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We're happy to report that the Key Dates for TASA 2019 have been locked in so that you can add them to your 2019 calendar. They are:

• Monday 25 February – Call for abstracts will open 
• Monday 27 May – Abstracts will close 
• Friday 26 July – Notifications will be emailed to authors
• Friday 2 August – Edits by authors to be completed
• Friday 2 August – Final acceptance notifications will be disseminated
• Friday 6 Sept – This is the date that authors will need to be registered by to be included in the conference program. 

Please note, the conference scholarships application deadline is May 27, 2019. 

Congratulations

A warm congratulations is extended to following members who were recently awarded  funding by the Australian Research Council:

• Alan Morris et al.: The experience of precarious housing among international students.

Looking for Work Registry

There are many members of TASA who are looking for work, from sessional teaching through to applied consultancy research. We have created this registry to provide a way for our members who are looking for work to connect with people looking to employ sociologists. We also acknowledge many of our members are employed precariously, and we hope this registry might help in building connections and networks towards more stable employment. The registry of sociologists looking for work can be accessed on TASAweb here. 

Post Grad Sub-Committee

Call for New Members

The TASA Postgraduate Portfolio Leader is calling for expressions of interests to join TASA’s Postgraduate Sub-Committee (PGSC) for the 2019-2020 term. This PGSC supports the Postgraduate Portfolio Leader in representing and furthering the interests of TASA’s postgraduate members. The PGSC consists of a maximum of seven members who usually serve a two-year term and meet online approximately three times a year as well as face-to-face at the annual conference.                                                                                                    Expression of interest deadline: TOMORROW Friday December 21. Read on...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Opportunities

New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Policy and Regulatory Aspects of Synthetic Biology. University of Queensland, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, St Lucia. The postdoctoral fellow will undertake a research program that contributes to our understanding of the national and international regulatory contexts in which synthetic biology technologies exist.                                                                                        Application deadline: 4 February, 2019. Read on...

New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Human Rights. University of Queensland, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, St Lucia. The postdoctoral fellow will undertake a research program to develop our understanding and analysis of digital human rights, in both developed and developing country contexts.                                          Application deadline: 4 February, 2019. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

CSIRO, in collaboration with the University of Queensland, is offering 8 PhD scholarships for social researchers in the field of ‘Responsible Innovation’ for projects starting in the first half of 2019. There are projects on diverse topics, some of which might be of specific interest to the social science/development studies community. Specific topics that might be of interest to you include: new personalised foods and impacts for health; social, legal and ethical implications of the digital revolution in agriculture; and the impact of cultural diversity on the development and use of novel biological systems. But there are many more that might also pick your interest.                                                                                If you, or someone you know is looking for a post graduate research opportunity, this could be for you!. Please visit https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/csiro-uq-ri for further details of projects on offer, and for details of how to apply.                                                Applications close 31 January, 2019, with a start date scheduled for April. Please contact Kristen.lyons@uq.edu.au for more information.

Two HDR Scholarships - The Effects of Transnational Mobility on Youth Transition; One PhD will be based at Deakin and supervised by Professor Anita Harris and the other will be based at Western Sydney University and supervised by Dr Shanthi Robertson.​ Both have an extended deadline, see below:

1. EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at Western Sydney University have a scholarship opportunity on a project, 'Youth Mobilities and Digital Lives: Understanding Transnational Mobility's Impacts Through Social Media'. The PhD project will be based at ICS with the opportunity to work with the ICS-based supervisor, Dr Shanthi Robertson, on social media analysis/digital ethnography techniques to understand the impacts of transnational mobility on young people’s social, civic and economic lives.                                                                                            Applications deadline: 31 January, 2019. Read on...

2. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Deakin University have a PhD scholarship opportunity to initiate and conduct research on the topic 'The Effects of Transnational Mobility on Youth Transitions'. We are now offering a scholarship to a highly motivated PhD candidate to work on this project. Applicants are invited to propose a project on any aspect of the impacts of transnational mobility on young people’s social and/or family ties, citizenship and civic lives, and/or economic opportunities and transitions to adulthood. The proposed doctoral project must align with the focus of the YMAP ARC project. This PhD will be based at Deakin and supervised by Professor Anita Harris with external supervision from Prof Baldassar and Dr Robertson.                                                              Application deadline: January 15, 2019. Read on...

Two fully-funded, internationally open PhD opportunities at Deakin University, to study human-animal relations as social in urban India – these are part of an ARC Discovery project ‘Animals and urban planning: Indian cities as Zoöpolises’.                                  Application deadline: 31st January 2019. Read on...

