly hosting with the Indigenous Wellbeing Centre (IWC) to stage The 2017 National Indigenous Drug & Alcohol Misuse Conference                                                                                                                        21 – 23 August, Brisbane. Read on...

17th European Society for Health and Medical Sociology Biennial Conference                     Old tensions, emerging paradoxes in health: rights, knowledge, and trust       7-8 June 2018, Lisbon-Portugal                                                                                                         Submission deadline: April 17. 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...

Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies                                                                                 November 15-18, 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago - Chile                                                                                              Call for papers open. Read on...

8th Urban Space and Social Life:  Theory and Practice                                          Transforming Urbanity: People and Cities on the Move                                         9 - 12 June, Malyasia                                                                                                       Call for Papers, Photos for Exhibition, and Photo Essays                                        Submission deadline extended: APRIL 20. Read on...

Social Boundaries of Work. Methodological and Practical Problems of Research on Work and Employment in Modern Societies                                   27-28 of October, Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Summer School

7th Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology - Exile and Memory                        Vienna ,September 24 to 29, 2017.                                                                                              Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

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