Dear ~~first_name~~,
Exciting things are happening at TASA 2025 and there’s now a dedicated Postgraduate Page on TASAweb to keep you in the loop. One of the highlights of this year’s program is an exclusive session with Professor Jenny L. Davis, offering a unique opportunity to connect, reflect, and be inspired. Visit the new postgrad page for all the details.
In other postgrad news, if you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event, Beyond the Thesis: Navigating Opportunities After Your PhD, and you would like to view the recording, please email Penny (this recording will not be made available beyond our membership).
As a friendly reminder, if you would like something included on TASA's Annual General Meeting agenda, or would like to submit an apology, please email the details to Sally in TASA Admin by Monday November 10, 2025.
We invite you to read on for news of members' latest publications, events and more.
Warm regards,
Sally, Penny and Ali
TASA Team
| We are so happy to be welcoming three new members this week, Brosnan Mendez, Shiori Shakuto and Gabrielle Warner. It's good to see TASA continue to grow steadily. We would also like to express our gratitude to all those renewing members -- it is your year-round support that makes it possible for this community to remain sustainable. We are especially appreciative of those members coming back after a career break or change of circumstances, it's great to welcome people back at any time.
| | TASA 2025 Conference Program
You can 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.
You can access the program here. | | | Introducing Special Sections
Following the recent launch of a new paper type for Journal of Sociology, Teaching Notes, the JoS team are launching a new feature called Special Sections. They invite proposals at any time for thematic sections that consist of three or four standard 8,000 word papers, framed with a 4,000 word introduction. This will be an ideal format for developing and publishing outcomes from, for instance, a conference panel, a smaller research network, or papers in conversation around a hot topic. Special Sections are designed to be a smaller, more manageable version of a special issue and will feature in standard issues along with regular papers.
If you would like to pitch a special section, please write firstly to our Managing Editor, Dr Amy Vanderharst.
| The latest special issue of the Journal of Sociology explores ‘Equity in the creative industries’ in the context of a changing employment landscape in Australia. Inequality is central to understanding the social consequences and distribution of cultural work. The COVID-19 pandemic, rise of digital cultural production, growth of media sharing platforms, and instability of changes in government (and policy) have both disrupted and re-organised cultural work. The collection of articles aims to develop debate on competing imaginaries of the lived experiences of workers, and to shed light on the struggle and complexities of contemporary creative labour.
All articles have been published on open access and are available here.
| We extend a warm congratulations to fellow member Kathy Anderson who has just had her first peer reviewed book chapter published: Anderson, K.S. (2025). ‘Just Because You Didn’t Detect It, Doesn’t Mean It’s Not There’: Long COVID, ME/CFS and the Social Dynamics of Biomedical Knowledge Production. In: Lupton, D. (eds) Long COVID and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9168-5_4
Jeremy CA Smith, (2025). ‘From Intercivilizational Encounters to Intercivilizational Engagement: The Journey of a Concept in Civilizational Analysis’. In: Rossi, I. (ed) From Intercivilizational Encounters to Intercivilizational Analysis. Reflections on Robertson’s Views of the Global Human Condition, and Beyond. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97188-4_5
Jara Ibarra, C., & Pavez Montenegro, C. (2025). Gender, higher education, and citizenship in Chile: Local reflections for a global citizenship. En A. Cantón, G. Palavicini, & P. Imbarack Dagach (Eds.), Latin American university students and global citizenship: Perspectives and engagement (pp. 79-92). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03057-3
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Iftikhar, S., Banham, V., Boyd, E. R. & Peter, S. (2025). First Generation Married Pakistani Women’s Perspectives on Paternalistic Dominance, Family Values and Traditional Gender Roles in Australia. Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences, 8(1): 78-99. https://doi.org/10.33422/jarss.v8i1.1367
Iftikhar, S., Peter, S., Banham, V. B., & Reid Boyd, E. (2025). Cultural considerations in understanding control, coercion, and violence among Pakistani immigrant women in Western Australia. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 37(3), 48–60. https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol37iss3id1269
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Event Details
Date: Friday 21 November
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
REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 7th November
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The Australian National University
The Research Fellow will contribute to RegNet’s teaching efforts, particularly at postgraduate, professional training and higher degree by research (HDR) levels, and carry out activities to develop their scholarly, research and/or professional track record. Early career scholars working on the following topics are particularly welcome to apply: concerns related to complexity and uncertainty in governance, contemporary regulatory governance and the governance of innovation and risk.
