Promoting sociology in Australia
Facilitating sociology teaching and research
Enhancing the professional development of TASA members
Promoting sociology in Australia
Facilitating sociology teaching and research
Enhancing the professional development of TASA members
The aims of the Sociology of Health Thematic Group are to:
The Health Section of TASA was first established in 1967. It was known as the Medical Sociology Section, at a time when the national association was known as SAANZ (the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand). It was the first specialty section formed.
The National Convenor is Fran Collyer, (Fran.Collyer@sydney.edu.au) former editor of the Health Sociology Review.
State Convenors:
New South Wales - Michelle Black (mdblack1@optusnet.com.au)
Tasmania - Karen Willis (k.willis@utas.edu.au)
Victoria - Claudia Slegers (claudia.slegers@monash.edu)
New Zealand - Allison Kirkman (allison.kirkman@vuw.ac.nz)
If you have news or information about events in your region or state of interest to other members, please contact your local convenor.
We have vacancies for the other states/territories. If you are interested in convening the group in your area, please contact Fran Collyer (Fran.Collyer@sydney.edu.au)
Health Day 2010. Professor Rick Iedema at the lectern, (front, from left: Professor David Pilgrim, Dr Rowena Forsyth, Professor Stephanie Short and Dr Katherine Carroll
At the TASA Annual Conference in December 2010, we held our annual Health Day at Macquarie University. This was a successful event, with two panel presentations. The first Panel was ‘Doing Sociology With Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities for Research and Teaching’ with speakers:
The second panel was titled ‘Reflections on the Field: The Early Years and Progress in the Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine’. Speakers for this event were:
Thank you to all our speakers and participants, and we look forward to this year’s Health Day.
