The Australian Sociological Association: Members' Newsletter
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Happy Social Sciences Week! You can check out TASA President Dan Woodman talking about the Social Sciences in the below vimeo.
Nick Hookway, our Public Engagement Portfolio Leader, is shown below spruiking one of TASA's Social Sciences Week events, 'Will you get off that thing!! Screen-time, learning and cyber-safety'. The event is tonight at the University of Tasmania's Sandy Bay campus. Read on...
Congratulations
Our warm congratulations is extended to fellow member Marika Franklin, La Trobe, who has just been awarded her PhD: Towards a Socially Situated Understanding of Self-Management Support and Goals for People Living with Chronic Conditions. Marika's Supervisors were Karen Willis, Sophie Lewis and Annie Venville.
Our warm congratulations are also extended to TASA Treasurer Peta Cook for making it into the Semi-Finals in the Heather & Christopher Chong Outstanding Achiever Award which forms part of the 2019 Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards.
Employment Opportunities
Research Fellow (Level B) in Migration, Diversity and Inclusion Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre, Monash University, Clayton campus Applications close October 2. Read on...
Visiting Professor in Australian Studies 2020-21 or 2021-22 (two terms) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo Application deadline: 5pm on 18 October . Read on...
The Institute for Culture and Society and the Young and Resilient Strategic Research Initiative have identified key research areas where Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellows could join the Institute and work with them. Applications close 8:30pm (AEST), 22 September. Read on...
Research Fellow – Digital Energy Futures Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow – Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
Project Officer – Digital Energy Futures Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
PhD Scholarship Opportunities
New: Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World A PhD scholarship opportunity is for a 3 year project attached to ARC Discovery. The opportunity is for a domestic student who would be able to commence in January 2020. They will be located in Sydney, and supervised by Dr Amelia Johns (UTS, School of Communication). Applications close November 1st. Read on...
New: Interdisciplinary PhDs working on 'The biosocial shaping of conservation and biodiversity practices in Australia’s capital'. Supported by CPAS, Sociology and Fenner. Interested individuals are invited to submit an expression of interest to Associate Professor Gavin Smith (gavin. smith@anu.edu.au; 02 6125 0323) by October 1. Read on...
Empowerment Approaches for People Seeking Asylum and Refugees This scholarship is offered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute in partnership with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
University of Melbourne
Application Deadline: Friday 27 September. Read on...
Empowerment Approaches for People Seeking Asylum and Refugees This scholarship is offered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute in partnership with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
University of Melbourne
Application Deadline: Friday 27 September. Read on...
2 x PhD Scholarships – Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Caulfield Applications close: September 17. Read on...
Indigenous Land & Justice Research Hub PhD scholarship University of Technology, Sydney Application deadline: September 30. Read on...
Spotlight
Sociologist looking for work
Janice Ollerton
Janice Ollerton has almost 40 years experience working in the employment assistance industry, specifically in the field of disabilities since 1997, Janice is keenly interested in intersectional disadvantage and barriers to social inclusion. Janice works part time as Research Coordinator for a Disability Service, holds an adjunct Senior Lecturer position with UNSW and undertakes independent research when funds become available. Located in regional NSW Janice is also a Sessional Lecturer for CSU.
Janice's areas of expertise include Criminology, Deviance & Social Control, Critical Disability Studies & Health. She is highly skilled with work experience in many areas including marking, research assistance & consultancy. Janice is looking for work in unit coordinaton, teaching (lectures, tutorials, seminars,) marking & qualitative research. You can contact Janice via email: j.ollerton@unsw.edu.au
Note: the Looking for Work registry is there to help sociologists looking for work but it is also there to assist those looking to employ a sociologist. The registry of members can be accessed on TASAweb here. If you would like to add yourself to the registry, please click here. If you are currently listed on the registry and no longer need to be, please remove yourself or contact TASA Admin to be removed.
Journal of Sociology (JoS)
Editors-in-Chief
Meet Kate Huppatz (University of Western Sydney) and Steve Matthewman (University of Auckland). Among many things, Kate and Steve are our Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Sociology with 2019 being their 3rd year in this role.
You can follow Kate on Twitter: @Kate_Huppatz
The Journal of Sociology strives to publish original, high quality sociological scholarship in all its forms. You can read more about the journal here.
If you haven't met Kate and Steve yet, you can meet them at TASA 2019 in November, Sydney. As the President of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ), Steve would also be happy to see you at the SAANZ conference, which is the week after TASA 2019.
