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If you’re planning to present at TASA 2025 this November, a friendly heads-up that early bird/presenter registration closes on June 28th. Registering by this date ensures your spot in the program.
We’d also like to gently nudge you toward our 2025 Biennial Membership Survey. We know you're busy, but with just 4% of members responding so far, we’re keen to hear more voices. Your input helps shape the future of TASA - from what we do well to what we could be doing better as well as what you would like to see us doing. If you can spare a few minutes, we’d be so grateful if you could click the orange survey button below and share your thoughts.
- Insider Research: Navigating the Personal and the Professional - a rich postgraduate discussion on doing research within your own communities. Watch it here.
- Reimagining Menopause: Mobilising Radical Imaginaries Across Social, Creative and Clinical Domains - an inspiring dive into ageing, wellbeing, and intersectional sociologies. Watch it here.
And don’t forget — today at 12:30pm AEST, we’re live with another TASA Thursdays session: Sociology of Music in Action - join us to explore the rhythms of research, practice, and performance (see access details further down).
We invite you to scroll on for all the latest updates, opportunities, and publications from across our vibrant sociology community.
| | Welcoming our new Members
| TASA is powered by its members, and every new member brings something unique to our collective. This week, we’re excited to welcome those who’ve recently joined us. Welcome:
- Fung Pak Lai
- Nell Whittaker
- Ruby Sciberras
- Carmel Goulding
- Saambaviy Sivaji
- Alfiya K Jose
- Monica Nelson
- Georgia Munro-Cook
Thanks for being part of the journey, we’re so glad to have you on board!
| TASA Thursdays Sociology of Music in Action
TODAY Thursday 29 May | 🕧 12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST | 📍 Zoom | 🎟 Free
Join us as we spotlight exciting new research from the Sociology of Music Thematic Group. Explore the impact of ‘stadiumism’ on regional musicians with fellow member Christine Bosworth, and uncover gendered utopias in DIY music scenes with fellow member Hannah Fairlamb. Don’t miss this fascinating dive into how music, place, and identity intersect in contemporary sociological research.
Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 874 0608 1464 Passcode: 559169 | | | TASA Thursdays Sport, Healing and Social Justice
Thursday 19 June | 🕧 12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST | 📍 Zoom | 🎟 Free
Drawing on the recent TASA funded Garry Bouma Memorial Workshop, this thought-provoking event will explore sport as both a site of wellbeing and harm, highlighting trauma-informed and decolonising approaches to equity in sport.
Join fellow members Adele Pavlidis, Simone Fullagar, and colleague Diti Bhattacharya, discussing sport and mental health, and unpacking how research, policy and practice can support safe, inclusive participation in sport.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER | | | SAVE THE DATE - July 24
TASA Thursdays - Applying Social Research for Policy Impact
Join fellow member Andrew Clarke for an engaging talk on applying social research to real-world housing and welfare challenges. Drawing on his work in homelessness, social housing, and urban governance, Andrew will share how he balances theory and practice, engages diverse stakeholders, and contributes to public debate on pressing policy problems. Ideal for postgrads and early career researchers interested in creating policy impact. | Drysdale, K. (2025). “Drag Kings”. In Christy E Newman and Rob Cover (eds), Encyclopedia of Queer Studies (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series), Elgar Press, pp 106-108. ISBN: 9781803922096
| Shiva Chandra, Alex Broom, Damien Ridge, Katherine Kenny, Michelle Peterie, Jennifer Broom, Bridget Haire, Lise Lafferty, Carla Treloar, Stephanie Raymond, Catriona Bradshaw, Tanya Applegate, Rebecca Guy (2025) GBTQ+ safe sex entanglements: Finding the bacterial in the age of resistant STIs and prevention innovation, Social Science & Medicine
Drysdale K, Creagh NS, Nightingale C, Whop LJ, Kelly-Hanku A (2025). “Beyond words: operationalizing inclusive language in Australian cervical screening health promotion policy”, Health Promotion International, Volume 40, Issue 3, June 2025, daaf058. [online 21 May]. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf058 [open access].
