Members' Newsletter 

Dear  ,

Congratulations

Our congratulations are extended to fellow TASA member, and 2016 conference volunteer, Naama Carlin, who was recently conferred a PhD in sociology, no revisions required. Well done Naama. 

We also congratulate the fellow TASA members who successfully attained an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant last week. Those members and their projects are listed below. Whilst we don't want to take anything away from those who did receive a grant, we are mindful that many TASA members who applied for grants did not receive funding. As such, we would like to take this opportunity to remind you of an article Kay Cook wrote about Why grant wins hurt us all.

Anita Harris, Loretta Baldassar & Shanthi Robertson:  The effects of transnational mobility on youth transitions. This project aims to examine transnational mobility amongst young people and to understand its effects on their economic opportunities, social and familial ties, capacity for citizenship and transitions to adulthood.

Garth Stahl This project aims to provide the first detailed account of how gender, ethnicity and social class impact on first-in-family Australian males transitioning to university. The DECRA is a cross comparative study which will be conducted in two specific locales, the northern suburbs of Adelaide and the Western suburbs of Sydney.  

Paul Henman, Tim Graham & Paul Halligan, with overseas partners: Their project aims to examine the architectures, rationales, effectiveness and power effects of government web portals, which are conceptualised as spaces of administrative, policy and power contestation. They are the formal public face of online government, but their effectiveness and contribution to government is largely unknown. 

Alan Petersen ARC DPs both as Sole Chief Investigator but with overseas partners:

1. Patients’ use of digital media. This project aims to determine how Australians use digital media and how this influences the development and availability of treatments and the sociocultural factors underlying this digital media use. Patients can use digital media to manage their own health, but this may result in patient harm and a loss of public confidence in the underlying science. 
2. How expectations shape testing in healthcare. This project aims to understand the sociocultural processes underpinning optimism for the use of testing technologies in healthcare. Australians are using more tests, which increases healthcare costs. This project will use the Australian national cancer screening programmes and routine clinical practice as case studies to determine human decision-making traits in sociological terms. 

Shaun Rawolle as part of a team: The project aims to identify and understand the equity of broadening participation to undergraduate degrees through the recent expansion of higher education in vocational institutions. The intended outcomes will provide relevant knowledge about the effects of this expansion on creating opportunities for more equity groups to obtain degrees and for the higher education system to better drive national innovation and economic restructuring in ways that give a fairer chance to all equity groups to participate.

Signe Ravn successfully attained an ARC DECRA. This project aims to investigate the everyday lives and imagined futures of Australian girls who leave mainstream schooling before Year 12, a group often overlooked because of a prime concern with ‘problem boys’. Following 30 girls with disrupted transitional pathways over two years enables a micro-sociological analysis of how the girls’ (dis-)connections to people, places and institutions develop over time. 

Members' Publications

Books

Journal Articles

Andrew, Y. (2016). The unavoidable salience of gender: Notes from childcare work. Gender, Place & Culture: A journal of feminist geography, Onlinefirst. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2016.1249353

Andrew, Y., Corr, L., Lent, C., O’Brien, M., Osgood, J., & Boyd, M. (2016). Worthwhile work? Childcare, feminist ethics and cooperative research practices. Gender and Education, 1-16. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2016.1247948

Smith, G.J.D. and P. O'Malley (2016) 'Driving politics: data-driven governance and resistance', The British Journal of Criminology, DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azw075.

Riaz Hassan, 'ISIS and the Caliphate', Australian Journal of Political Science, 51:4, 2016

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

Matthew Wade: Fertility Clinics Still a Battleground for Queer People, Star Observer

Mark Chou & colleagues: President Trump will change the United States and the world, but just how remains to be seen, The Conversation

Andrew Jakubowicz: European leaders taking cues from Australia on asylum seeker policies, The Conversation

Blogs

Deborah Lupton: 3D printing technologies: social perspectives

Andrew Jakubowicz: European leaders taking cues from Australia on asylum seeker policies

James Arvanitakis: The contribution of Indonesian Islam to Western Civilisation

Podcasts

James Arvanitakis: Is providing a living wage of $45,000 to everyone a workable idea? 936 ABC Hobart

Videos

Dina Bowman: Applied Sociology and Social Policy

Melanie Shier Baker: How Sociology Informs Disability Services

Joseph Borlagdan: Supporting Sociologists outside of academe

Kim Stace: Outcomes Measurement for community service organisations

Pierre Van Osselaer: Social Semiotics

Thematic Groups' Events

Research Forum

From Surviving to Thriving: Inclusive work and economic security for refugees and people seeking asylum                                                                           As global forced migration continues to grow, research into the recruitment barriers, support needs, and long-term economic contributions of humanitarian migrants has revealed insights that can inform policy and programs.                                                       07 December 2016, 9:30am to 4:30pm, University of Melbourne.                               The speakers are now confirmed for this event and many of them are fellow TASA members.                                                                                                                                                             Registration is now open. Read on...