Meet Teaching Sociology Thematic Group Convener Louise St Guillaume
If you haven't met Louise yet, you will be able to meet her at TASA 2019 in November, Sydney. In the meantime, you can follow Louise on Twitter: @lstguillaume
Louise St Guillaume is Discipline Coordinator of Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences at The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) (Sydney campus).
In 2015 Dr St Guillaume completed her PhD in the discipline of Sociology at UNDA (Sydney campus). Her PhD, 'The Same but Different', examined how people with a partial capacity to work are governed in policy changes to the income support system and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Her current research interests include disability, income support, asylum and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social policy in Australia.
Nexus
Volume 31, Issue 2 is now available. This edition of Nexus reports on a number of TASA’s Thematic Group events. Michell Peterie and Deb King report on the Sociology of Emotions and Affect TG’s recent “Political emotions” conference. Part 2 of the report by postgraduates Phillipa Bellemore and Bircan Ciytak concludes by stating “We left this conference feeling nourished, hopeful and inspired …”. Read on...
Book Reviews
Journal Articles
Brady, Michelle. "Conceptualizing Activation Policies Targeted at Single Mothers: A Case Study of Australia and the United Kingdom." Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxz019
Michael Walsh, Raechel Johns & Naomi Dale (2019) The social media tourist gaze: social media photography and its disruption at the zoo, Information technology and Tourism. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40558-019-00151-4
Leahy, Angela. “Natural Law as Early Social Thought: The Recovery of Natural Law for Sociology.” History of the Human Sciences, (September 2019). doi:10.1177/0952695119865134.
Steven Baker, Jenny Waycott, Elena Robertson, Romina Carrasco, Barbara Barbosa Neves, Ralph Hampson, & Frank Vetere (2019) Evaluating the use of interactive virtual reality technology with older adults living in residential aged care. Information, Processing and Management.
Informed News & Analysis
Andrew Glover & Tania Lewis (September 12, 2019) Fancy an e-change? How people are escaping city congestion and living costs by working remotely. The Conversation.
Donna Bridges (September 10, 2019) More women in trades could be the solution to the skills shortage, study finds. ABC News.
James Arvanitakis (September 7, 2019) Arvanitakis on American politics. Open Forum.
Blogs
Deborah Lupton (September 11, 2019) Vitalities Lab Newsletter Number 5. This Sociological Life
Deborah Lupton (September 11, 2019) Algorithmic Micropolitics – a zine-making workshop. This Sociological Life
Alan Scott (August 31, 2019) Social Change.
Podcasts
Exploring Violence and Society podcast - Host: Ben Lohmeyer
Episode 5 – Youth Violence: Centrelink, symbolic violence and cultural narratives with Dr Kirsten Macaitis (Tabor, College of Higher Education)
A conversation exploring the systemic violence to young people that produces violence by young people.
Health Sociology Review
2021 Special Issue - Call for Expressions of Interest
Health Sociology Review (HSR) is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness and medicine. We encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues within their field of expertise. Note, those who have previously submitted an expression of interest are welcome to submit again for this call. W Proposal submission deadline: October 4. Read on...
2020 Special Issue - call for papers
Sex, Health & Technology Special Issue The Role of Bio-medical, Bio-mechanical, and Bio-digital Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Intimacy. Full papers due: January 17th 2020. Read on...
Members on the Move
Changing jobs, department or location? Let us know and we will list the details here.
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.
Deborah Lupton: Keynote at the 5th Australian Food, Society and Culture Network Symposium - Data, Diets, Digitalism: Emergent Food Research Methodologies, Sydney, 15 November 2019
Deborah Lupton:Keynote at the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, Sydney, 7 December 2019
Members' 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.
Thematic Groups
TASA Health Day
Data, Technology and Sociology in the Age of Digital Health Keynote speaker: Professor Alan Peterson, Monash University Keynote workshop: Professor Deborah Lupton, UNSW Sydney November 29, University of Western Sydney Registration deadline: November 22. Read on...
NextGen Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Symposium
A one-day research symposium. Thursday, 3 October, 8.30am-4.30pm Immigration Museum, Melbourne. NextGen MEM offers postgraduate students and early career researchers the opportunity to engage with contemporary migration and inclusion challenges as they set out to become the next generation of migration ethnicity and multiculturalism scholars, policy influencers, and practitioners. For full event details, please read on...
Genders & Sexualities Thematic Group SSW events
Critical Femininities Keynote Public Lecture - Dr Amy Shields Dobson (Curtain University) TODAY 6:00pm-7:00pm, September 12th, University of Melbourne, Parkville Several feminist scholars have recently suggested the importance of playfulness, creative, imaginative, and artistic interventions and activism in response to the neoliberal political and academic pressures of the current moment. This talk explores some critical examples of playfully-seriously imagining lives otherwise, and some emergent tensions around femininities and rage. Registration free but essential. Read on...
