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As we close another successful Social Sciences Week in 2025, we take a moment to reflect on the achievements and contributions across our disciplines. Coincidentally, the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced this year’s prizes recognising excellence in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Details can be found below.
CHASS is also calling for nominations to its Board, providing an opportunity for leadership and representation within our broader community.
Finally, we are pleased to share that TASA member Raewyn Connell was recently interviewed by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Matt Wade, highlighting the continuing relevance of sociology to public debates.
| | Decentring migration scholars, centring paradoxes: Autoethnography as resistance.
Join Dr Sylvia Ang (Monash University) as she explores how paradox-embracing autoethnography—by foregrounding migrant positionality and emotional narrative—challenges colonial binaries and offers a decolonial pathway toward wholeness.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 25 September 2025,
Time: 12:30 PM–1:30 PM (AEDT)
Format: Zoom
Cost: Free
| | | | TASA 2025 Conference Program is now live!
This year, we’re excited to launch our new interactive online program, making it easier than ever to plan your conference experience.
Search by day, track, thematic group, workshop, social function, or keynote, and even download a personalised program containing only the sessions you wish to attend.
Start exploring here:
| | | | Contesting Military Identities
Hosted by TASA’s Cultural Sociology Group with UniSA, Flinders, and the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group, this one-day event explores evolving military cultures—through gender, veterans’ pre-/post-service experiences, reconciliation, trauma, and diverse identities.
Featuring expert panels, a report launch, and a networking reception. Registration is now open – don’t miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge sociological insights.
Event Details
Date: Monday 22 September 2025,
Time: 8:30 AM–5:30 PM ACST
Location: in-person in Adelaide and online
Cost: Complimentary
| | | | Non‑religion, Spirituality & Secularism in Public
Hosted by TASA’s Sociology of Religion Thematic Group, this one-day symposium explores Australia’s rising 'nones' (38.9% of the population in 2021) through morning paper presentations, an ECR panel, a workshop on research tools and methods, and an afternoon roundtable and future-focused discussion. Registration is now open—join the conversation shaping the public significance of non‑religiosity.
Event Details
Date: Friday 3 October 2025
Time: 8:45 AM–5:00 PM
Location: The University of Sydney
Cost: TASA Members $35 | Non Members $35
| | | The Urban Sociology Thematic Group invites scholars, practitioners, and students to join us on Wednesday, 9 October at The University of Sydney for an engaging symposium exploring the theme Knowing the City – Movements, Epistemologies, and Visions.
Event Details
Date: 9th October
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm (AEDT)
Location: University of Sydney
Cost: In-person $30 | Online $20
| | | | Researching Migration Studies: A Symposium on Methodologies
This one‑day hybrid symposium will examine methodological innovation and reflexivity in migration research. Tackle complex lived experiences, systemic barriers, ethics, and the digital turn through digital ethnography and platform studies. This mentoring‑focused event invites early‑career researchers and PhD students to submit expressions of interest and attend.
Event Details
Date: Friday 21 November 2025
Time: 9:30am - 5:00pm
Location: Monash University City Campus
Cost: TASA Member In-person - $40 | TASA Member PG, Casual, unwaged In-person- $15 | Non Member In-person $40 | Online - Complimentary
| | | | Calling for Career Stage Group Members
| We invite you to join either the Student, Early Career or Senior Career Stage Group
You can join a career stage group anytime by logging into your TASA membership profile, navigating to the More Member Options box > clicking/tapping on TASA Groups > Add TASA Groups > scroll to the bottom of the group menu list and click on your choice of Career Stage Group. If you need help, we’ve put together some handy pictorial instructions to guide you through the process that are available here. You can also reach out to Ali Smith, TASA's Membership Director, for assistance (membership@tasa.org.au).
| The Project: Building social and policy support for upcycling and the circular economy ecosystem
Monash University is seeking a level B Research Fellow (0.8FTE) to join the ARC Research Hub for Value-Added Processing of Underutilised Carbon Waste. This role will contribute to the project “Building social and policy support for upcycling and the circular economy ecosystem” The sub-projects are ‘Building public trust in upcycling’ and ‘Designing upcycling business ecosystems’.
You will conduct independent and collaborative research with Professor Jo Lindsay and Associate Professor Martin Geissdoerfer, including a literature review, co-design workshops with Hub partners, and qualitative case studies. The role also involves drafting conference papers, journal articles and policy briefs, and developing resources for a public-facing website to build understanding of upcycling.
This position offers the opportunity to advance research that connects social science, sustainability and policy, shaping the future of the circular economy. The link to apply is here.
Applications due by September 25 | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | | A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment
Tue, 23 Sep, 6pm - 8pm
AESTUTS Green Lecture Theatre-Building 7- Room 025
Ultimo NSW, Australia
Get Tickets (free entry) | | | | Australian Social Cohesion Summit 2025
Thursday 16 October
Monash College City Campus
750 Collins St, Docklands VIC 3008
Event description
The Australian Social Cohesion Summit 2025, hosted by the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute (SFRI), is a landmark biennial event set to take place in Melbourne, to bring a range of participants from across Australia together. Positioned as a key platform for addressing one of Australia’s most pressing challenges—maintaining and strengthening social cohesion—this summit will move beyond data presentation to actively drive dialogue, collaboration, and practical solutions. Through interactive discussions, and scenario-based activities, participants will gain actionable strategies to address social cohesion challenges at both local and national levels.
