| Dear ~~first_name~~,
The registration deadline for TASA Thematic Week presenters has been extended to next Friday October 22nd. To be included in the event program, please be sure to register by that date. Full details about registering for our big week of sociology are available on TASAweb here. Note, you will need to login to TASAweb to receive the member discount. Please contact Sally in TASA Admin if you need login support.
Do you have contact details for Cherie Sutherland, a past Research Fellow at UNSW? A writer from The Australian Women's Weekly is trying to track them down. If you have Cherie's contact details, could you please ask them to email Sally in TASA Admin.
| Workshop Program
Expressions of interest deadline
Monday October 18 | Call for Expressions of Interest - TASA's Workshop Program
Funding of $10,000 is available for two workshops ($5k each).
Submission deadline: THIS MONDAY October 18th via the orange button below. Read on...
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TASA Thursdays Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher session: What is a sociologist anyway? hosted by Laura Simpson Reeves and Jane (Defeng) Jin on behalf of the Postgraduate Sub-Committee, with panellists Dr Zoe Staines (UQ), Dr Rebekah Ramsay (The World Bank) and Dr Andrew Clarke (UQ) – Thursday 4 November, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT, via Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86946559001?pwd=dnZ5VWduWTBzb1cyTW54LzdvOXozZz09. Meeting ID: 869 4655 9001, Passcode: 784151
Lizzie Knight, Victoria University, will be speaking on 'Assumed parenting roles and the systemic gaps in education and justice systems' for TASA Thursdays on November 25th. More details to follow.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Catherine Gomes (2021) Parallel Societies of International Students in Australia: Connections, Disconnections, and a Global Pandemic. Routledge. | Parallel Societies of International Students in Australia explores the social and cultural spaces that international students occupy in destination countries. It specifically examines the connections they make and the significance of this parallel society in helping them become resilient, empowered and self-sufficient. It further explores the way in which international students become disconnected from the family and friends they left behind at home, as well as from local communities.
Drawing on a decade worth of research into the social, cultural, real and digital spaces occupied by international students in Australia, the book also reflects on the biggest challenge humanity has faced in a hundred years; the COVID-19 global pandemic. It considers the impact that the decisions made by the Australian government and international education stakeholders in response to this evolving crisis have had on international students. Read on... | | | Hookway, N. and Woodman, D. (2021, October 5). Generation Solidarity?: The young (and old) Australians who are rejecting age-related stereotypes [Online]. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.doqv9860
Simon Copland (2021) Dark, clear or brackish? Using Reddit to break down the binary of the dark and clear web, Continuum, DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2021.1983255
Marino, S. (2021) “Gettati nel mondo”: il passaggio “dalla pasta alla pavlova” nell’identità etnica degli italo-australiani di origine calabrese in Adelaide, Sud Australia(Thrown into the world: the transition from pasta to pavlova in the ethnic identity of the Italian-Australians of Calabrian origin in Adelaide, South Australia). ROGERIUS (Bulletin of the Institute of the Calabrian Library), 2(1), 36-53.
|  | Sociology in the West
University of Western Australia, Room TBC
November 5, 9AM - 5PM AWST
Hybrid
A better body?: Towards a sociology of wellness
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Hybrid
This event has been postponed and will take place in January or February next year. We will update you when more information becomes available.
Healthy Societies Symposium
The Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies (SCHS) and the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney
November 16, 9:30am - 3:30pm
Hybrid
Applied Sociology Symposium
Co-design and co-production: Challenges and opportunities for sociologists
Sydney, Online
November 17, 11am start (AEST/Qld time)
Guest Speaker - Jayne Malenfant
‘Jayne’s frank and fearless presentation will challenge everything you’ve ever thought about “co-design”- it is not to be missed! With great excitement, we invite sociologists, researchers, peers, consumer representatives, advocacy groups, people with lived experiences involved or interested in research across any topic or discipline to engage in this important discussion about the future of partnership-based research.’
- Dr Sophie Hickey, TASA Applied Sociology convenor
New lives, new research agendas: Sociology beyond the pandemic
La Trobe University, Melbourne
November 18
Hybrid
Art as Resistance: Myanmar Protest Art from the Frontline
University of Sydney
Venue: a Newtown art gallery, a short walk from the University of Sydney.
In-person (recorded)
This event has been postponed and will take place 2022. We will update you when more information becomes available.