Symposium and Workshop: Meaning and Morality in an Age of Uncertainty.

Friday 2nd of December (following annual TASA conference)                                                La Trobe Franklin St Campus, Melbourne                                                                              The focus of the event will be analysing changes and continuity in expressions of morality and meaning in a world in which the old anchors and certainties have been radically disrupted.  Read on...

Health Sociology in the 21st century: Innovative Approaches to Researching Health and Society

Friday 2nd December (following annual TASA conference)
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

• Keynote speaker Deborah Lupton: Digital sociology meets health sociology: new theories and methods
• Workshop Deborah Lupton: Innovative methods using group task work: a hands-on workshop
• Networking Activity Fran Collyer
• Keynote speaker Fran Collyer:  Innovative Research in Health Sociology
• Panel Discussion: Alan Petersen, Karen Willis, Peta Cook and  Mark Davis: Innovative approaches to researching Health & Society

  Read on...                       

Symposium: Relationality in the metropolis – exploring sociological perspectives for urban studies

Friday 2nd December (following annual TASA conference)
Multi-function Room, 1888 Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville                            For further information, and to register, please read on...

CHASS

CHASS are looking for enthusiastic and proactive Board Members who can help support the conceptualisation and organisation of an annual event for CHASS, among other commitments. Their Board Members are involved in strategic planning, overseeing CHASS's key directions and activities, and ensuring compliance with constitutional and other statutory requirements. A list of current Board members is available here.

If you are interested, or you know someone in TASA who'd be interested in their work, please nominate yourself/her/him using this form by pm AEDT on Monday, 28 November 2016. 

Inquiry into educational opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

On Wednesday, 19 October 2016, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator the Hon Nigel Scullion, asked the Committee to inquire into and report on Educational opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.Interested persons and organisations can make submissions addressing the terms of reference by Friday, 25 November 2016. Read on...

Events

Panel Discussion 

Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women: From Local to Global
02 December 2016, 4:00 to 6:00pm,  RMIT University Melbourne                                          Join this lively and free panel discussion on what it will take to prevent gendered violence before it occurs. Featuring Dr Emma Fulu (The Equality Institute), Ms Kim Webster (ANROWS), Dr Damian Grenfell (Centre for Global Research RMIT), Dr Larissa Sandy (Justice & Legal Studies RMIT), and facilitated by Dr Anastasia Powell (Gendered Violence and Abuse Research Alliance, RMIT).       
Registration now open. Read on...

All being well? Financial wellbeing, inclusion and risk                                                    05 December 2016, 2:00pm to 4:00pm,  Melbourne                                                                       Join the lively panel discussion on financial wellbeing featuring Professor Elaine Kempson (UK) and Professor Jerry Buckland (Canada).                                                                                        Registration now open. Read on...

Seminar

Aboriginal lung health: lung function and breathing better – are we doing enough?                                                                                                                              A free public seminar, Monday, 5 December 2016 – 3pm-4pm                                            Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affect over 300 million people globally. This presentation will highlight the work of the Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) and new work about to commence in Derbarl Yerrigan Aboriginal Medical Service to develop lung function reference ranges in Aboriginal peoples. It will also touch on the question of smoking and ask if we can do more to help individuals quit. Read on...

Beyond the gig economy: opportunities to organise, collaborate and develop new responses to insecure work                                                                                                       24 November 2016, 9:00am to 4:30pm, Melbourne.                                                                                Join researchers from the UK, New Zealand, Denmark and Australia for a public event to discuss the consequences of insecure work, existing policy responses and opportunities for collaboration to foster positive change.                                                                                                            Registration now open. Read on...

Symposiums

Engaging with a shift to the empirical in feminist scholarship: A symposium   TOMORROW Friday November 11, 12.30 – 4.30,  University of Sydney           The organisers are keen to have input from scholars from across the academic career spectrum - from early stage doctoral researchers onwards – and from across the range of disciplinary locations. Our aim is to facilitate a relaxed but intellectually stimulating environment where knowing, not knowing and unknowing are equally valid.                           The event is free but RSVP required. Read on...

Conference

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...

World Complexity Science Academy – WCSA                                                                                     Governing Turbulence: Risk and Opportunities in the Complexity Age                 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 5th and 6th January 2017                                                                                 Abstract submission deadline: November 30. 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...

 The EU's Four Freedoms: moving people, capital, goods and services across the field of European education                                                                                                    European Education Research Journal                                                                                                           Abstract submission deadline: 1 December. Read on...

Migration, Borders, and Education: International Sociological Inquiries International Studies in Sociology of Education, Special Issue Call for Papers         Abstract Submission deadline extended: November 30. Read on...

Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities                                                                                        Special issue on Cultural and Social Anthropology, to be published in December 2017. Abstract submission deadline: December 15. 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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