Western Sydney University: Data, Technology and Ethics in Adolescent Health Research. This PhD project will explore young people’s views on how their health data is currently collected and applied, as well as their visions for the future of health in a digital world.
Application deadline: 31 December. Read on...

Western Sydney University:  Socio-cultural Perspectives and Possibilities of Adolescent Health in the Digital Age. This PhD project has a focus on the ways in which gender, ethnicity, sexuality, time, and place inform young people’s perceptions of health, health literacy, help-seeking and access to services. 
Application deadline: 31 December. Read on...

Grant Opportunities

Fellowship Funding

2019 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship                                                     The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)                                                      Application deadline: February 1, 2019. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Dobson, Amy S., Robards, Brady & Carah, Nicholas. Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media: Towards Theorising Public Lives on Private Platforms. Dobson, Amy S., Robards, Brady & Carah, Nicholas (eds.) (2018) Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media. New York: Palgrave. Chapter 1, pp.3-27.

Robards, B., Lincoln, S., Pinkard, B., & Harris, J. (2018) 'Remembering Through Facebook: Mediated Memory and Intimate Digital Traces' in A Dobson, B Robards, N Carah (eds) Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media. New York: Palgrave.

Dobson, Amy Shields (2018) Sexting, Intimate and Sexual Media Practices, and Social Justice. In Dobson, Amy S., Robards, Brady & Carah, Nicholas (eds.) (2018) Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media. New York: Palgrave. Chapter 6, pp. 93-110.

Hook, Genine, (2018) Starting with Mother: Contesting the Gendered Binaries of Care Operating in Higher Education, In, Starting with Gender in International Higher Education Research (1st Edition), Henderson, E., & Nicolazzo, Z.,  Routledge.

Heggart K., Flowers R. (2019) Justice-Oriented, “Thick” Approaches to Civics and Citizenship Education in Australia: Examples of Practice. In: Peterson A., Stahl G., Soong H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

Book Reviews

Ashleigh Watson (2018) Book Review: Les Back and Shamser Sinha, Migrant City​. Journal of Sociology

Steven Roberts (2018) Book Review: Faith Gordon, Children, Young People and the Press in a Transitioning Society​. Journal of Sociology

Journal - Articles

Yolande Strengers (2018) Robotic vacuum cleaners save energy? Raising cleanliness conventions and energy demand in Australian households with smart home technologies. Energy Research & Social Science. Please note: there is free access to this article through to 23 January, 2019 via this link. 

L. Sleep (2018) “Entrapment and institutional collusion: domestic violence police reports and the ‘couple rule’ in social security law”Alternative Law Journal (doi 10.1177/1037969X18796900).

Heggart, K., Flowers, R., Burridge, N., & Arvanitakis, J. (2018). Refreshing critical pedagogy and citizenship education through the lens of justice and complexity pedagogy. Global Studies of Childhood, 8(4), 355-367.

Spina, N. (2018). ‘Once upon a time’: examining ability grouping and differentiation practices in cultures of evidence-based decision-making, Cambridge Journal of Education, doi: 10.1080/0305764X.2018.1533525

Dobson, A.S. & Kanai, A. (e-First Nov 2018).  From “can-do” girls to insecure and frustrated: Affective dissonances in young women’s post-recessional media. Feminist Media Studies.

Mowat, H., Dobson, A.S., McDonald, K., & Kirkman, M. (e-First Nov 2018). “For Myself and Others Like Me”: Women’s Contributions to Vulva-Positive Social Media.  Feminist Media Studies. 

Pennay A, Callinan S, Livingston M, Lubman D, Holmes J, MacLean S, Herring R, Dietze P. (2018) Patterns in Reduction or Cessation of Drinking in Australia (2001-2013) and Motivation for Change. Alcohol and Alcoholism, DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agy07

Rose, J., Low-Choy, S., Singh, P. & Vasco, D. (2018) NAPLAN Discourses: A systematic review after the first decade. Discourse, Studies in Cultural Politics of Education. 

Martinussen, Maree (2018) Reason, Season, or Life? Heterorelationality and the Limits of Intimacy between Women Friends. Sociological Research Online. Article first published online: December 12, 2018.

Rochelle R Côté, Xianbi Huang, Yangtao Huang & Mark Western (2018) Immigrant network diversity in the land of the fair go. Journal of Sociology. Article first published online: December 12, 2018.

