Dear  ,

A huge thank you is extended to the 2017 LOC who have orchestrated a fantastic TASA conference. A great time has been had by all. In addition to all the many great presentations that have been held this week, four Awards were presented at last night's dinner:

Congratulations Johanna Wyn on receiving TASA's Award for Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology for your outstanding, significant and sustained service to Australian sociology over many years. 

Christy Newman and Joanne Bryant presented the inaugural Health Sociology Review Best Paper Prize to Kevin Dew for his paper: Dew, K. (2016). Purifying and hybridising categories in healthcare decision-making: the clinic, the home and the multidisciplinary team meeting. Health Sociology Review, 25(2), 142-156. An image of Kevin with the trophy and certificate will be available soon.

Congratulations Juliet Watson on receiving TASA's 2017 Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize for the paper 'Gender-based violence and young homeless women: femininity, embodiment and vicarious physical capital'

Congratulations Janine Pickering on receiving TASA's 2017 Jean Martin Award for best PhD thesis 'Gender Dynamics in the Management of Commercial and Public Biotechnology Organisation'.

Employment Opportunity

Research Fellow

School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne: The appointee will conduct research and publish findings on the Australian Research Council funded project LP160100467: Working longer, staying healthy and keeping productive. The project investigates a major social challenge: how to design productive work that accommodates older workers’ health and care needs, similar to the implementation of family-friendly employment.                                                           Application deadline: December 4. Read on...

Journal of Sociology

In celebration of TASA 2017, we invite you to explore the new aims and scope from Journal of Sociology and enjoy free access to our current issue for a limited time. Read on...

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.

Members' Publications

Books

Book Reviews

A shrewd appraisal of sameness and difference: A review of Peter Robinson's Gay Men’s Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age Inside Story

Book Chapters

Aqua Hastings (2017) Outback Healing: Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine across Shifting Socio-Cultural Landscapes in Holmes, T., & Cherniack, P. (eds.) Complementary Medicine and Culture: The Changing Cultural Territory of Local and Global Healing Practices, Ch. 2

Book Launch

Melbourne Gender, Queer, and Feminist Research Network's Annual Seminar and Book Launch. The book being launched is by fellow member Lucy Nicholas & Christine Agius, (2018) The Persistence of GlobalMasculinism: Discourse, Gender and Neo-Colonial Re-Articulations of Violence. Springer.                                              December 14, 2-4pm, Swinburne University, Hawthorn. Read on...

Journal Articles

Lohmeyer, Ben Arnold. 2017. "Youth as an artefact of governing violence: violence to young people shapes violence by young people."  Current Sociology. doi: 10.1177/0011392117738040. 

Informed News & Analysis

David McCallum: How school has been used to control sovereignty and self-determination for Indigenous peoples, The Conversation

Catherine Strong: The 2017 ARIA Awards are still off-key when it comes to gender, The Conversation

Blogs

Alan Scott: Breaking Through Dominant Theories

Podcasts

Adam Possamai: Hyper-Real Religion, Digital Capitalism, and the Pygmalion Effect

Adam Possamai: Its Just not cricket

Videos

Dan Woodman: Presidential address, TASA 2017

Zine

Ashleigh Watson: So Fi is a sociological fiction zine publishing short stories, poetry, photo essays, cartoons, and other creative work. Edition #2 is available online now. 

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. 

Yoland Wadsworth (CASR, RMIT University honorary Adj Professor), who received last year's TASA Sociology in Action Award, had a short plenary at the TASA Conference in Perth this week at which she set out to present her career's worth of research practice and conclusions.  It was entitled: ‘Between personal troubles and public issues, order and change’ – Four decades of the making of an Australian social scientist and a meta-epistemological theory of systemic inquiry as the dynamic of all life.

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Competition 

Australian Population Studies, a new open-access journal on Australian population issues, is pleased to announce a population data visualisation competition. Data visualisation isbecoming increasingly significant in demography and the social sciences and the journal wishes to play a part in promoting and stimulating innovative and thought-provoking representations of population data. 

The competition is open to anyone anywhere in the world, though all data visualisations must relate to Australia. The winner will receive a $500 prize. Read on...

John Western Public Lecture

The Human Judge: Between Craft and Profession                                                   Join the Institute for Social Science Research and the School of Social Science for a special evening featuring a lecture delivered by sociologist, and fellow member, Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu of Flinders University, Adelaide.                                                    Friday December 8, The University of Queensland                                                                Please RSVP by TOMORROW December 1. Read on...

Workshop

HASS Centres of Excellence workshop for the forthcoming ARC Centres of Excellence rounds.                                                                                                          Monday, 11 December, 10:00am–4:00pm,  ACT                                                                     Free Admission: Bookings essential. RSVP: by 4 December. Read on...

Screening

As part of the 16 Days of Activism at UNSW, the Globalisation & Governance Research Network, the Gendered Violence Research Network and the School of Social Sciences invite you to the screening of The Uncondemned.                                                      December 5, UNSW Sydney. Read on...

Symposiums

Advancing the Public Benefit of Universities. Universities exist to serve society, but what does that look like in the 21st century?                                                                Keynote: Raewyn Connell                                                                                                     TOMORROW Friday, 1 December, 9am – 5pm, University of Technology Sydney          For program and registration details, please read on...

Australian Mothering in Contemporary and Historical Perspective                    15-16 Feburary, 2018, The University of Melbourne. Read on...

Health Inequities, Trade and Global Governance Research Symposium           La Trobe University's Centre for Health Law and Society                                                              TODAY 30 November                                                                                                                       Registration is free but essential. Read on...

Conferences

Power & Governance: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences                                  Tampere, Finland, 27–29 August 2018                                                                                          For session and paper proposal deadlines, please read on...

Abolitionist Approaches to Social Problems                                                                    The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)                                                         August 10-12, 2018, Philadelphia                                                                            Submission deadline: January 31, 2018. Read on...

Exit, Voice and Loyalty:  Alternative Economic Models and Responses to Decline in Contemporary Society                                                                                          21-22 May 2018 in Warsaw, Poland                                                                                                      Submission deadline: December 10. Read on...

Call for Papers

Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
Call for Proposals                                                                                                                                 The series provides an opportunity to illustrate the work of emerging and established scholars who are challenging traditional paradigms in the fields of crime and justice. Read on...

Following the success of the Crime and Governance ‘Politics and Crime Control’ symposium, The Journal of Applied Youth Studies (JAYS), along with guest editors Joel McGregor and Xanthé Mallett, are now welcoming abstract submissions for a special issue to be published in early 2018.                                                                                        Abstract submission deadline: December 7. Read on...

Breastfeeding in Public thematic series                                                           International Breastfeeding Journal                                                                                     Abstract submission deadline: TODAY November 30. Read on...

Consumer Vulnerability: Advancing a multidisciplinary perspective of vulnerability                                                                                                                                    The Editors are looking for interdisciplinary perspective on consumer vulnerability. Submission deadline: 12 February, 2018. 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:

1. First name of gift recipient;
2. email address of gift recipient;
3. the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
4. the cost of the membership; and
5. 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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