For Registration inquiries,
ahancocks@scanloninstitute.org.au
For a summary of some of the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s work on social cohesion in Australia click this link. | | | The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS)
| Prizes
2025 marked the twelfth year of the annual CHASS Australia Prizes. The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sector, including academics, researchers, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students.
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CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize
$2000 Prize Money
This prize is awarded to a future leader for a piece of written work (e.g., essay, scholarly article, media article, book chapter) from the perspective of the Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences.
Self-nominations are welcome. Applications must be sole-authored, written in English, and should deepen our understanding of aspects of Australian society and culture. Nominees must not have reached 35 years of age before the nomination cut-off date of 31 December the previous year, and be citizens or permanent residents of Australia. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
The written work may be published or unpublished and must not exceed 12,000 words.
Submission deadline extended to October 6th, 2025.
For information click here.
For submission form click here.
| | |  | | CHASS Prize for Distinctive Work in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
$2000 prize money
This prize is for a performance, exhibition, research project or a specific advance in policy development in any HASS field. Performances or exhibitions must have been open to the public between 1 January and 31 December in the previous year. Policy work and research may have commenced earlier, but must have been completed during the previous year.
Self-nominations are welcome. Nominees should provide sufficient evidence to allow judges to assess the impact of the performance, exhibition, project or policy. The nature of this evidence is up to the nominator (e.g., critical reviews, impact assessments, spin-offs, new policies).
Performances, exhibitions or policy work may have taken place abroad, but nominees must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia, and the work must have some relevance to Australian life. All materials submitted must be in English. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Submission deadline extended to 6th October, 2025.
For information click here.
For submission form click here
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CHASS BOARD
November 2025 - November 2027
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) represents many member organisations in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), speaking for approximately 20,000 people in the sector. Our work is overseen by the CHASS Board. The current Board will finish its term at our Annual General Meeting this November. We are now calling for nominations to join the CHASS Board for the coming two-year term, through to the 2027 Annual General Meeting in November that year. Serving on the CHASS Board is a chance to advocate for and build networks across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
We are taking nominations for general membership of the Board, and for the role of President. The Board will assign portfolios to general members after the election.
The short Nomination form must be signed by an authorised signatory of a current CHASS Member Organisation and be endorsed by the candidate. An election will be held where the number of nominations exceeds the positions available.
Please email the completed and signed form to Sally Daly, CHASS Executive Officer by midday (AEST) Monday October 6th, 2025 at: membership@chass.org.au
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| Newcastle Youth Studies Online Seminar Series
The Newcastle Youth Studies Centre is a collaborative group of researchers who work with young people to understand their lives, and the social, cultural, and economic forces they are living in. They have the following online seminars scheduled:
- The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness (September 24)
- The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter (October 8)
- The False Divide between Nature and Culture (November 5)
- ‘Your mum didn’t take selfies’: Youth and image cultures on social media (November 19)
For the details of each event, and to register, read on...
| Special Issues - call for proposals
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Sociological Research Online
Sociological Research Online welcomes proposals for the next special issue. The proposed special issue should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates by bringing together conceptually, empirically and/or methodologically innovative interventions within a specific topic area.
Proposal submission deadline: 24 September. Read on...
| Special Issues - call for submissions
| New: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
The aim of this volume is to engage scholars in an exercise of sociological imagination. What forms might religion assume by the year 2050? How might society itself be reconfigured? Can we envisage the faces of religion in society that will be quite different from what we know today? And crucially, is sociology able to grasp the key processes currently underway that may shape tomorrow’s religious-social landscape?
Proposal submission deadline: September 30. Read on ...
The Normative Turn in Sociology. Opening the Black Box
Sociology’s special issue hopes to lay the groundwork for a sociology of normativity; that is, a form of sociology (be it “critical” or otherwise) which is expressly normative. Editors are looking for contributions, theoretical and/or empirical, that engage with the question of normativity in sociology.
Paper submission deadline: 22 January 2026. Read on...
Earning while Learning: Experiences, patterns and the political economy of working students
Work, Employment and Society’s new special issue aims to interrogate and fundamentally reconceptualize the relationship between earning and learning, bringing together different disciplinary approaches to interrogate student work and the global political economy that shapes it. Paper submission deadline: 27 February 2026. Read on...
New: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
The guest editors of this journal are seeking submissions for the forthcoming edition ‘Reframing artificial intelligence: Critical perspectives from AI social science’
In an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), public and academic discourse is often dominated by polarised narratives—either heralding AI as a solution to complex problems or warning of its dangers … this Collection invites social science perspectives to advance the study of AI’s sociotechnical, cultural and political dimensions.
Submission deadline: 30 April 2026. Read on...
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Early Career Work and Family Fellowships
The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes and integrate them within the WFRN research community.
| | 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.
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75 Years of Sociology
British Sociological Association
8-10 April 2026
University of Edinburgh, UK
Abstract submission deadline: October 3rd. Read on...
2026 Centering Care Across the Life Course
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
June 17-20, 2026, Concordia University Montreal Canada.
Abstract submission deadline: October 1st. Read on...
Predoctoral Preconference
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
The Predoctoral Preconference will provide workshops intended to help graduate students form meaningful connections with diverse scholars, learn about publication strategies, as well as how to engage with stakeholders such as organisational leaders or policy advocates.
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. Read on... |  | The Jobs & Scholarships Board allows you to view opportunities that TASA Admin and fellow members have posted.
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