Sophie Lewis, Fran Collyer, Karen Willis, Kirsten Harley, Kanchan Marcus, Michael Calnan & Jon Gabe (2018) Healthcare in the news media: The privileging of private over public. Journal of Sociology. 

Rose, J. & Hewitt, B. (2018). Does Part-time Employment Status Really Reduce Time Pressure? Journal of Sociology.  

Alexandra Caruso & Steven Roberts (2018) Exploring constructions of masculinity on a men’s body-positivity blog. Journal of Sociology. 

Theresa Petray & Nick Pendergrast (2018). Challenging power and creating alternatives: Integrationist, anti-systemic and non-hegemonic approaches in Australian socialmovements. Journal of Sociology.

Tang, Shawna & Quah, Sharon Ee Ling. (2017) Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore: the female-headed households of divorced and lesbian mothers. Journal of Sociology. 

Nik Taylor, Zoei Sutton & Rhoda Wilkie (2018) A sociology of multi-species relations. Journal of Sociology. 

Helen Forbes-Mewett & Rebecca Wickes (2018) The neighbourhood context of crime against international students. Journal of Sociology. 

Cary Bennett (2018) Drugs, moral panics and the dispositive. Journal of Sociology. 

Sarah Redshaw & Valerie Ingham (2018) ‘Neighbourhood is if they come out and talk to you’: Neighbourly connections and bonding social capital. Journal of Sociology. 

Laetitia Coles, Belinda Hewitt & Bill Martin (2018) Contemporary fatherhood: Social, demographic and attitudinal factors associated with involved fathering and long work hours. Journal of Sociology. 

Reports

Robinson, C (2018) Outside in: How the youth sector supports the school re-engagement of vulnerable children in Tasmania, Hobart, Anglicare Tasmania.

Informed News & Analysis

Leah Ruppanner, Francisco Perales & Janeen Baxter (17 December, 2018) Having a second child worsens parents’ mental health: new research. The Conversation. 

Judith Bessant (15 December, 2018) Politicians ignore the young at their peril. The Sydney Morning Herald. 

Blogs

Fabian Cannizzo (13 December, 2018) The Cultural Economy of Creative Work. The Social Thinker. 

Podcasts

Nicholas Hookway (13 December, 2018) Australian men are prone to loneliness. Presented as part of Social Sciences Week. ABC Radio, Big Ideas.

Videos

Lesley Pruitt et al. @monash.edu (25 November, 2018) Key Findings on Empowering Young Women's Leadership and Advocacy in Asia and the Pacific. This video is part of the YWCA and Monash Gender, Peace & Security Centre's research project on Mobilising Young Women's Leadership and Advocacy in Asia and the Pacific.

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. 

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. 

Sarah McLean, fellow member, & one of the incoming Editors in Chief of Health Sociology Review, has been promoted to Associate Professor. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Call for Papers

New: Santorini Biennale 4th edition under the artistic theme of “Neighbourhood” that will be presented between 1st June 2019 and 31st July 2021 in 27 cities around the world (Santorini, Beirut, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Detroit, Montreal, Atlanta, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Berlin, Helsinki, Belgrade and Izmir) in cooperation with other biennials, art foundations and municipal art offices.          For full details, see the event website. 

Competition for Early Career Researchers

The Universities Australia Pitch It Clever Competition:  This competition is for early career researchers to pitch their research within a 1 - 2 minute video. A selection of Vice Chancellors judge the entries and there are prizes in cash and prestige for the winners (including a People's Choice Award).                                                                                          Submission deadline: January 24, 2019. Read on...

PhD Summer School and One Day Conference

Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities
24 January 2019 in Sydney, Australia
Hosted by the Community Economies Strategic Initiative, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University                                                                                          Registrations now open.  Read on...

Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology

New: Divorce and children: consequences - perspectives - progress                        16-20 September 2019 The Marie Jahoda Summer School offers highly qualified PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers in sociology and related fields the opportunity to discuss their PhD thesis (or other ongoing projects) with distinguished international scholars in the field, to exchange with other doctoral students and early-career scholars who work on similar topics and to establish networks within the community.                Application deadline: April 30, 2019. Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

New: Aesthetics of Form as Social Philosophy. Re-reading Lukács                      Special issue of: Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge                                                    Submission of abstracts deadline: 31st January 2019. Read on...

Nationalism’s Futures                                                                                                        Sociology Special Issue                                                                                                              Deadline for submission of full papers: 10 June 2019. Read on...                                    For any queries regarding this special issue, please contact: 
Bridget Byrne, Helen Holmes, Vanessa May, Shaminder Takhar.

Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities                                                                  Special issue on Cultural and Social Anthropology                                                                Submission deadline: December 31. Read on...

2019 Special Issue Call for papers: Disability and Children's Rights.                      The Canadian Journal on Children’s Rights (CJCR)                                                       Submissions deadline: April 1, 2019. Read on...

Symposiums

New: Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium 
Monday 28th – Wednesday 30th October 2019                                                                       Hear insights from experts who are working to improve mental health services within rural and remote areas and discover what you can do to provide and advocate for equal mental health care for all Australians                                                                              Submissions deadline: June 28. Read on...

The Ethics of Engagement, Participation and Representation                            TASA Sociology of Youth Thematic Group 2019 Symposium                                        University of Melbourne, 21st February 2019 This one-day symposium offers an opportunity for scholars to present work broadly pertaining to the above provocations. We especially encourage submissions from RHD candidates and ECRs, and are offering four $250 bursaries to postgraduates and unwaged/precariously employed academics living outside of Victoria (to be awarded on the basis of the quality and relevance of their abstracts).                                                                                                              Abstract submission deadline: TOMORROW December 21. Read on...

Rural Issues Symposium - The future of rural sociology in Australia, 2019         La Trobe, Bendigo, Friday 28th June, 2019.                                                                                  Keynote presentations from Professor Barbara Pini, Griffith University and Professor Robyn Eversole, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology. In recognition of the unique social experiences of rural, remote, and regional residents, the symposium aims to bring together students, researchers, applied sociologists, community and social services professionals and academics engaging with a range of issues pertinent to rural, remote and regional Australia.                                                                                                                                            Abstracts and scholarship applications due: Friday 22nd March, 2019. Read on...

Conferences

New: SAANZ Conference 2019 - SAVE THE DATE The Disciplinary Areas of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Auckland will host the 2019 Sociological Association of Aoteroa New Zealand conference. The conference will house a dedicated stream of the Asia-Pacific Science, Technology & Society Network. We also welcome the Gender and Sexuality Group. The conference will be held at the city campus, 3-6 December, 2019. The theme is: Sociology for Everyone. The conference will commence with a pōwhiri (welcome ceremony) at Waipapa marae. The first keynote speaker will be Linda Tuhiwai Smith. There are several more confirmed keynote speakers. Details will follow in the new year.

Political Emotions Conference                                                                              Sociology of Emotions and Effect Thematic Group  conference                                  22 July 2019, Adelaide, Australia                                                                                                  Scholars from any discipline who are thinking about politics and emotions in a social context are invited to send an abstract of 150 words, plus a short biography, to political.emotions@gmail.com by 5pm, Monday 18 February 2019, AEST. Read on...

Education in an Era of Risk - the Role of Educational Research for the Future
ERC: 2 - 3 September 2019, ECER: 3 - 6 September 2019, Universität Hamburg Submissions close: January 31. Read on...

International Conference on Survey Research Methodology                                   8-9 August 2019․Taipei Taiwan                                                                                                Submission deadline: March 5. Read on...

EGOS 2019 Subtheme 54: Exploring the Labour Dimension of Sustainable Organizations: Ideologies, Struggles, Solutions (Markus Helfen, Andreas Pekarek, Rick Delbridge)                                                                                              Continuing the interdisciplinary exchange between the fields of organization studies and employment relations from two preceding EGOS sub-themes in 2017 and 2018, next year's theme concentrates on the ideologies, struggles and solutions around the labour dimension of the sustainable organization. We invite contributions that explore how labour shapes and is shaped by questions of organizational sustainability and what this means for future world(s) of work.                                                                                              Deadline for short paper submissions: January 14, 2019. Read on...

7th International and Interdisciplinary Emotional Geographies Conference      17-19 July 2019                                                                                                                                        Keynote speakers include fellow member, & incoming Applied Sociology Portfolio Leader, Catherine Robinson.                                                                                                 Themed Sessions submission deadline: December 10.                                              Abstract submission deadline: 4 March 2019. Read on...

Illuminating the SOCIAL in Social Problems                                                                 The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)                                                        August 9-11, 2019, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, NY.                                    Submission deadline: January 31, 2019. Read on...

EUROPE AND BEYOND: BOUNDARIES, BARRIERS AND BELONGING
14th ESA Conference, 20-23 August 2019 to be held in Manchester / UK. Read on...

Gift Memberships

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1. First name of gift recipient;
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