Rethinking Critical Femininities: Feeling, Feminist Practice and Beyond TOMORROW 8:00am - 6pm, Friday September 13th, University of Melbourne, Parkville This one day symposium aims to push beyond the diagnosis of femininities in terms of neoliberal individuality, to attend critically to assemblages of transformations in everyday practices, embodiments, and affects of femininities. What femininities arise in relation to contemporary feminist contexts, and what are the shifting relationships between femininities and feminist practice today? Registration is free but essential. Read on...
TASA Public Forum
Will you get off that thing!! Screen-time, learning and cyber-safety It’s the dilemma facing every parent, and is being called a crisis by some. How much screen-time is too much? What impact is it having on learning and development? How accurate and balanced is the information our kids are receiving? And how safe are the platforms they use? But is there another side to the story? Can those evil screens be harnessed for educational purposes? And aren’t they preparing our digital native kids for the real world? TODAY September 12, 5:30pm, Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay Campus, Hobart. Read on...
Practicing action research – Reflecting on generating a new ‘full cycle’ social science
Presenter: Fellow member Yoland Wadsworth Presenting highlights from four decades of the social science career of Yoland, author of Australia’s best-selling research and evaluation books Do It Yourself Social Research and Everyday Evaluation on the Run – with customary engaging style (and cartoons!). Yoland will show how these many years of practice-based co-inquiry culminated in a cutting-edge transdisciplinary theory for Building in Research and Evaluation: Human Inquiry for Living Systems. TODAY September 12, 1:15pm, Melbourne. Read on...
My School, Your School, Our Schools: A Sociology of Education Summit
Other Events, News & Opportunities
2021 Journal of Sociology - Special Issue
Call for Papers
Imagining rural futures in times of uncertainty and possibility: Progressing a transformative research agenda for rural sociology. This Special Edition offers a critical opportunity to imagine the futures of rural societies and rural sociology at a time when, across the world, there has been an awakening of diverse publics to the reality that current and historical social and economic structures are leading to the demise of planetary health and human survival. Read on...
Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for its 2020-2021 Early Career Work and Family Fellowships. To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorate in 2016 or later and have yet to progress into tenured or secure senior level positions. The deadline for applications is October 1. Read on...
Symposiums
Capabilities and Capitals: Implications for Students’ Persistence and Success at University November 21 - 22, University of Wollongong Fellow member Dina Bowman is one of the speakers. Registration is free but essential. Read on...
Conversations
Shifting paradigms: Conversations on developing a transformative agenda for future mental health research, policy and practice Join in on an afternoon of stimulating conversation on approaches to meaningful engagement with experts by experience to transform the agenda for mental health research, policy and practice. 10th October, 4 – 5.30 pm, RMIT University (City Campus) This event is free but registration is essential. Read on...
HDR Workshop
Researching New Religions: Qualitative Methods in a Controversial Field September 19, 1pm - 4pm Western Sydney University, Liverpool campus Guest instructor, Susan J. Palmer RSVPs essential due to limited spaces to Jennifer Cheng by TOMORROW 13 September. Read on...
Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities: PhD Short Course
Hosted by the Community Economies Strategic Initiative, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University 15-17, 20-22 January 2020, Parramatta City Campus, Western Sydney University, Sydney Registration deadline: September 27. Read on...
Study Group
Tensions at the front line of risk work: implications for policy and practice A BSA Risk and Society Study Group Event 9 – 10 December 2019
BSA London Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf , London. Submission deadline: September 20. Read on...
Public Lectures
10th Annual South Australian Women's Studies and Gender Studies Public Lecture: The Financial Future of Older Women in Australia: Beyond Poverty, Pity and Parity. Professor Kathleen Riach (Monash University) will move beyond the well-known statistical accounts of gender and ageing to explore the complex cultural, structural and political reasons why women continue to become unequal and forgotten members of our society as they grow older. Thursday 19 September, 5.30 - 7.00pm, Flinders at Victoria Square, Adelaide This is a free event but there are limited places. For full details and to register, read on...
Minors in Minority Religions: The Delicate Balance between Religious Freedom and the Well-being of the Child Western Sydney University, Liverpool City Campus Tuesday, September 17, 13:00-15:00 Speaker: Dr Susan J. Palmer (School of Religious Studies, McGill University) RSVP: By TOMORROW September 13 to Alan Nixon. Read on...