Coffey, J., Dobson, A., Kanai, A., Gill, R., & White, N. (2025). Cinch, filter, erase: Virtual bodies and the editable self. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251336430 [open access].
Hamilton, S., Jones, L., Penny, M., Pell, C., Maslen, S., Michie, C., Mutch, R., O’Donnell, M., Shepherd, C. and Farrant, B. (2025), Culture, Connection and Care: The Role of Institutional Justice Capital for Enhancing the Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children in Out-Of-Home Care. Australian Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70011 [open access].
Maslen, S. (2025). Cultivating the Adventuring Body: How Novices Are Called into Relation with the Landscape, Experienced Others, and Themselves. Body & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X251322079 [open access].
| | The call for expressions of interest for our 2026 Gary Bouma Workshop Program is now open. TASA can fund up to two workshops at AU$5000.00 each.
Successful workshops will advance research within sociology and showcase TASA as the face of sociological/interdisciplinary research in the region; engaging with issues of national concern; advancement of knowledge; support innovative ideas, and, the potential of feeding into policy and practice development.
Expression of interest deadline: July 14th.
| | | TASA Awards currently open for nominations include:
Nominations for these four awards close on 17 July.
Nominees will be notified of the outcome in August (for most awards) and October (for the JMA). Award recipients will be formally announced at our TASA 2025 Conference Dinner in November.
| Contesting Military Identities
Monday 22nd September
TASA's Cultural Sociology Thematic Group in conjunction with UniSA, Flinders University and the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group are hosting a 1-day conference in Adelaide and online around the theme of Contesting Military Identities.
Abstract submission deadline: July 1st. Read on... | Casual Project Officer Role- ARC project on youth mobilities
Applications are invited for an exciting opportunity to join a major research study in youth mobility and migration studies. This is a casual research administration position (approximately 7 hours per week) based at Deakin University.
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies
La Trobe University, Bundoora campus
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences seeks to appoint an outstanding academic to a continuing full-time position as either Lecturer (Level B) or Senior Lecturer (Level C) in Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity Studies. This role encompasses Teaching, Research and Academic service.
| | Scholarship Opportunities
| Tackling the consumption of sexual violence on screen
PhD Scholarship, Flinders University
The full-time PhD candidate may be based in Adelaide or elsewhere in Australia – relocation to Adelaide is not required. The project will involve some domestic and international travel.
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) May Newsletter
In case you are not aware, TASA members' open access journal article publications submitted for this newsletter also get published in the monthly CHASS newsletter. Depending on the timing, we also promote the events and job/scholarship opportunities, you share with us, via their newsletter too.
You can access the May CHASS newsletter here.
| Awards - Early Career Research
| Paul Bourke Awards
The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research honour Australians in the early part of their career who have achieved excellence in scholarship in one or more fields of the social sciences.
| Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World report launch
In-person, TODAY Thursday, 29 May, 5pm - 7pm AEST, Sydney
Launch of the final report on the 'Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World' project, funded by the Australian Research Council. After the main event food and drinks will be served. All welcome, but registration is essential.
| Re-examining Norms of Good Citizenship When Democratic Values are Under Threat
Special Issue in Political Psychology
This Special Issue aims to bring together normative and empirical approaches on
citizenship, ‘good citizenship’ and norms of ‘good citizenship’ in order to facilitate a
cross-disciplinary dialogue that spans temporal and geographic boundaries. It
welcomes studies of liberal democracies, regions with colonial legacies and countries
with fragile institutions.
Abstract submission deadline: July 15th. Read on... | Call For Papers: Researching Migration Studies: A Symposium on Methodologies
This one-day symposium aims to foster mentorship and collaboration between senior scholars, early career researchers (ECRs) and PhD students in the field of migration studies. PhD students and Early Career Researchers are cordially invited to submit expressions of interest.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 13th June. Read on....
| Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ)
The SDS Board of Directors seeks to appoint a new editor or editorial team for a term of four [2025-2029] years, ideally beginning on November 1, 2025 and ending April 1, 2029. This period includes a 6-month onboarding process under the current editorial team and a 6-month offboarding period with new editors appointed in 2028. The editor or editorial team will work with SDS and the DSQ Editorial Board, and collaborate with The Ohio State University Libraries team. The editor or editorial team will be responsible for putting together a new editorial board under their direction and with input from the SDS Board of Directors.