Sociology Goes Public
Australian National University, Canberra
Monday November 29
Hybrid
| The deadline for the Thematic Groups Support Scheme Round 2 is 8 November. This scheme offers up to $2,000 funding for events happening during the first half of next year, from 1 January to 30 June 2022. If you have event ideas, we encourage you to share those with the convener/s of the thematic group/s you are a member of.
| New convener term: Nov 2021 - Nov 2023 | The new thematic group convener term is fast approaching (November 2021 - November 2023). If you are interested in convening/co-convening a thematic group, and you haven't reached out to the relevant current convener yet, we encourage you to do so in the next few weeks. If you have any questions, you can contact Ramon, the Thematic Group Portfolio Leader, via thematicgroups@tasa.org.au or Sally in TASA Admin.
| New: Managing the end life cycle of data storage, retrieval and footprints in heaven
with leading Cloud Specialist Alex Breskin
Next Wednesday 20th October, 1:00pm -2:00pm (AEDT)
Password: 751336
Hope and Empathy in Uncertain Times
Online Symposium
28-29 October
Keynote Speakers: fellow members Simone Fullagar and Signe Ravn
The draft program is available here.
| | Journal of Sociology - Volume: 57, Number: 3 (September 2021) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here. | Journal of Sociology - open access articles
| In case you missed it, Journal of Sociology's Volume 56 Issue 1, March 2020, Special issue articles - Asylum Seekers in the Global Context of Xenophobia - are available on open access here.
| Health Sociology Review - Call for Papers: Special Issue
| Sociological Aspects of Knowledge Translation
Special Issue: Issue 1, 2023
This special issue focuses on knowledge translation. Knowledge translation is important, timely, and particularly relevant to the sociology of health, illness, and medicine because:
- The processes through which different knowledges coalesce embody and demonstrate myriad interactions between society and health
- Knowledge translation requires sociologically informed scholarship that accounts for how social interactions and political processes influence health, illness, and medicine
- Indigenous people have emphasised that knowledge translation should be grounded in respect for diverse knowledges and that it should operate relationally, rather than uni-directionally. Further, making knowledge translation foundational to research design and communication provides opportunity to demonstrate respect for Indigenous people’s enduring connections to Country, intergenerational responsibilities and knowledge of communities.
Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2022. Full papers will be due before July 31, 2022. Read on...
| New: Senior Planning, Advocacy and Research Officer
The Bendigo & District Aboriginal Cooperative.
This position will require a high level of research, analytical and writing skills, and as well a sound level of understanding and knowledge of Aboriginal issues and policy.
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Swinburne University, Hawthorn campus
Full time, ongoing position
| There are many members of TASA who are looking for work, from sessional teaching through to applied consultancy research. Our 'Looking for Work' registry is 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.
Note, if you are looking for work you can list yourself in the 'Looking for Work' registry via your membership profile. Click on the Additional Member Data tab and scroll down to the question 'Are you looking for work?' After selecting 'yes' to that question, your details will appear in our publicly searchable 'Find a Sociologist' directory. Please contact TASA Admin if you need assistance adding your details.
If you would like to be spotlighted in our newsletter as someone looking for work, please email TASA Admin, and attach a profile image that can be used in the spotlight and include a bio outlining your location, highest qualification, areas of expertise, the type of work you are looking for, and whether you are in a position to relocate etc.
| The Jobs Board enables you to view current employment opportunities. As a member, you can post opportunities to the Jobs Board directly from within your membership profile screen.
| | | La Trobe University: The Living with Disability Research Centre
Research Training Program (RTP) PhD Scholarship opportunity for an outstanding candidate to explore a disability related topic in a discipline such as social work, disability studies or any other of the social sciences.
PhD scholarship with the Life Patterns research program
University of Melbourne
Current Honours students are encouraged to apply, pending their final results
Nominated co-supervisor: fellow member Jenny Chesters
Youth living with chronicity in the digital age
Sydney Centre for Health Societies at the School of Social and Political Sciences, Sydney University
Chief investigators are fellow members Alex Broom and Katherine Kenny.
ACU IHSS invites PhD candidates in sociology
Australian Catholic University's Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences is seeking outstanding PhD and MPhil applicants in citizenship and nationalism studies; cultural, economic and political sociology; family transition; globalisation; social movements; sociology of emotions; sociology of religion; urban studies and related areas.