Seminars
Trust, Young People and Digital Media 4th Annual Meeting of the Young Creative Connected (YCC) Research Network 30 September to 1 October, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland There is no fee to participate in this seminar, and lunches will be provided. There are a limited number of registrations though. If you are interested in attending, please contact Michael Dezuanni.
Conferences
New: Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Strengthening Science and Collaboration Work and Family Researchers Network Conference June 24-27, 2020, New York Midtown Manhattan Hilton Submission deadline: November 11. Read on...
New: Transforming Contexts, Transforming Selves: Gender in New Times Gender Work and Organization conference 24-26 June 2020
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Abstract submission deadline: November 1. Read on...
Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 14- 18 July 2020 Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...
Islam and Society: Challenges and Prospects. AAIMS Second Conference on the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies September 30th- October 1st, Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus. Read on...
Dr Rose Butler (Deakin University) and Dr Victoria Stead (Deakin University) are hosting a session on the theme: ‘Locals’, ‘newcomers’ and relations of belonging in the rural Global North’ at the 2020 XV World Congress of Rural Sociology in Cairns next year. Further details about the session and abstract submission details (closing Sept 27, 2019) are available here: http://www.irsa2020.com/program/session-themes/
2019 AASR Conference: Religion and Violence 4-6 December 2019, Sydney city campus, University of Newcastle The 2019 AASR Conference will be held from 5-6 December and include a free full day workshop for postgraduates and early career researchers on 4 December. Four postgraduate bursaries are offered (worth $500 each). Application deadline:30 September 2019. Early bird conference registration ends 30 September 2019; last day to register 27 November 2019. This conference is co-hosted by the AASR and the University of Newcastle's Centre for the Study of Violence and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. More info: https://www.aasr.org.au/2019-conference1
New: Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times September 27-28, Berlin (The event will also be recorded and streamed) For the full details, read on...
Beyond the quick fix: migration, multi- and interculturalism in regional and rural Australia One-day inter-disciplinary Symposium, Tuesday 12th November, La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo Regional Migration and Multiculturalism research cluster at La Trobe University Submission deadline: TOMORROW September 13. Read on...
Re-creating Landscape and Culture in a Time of Global Change International Association for Society and Natural Resources Cairns, Australia, June 23-26, 2020. Read on...
Activism at the Margins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change 10 - 12 February 2020 RMIT University, Melbourne Abstract Submission deadline: October 1. Read on...
Rural sustainability in the urban century XV World Congress of Rural Sociology 8-12 July 2020, Cairns, Australia Submission deadline: September 27. Read on...
SAANZ Conference 2019 - Sociology for Everyone. University of Auckland, 3-6 December SAANZ has 5 great keynotes lined up for this year’s conference, including our very own Raewyn Connell, and they are pleased to announce a sixth: Professor Roger Burrows. Futher details are available here. Abstract submission closes September 20th (and early bird rego runs until October 4: TASA members pay the SAANZ member rate). Submission deadline: 5pm September 20. Read on...
ISA Research Committee 22 (An international scholarly organization for the Sociology of Religion) IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 14- 18 July 2020 Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...
The 28th American Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference ‘Masculinities in Transition.’ 19-22 March 2020. Greeley, Colorado, USA. Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2019. Read on...
Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Strengthening Science and Collaboration June 25-27, 2020, New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. Submission deadline: November 1. Read on...
Data Futures Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
30 September, 9 am – 5 pm, followed by drinks and the launch of the SAM Media Futures Lab. Read on...
TASA Documents and Policies
You can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures & TASA's History, via TASAweb here.
Accessing Online Materials
From March last year, the list of available Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals jumped from 36 to 91 peer-reviewed journals encompassing over 63,000 articles.
To access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, please click here for instructions, if needed.
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:
- First name of gift recipient;
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- the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
- the cost of the membership; and
- 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.
Newsletter Submissions
We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced) for the next newsletter, to the TASA Office. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning.
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The theme of the forthcoming Congress (July 2022) is Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies. We welcome, and encourage, you to spread the word using this flyer.
The International Sociological Association has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the global database of sociologists.
GMSSI aims to identify, connect, and enable global collaborations in sociology, and support sociologists who encounter multiple barriers, economic and political, which impede participation in global exchanges.
GMSSI aims to increase the visibility of sociologists and their knowledge production and also be an important resource for sustained interaction with the media on a range of issues.
Your participation is important to the success of GMSSI in building this global sociological community.
To start: Go to https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/gmssi/callforparticipants.cgi where ISA briefly explain what the site is about and where there is a link to sign in or sign up. You do not need to be an ISA member to be listed on the GMSSI
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