Expression of interest deadline: August 1st. Read on...
| Forrest Research Foundation Scholarships 2026
The Forrest Fellowships aim to attract early-career researchers from around the world to work in Perth, Western Australia. Applicants should be leading their field of research and be driven by a desire to solve the world’s grand challenges. The Fellowships are aimed at those who have completed their PhD in the last two years (conferred from 1 January 2023) or who will complete it in 2025.
The Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnership Program (JFIPP Research Fellowship)
The Research Fellowship is designed to promote international research and collaborative activities on common policy issues that require cooperation and engagement within and beyond the Indo-Pacific region, with the purpose of building partnerships and intellectual networks in the Indo-Pacific region.
| | New: Queer Temporalities
Online and in-person at Macquarie University 1-3 October
Exploring the theories and possibilities of queer lives unbeholden to normative narratives of time, memory, success, love, happiness, and family.
| | | Music and Mediation
Hybrid, 9-10 June, The University of Adelaide
Mediation, in all its possible senses, from transmission to conflict resolution, is particularly relevant in times of technological innovation, sustainability challenges, forced displacement and struggles for equality or survival. This conference, generously supported by the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), is concerned with the ways music and the study of music contribute to the many theories and practices around mediation.
The following TASA members are presenting: Devpriya Chakravarty, Penelope Bergen, Vanessa McDermott, Christie Bosworth, and Carl Anacin
Note, the event is free for unsalaried and online delegates
The Western Sydney University Challenging Racism Project (CRP) and University of Melbourne Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative (ARHRI) are holding a cross-disciplinary one-day conference
Friday November 7th, Western Sydney University, Parramatta City campus
The conference will be free to attend.
This event will bring together researchers and practitioners who are undertaking work related to anti-racism. This will be an opportunity for us all to learn more about each other’s work, build networks, and explore the potential for future collaborations.
Abstract submission deadline: August 1st. Read on...
Development in Turbulent Time
20th Annual International & Interdisciplinary Conference of International Partners
University Luigj Gurakuqi Shkoder, ALBANIA
14-15 November 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 14 September. Read on...
Centering Care Across the Life Course
SAVE THE DATE
Concordia University in Montreal Canada
June 17-20, 2026
Submissions open in July and close November 1, 2025.
Caring During Crisis: Navigating Risk and Uncertainty in Health, Care and Beyond
European Sociological Association, Research Network 22 (Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty).
Wednesday 29 - 30 October
Campus Woudestein, Rotterdam
Keynote speakers include fellow member Jens Zinn
Abstract submission deadline: May 31st. Read on...
| New: Queer Temporalities
Online and in-person at Macquarie University 1-3 October
Exploring the theories and possibilities of queer lives unbeholden to normative narratives of time, memory, success, love, happiness, and family.
Abstract submission deadline: June 8th. read on...
| | | | Senses & Emotions
Online, October 4th & 5th
Sociologists have long understood that the social world it not a solely rational place: it is messy, it is interactional and it is felt. Emotion management has a key role in supporting both work done to nonhuman animals (e.g. animal testing, fHarming, slaughter), and for nonhuman animals (e.g. activism, caretaking, critical animal research).
Submission deadline: May 31st. Read on...
| | |  |  | The Jobs & Scholarships Board allows you to view opportunities that TASA Admin and fellow members have posted.
In 4 easy steps, you can upload job & scholarship opportunities from your member's profile screen. For instructions, visit here.
The Jobs & Scholarships Board is a public facing searchable feature of TASAweb.
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 | TASA’s Executive Committee (EC) governs the Association and manages its daily business as outlined in the Constitution and by established policies. A call for nominations for the 2027 – 2028 Executive term will be disseminated on July 1, 2026.
The November 2024 - November 2026 Executive Team can be viewed on TASAweb here.
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For the 50th anniversary celebrations in 2013, pages on TASA's history were added to TASAweb.
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