PhD scholarship – Social licence and the development of commercial onshore lobster aquaculture in Australia
University of Tasmania
This PhD project will examine how 'social licence' is relevant and can be gained in the development of a commercial onshore lobster aquaculture industry in Australia.
Project supervisor: fellow member Vaughan Higgins
Application deadline: 29 October. Read on...
| | The Scholarships Board enables you to view available scholarships that our members have posted. Like the Jobs Board, as a member, you can post scholarship opportunities directly from within your membership profile screen. | | | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Researchers at the University of Western Australia and the Telethon Kids Institute are looking for participants in Western Australia to help them learn more about attitudes and access to COVID-19 vaccination, as well as their thoughts on the roll-out and government mandates. Participating in an interview as part of the Coronavax Project will ensure that your voice is heard during the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine program. We are especially looking for people who are:
- Dads of kids under 5
- Pregnant
- Childcare workers
- Teachers
- Aged care workers
For details and to sign up to participate, click here.
| The Australian Death Studies Society (ADSS)
Three Prizes are open for submissions:
- Best Student Paper
- Dissertation
- Creative Work.
The Australian Death Studies Society was founded in 2020 and aims to foster the development of high quality scholarship about dying, death, and body disposal within Australia. The subject matter of death touches all aspects of human experience, and this is reflected in the multidisciplinary nature of our membership. The ADSS welcome submissions for the above 3 prizes from scholars of diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
| 2021 Isaac Industrial Relations Symposium
Transnational Industrial Democracy: Towards a New Paradigm of Labour Governance in Global Supply Chains
University of Melbourne
6pm - 7:30pm, TODAY 14 October (via Zoom)
| Mummy was Busy: Leunig’s Cartoon and the Fracking of Attention under Lockdown
Child Psychoanalytic Association of Australia
Online, next Tuesday October 19
Speaker: fellow member Petra Bueskins
| Call for Papers - Journal
| Research in the Sociology of Work: New editorial team and Call for papers
Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) publishes research that examines current issues related to the nature of work, the places and spaces of work, and the experiences of workers and examines the forces that shape the context of work. The incoming editorial team of Rick Delbridge (Cardiff), Andi Pekarek (University of Melbourne), Gretchen Purser (Syracuse), and Markus Helfen (FU Berlin) are pleased to announce a call for papers on ‘Ethnographies of work’.
Critical Refugee Intersections: Before, During, and After Flight
Editor(s): Niro Kandasamy (University of Sydney, Australia), Lauren Avery (University of York, UK) and Karen Soldatic (Western Sydney University, Australia)
This thematic issue is the result of Social Inclusion’s partnership with research network (In)Justice International,
Abstract submission deadline: December 15. Read on...
| Call for Chapter Proposals
| Call for Chapter Proposals
Expanded Edition of How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond “Themes Emerged”
Proposal submission deadline: December 31. Read on...
| New: Gender/Sexuality/Culture Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series
‘What had become of me?’: Liminal Whiteness in Early US Male Citizenship Hannah Lauren Murray, University of Liverpool
Hannah Lauren Murray, University of Liverpool
Thursday 28 October, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM AEDT (via zoom)
The Disaffection Seminar Series
Seminar 3 - Conspiracy, Alienation and Anxiety in Crises
TODAY 14 Oct 2021 17:00 AEDT
Seminar 4 - Aesthetics & Disaffection: French Algeria to Japan
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:00 AEDT
Seminar 5 - Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:00 AEDT
For details about the seminars, click here.
| Call for Submissions -Zine
| So Fi Zine edition #10
Another call for submissions for So Fi Zine is live! It’s a special milestone: the tenth edition of the zine.
| Building Equality and Justice Now
The British Sociological Association Virtual Annual Conference 2022
20-22 April
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 29 October. Read on...
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Global Crises, Alternative Futures
Hong Kong Sociological Association (HKSA)
8 January 2022, hybrid
Submission deadline: TOMORROW October 15. Read on...
Work-Family Justice: Practices, Partnerships & Possibilities
Work and Family Researchers Network
June 23-25, 2022, New York City
Labour Movements in a Post COVID-19 World
The International Sociological Association (ISA)’s Research Committee on Labour Movements (RC44)
Asia-Pacific regional conference
27–29 June 2022
Abstract and Panel Proposals due: 15 November. Read on...
Conflict, Confinement and Immorality
(In)Justice International
Taiwan, 22nd - 25th March, 2022
Abstract submission deadline extended: November 10. Read on...
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