| Research Specialist
Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
The Center for Survey Research, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of Assistant Research Specialist or above with a focus on computational social science and survey methodology
Application deadline: October 31. Read on...
| | Scholarship Opportunities | PhD Scholarship - New Possibilities: Youth, Digital Democracy and Resilience
Western Sydney University
This project will undertake participatory research with young people aged 12 – 22 in Western Sydney to understand the views and experiences of those who are first time voters in the lead up to either a state or federal election.
Lead researchers include TASA member Philippa Collin
Application deadline: Tomorrow October 31st. Read on... | Other Events, News & Opportunities
| Mark Davis' Thesis 11 Annual Lecture - Relational Sociology in Action! Zelizer and the Climate Crisis
Thursday November 27th, 6-8pm AEDT
Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture, Melbourne
Prof Mark Davis joins TASA 2025for the Thesis Eleven annual lecture to explore sociology’s role in addressing challenges like the climate crisis.
2025 Agnes Heller Lecture - AI, Care, and Ageing Futures
Presenter: fellow member Barbara Barbosa Neves
Level 2, Room 2.10, La Trobe City Campus
November 18th, 1:45pm - 3:30pm AEDT
From courtrooms to care homes, AI is remaking what it means to be old. On one hand, AI-driven hiring platforms are facing lawsuits for discriminating against older applicants. On the other, headlines celebrate robots to solve the so-called aged care crisis, alongside multimillion-dollar investments in chatbots that promise to cure loneliness among older people.
| Kohli Fellowship 2026
Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
The Kohli Fellowship is awarded to a promising early-stage researcher in sociology. The fellowship is awarded for 24 months. The current monthly stipend is € 2,500, subject to revision.
Application deadline: November 16. Read on... | Call - Advisory Committee Members
| Advisory Committee on the Environmental Management of Industrial Chemicals (IChEMS Advisory Committee).
This independent expert committee advises the Minister for Environment and Water on scheduling decisions. These decisions help ensure industrial chemicals are managed safely.
The committee may provide advice on chemical properties, relevant environmental risks, end uses, and socio-economic factors.
A Candidate Information Pack can be downloaded from their website.
| Threads of resistance
Online, TODAY Thursday October 30, 12pm - 2pm
PhD students from Deakin University invite you to a lunchtime seminar on human resistance to domination and oppression. Speakers will describe threads of resistance running through their research in different fields.
Western Sydney University, Sexualities and Genders Research (SaGR) presents our famous, excellent, fun annual research showcase on Nov 10th 2pm-4:30pm at Parramatta City Campus, along with the launch of our 5 year review report. Attend to see researchers and community partners speed present their contemporary research, and network with other Sexualities, Genders and feminist scholars.
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, cultural, and economic forces they are living in. They have the following online seminars scheduled:
- The False Divide between Nature and Culture (November 5)
- ‘Your mum didn’t take selfies’: Youth and image cultures on social media (November 19)
| BSA Annual Conference 2026: 75 Years of Sociology
University of Edinburgh, UK
8-10 April 2026
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.
| | Reimagining Boyhood: Addressing the wellbeing of boys and young men through education
21 January, 2026
The University of Queensland
Key Speakers include fellow member Garth Stahl.
This event brings together leading international voices, cutting-edge research, and the shared commitment of schools and educators to shape the future of boys’ education, exploring identity, wellbeing, belonging, and learning in boyhood. With keynote speakers, expert panels, and interactive workshops, this full-day program offers evidence-based insights and practical strategies that educators can apply directly.
| | | Special Issues - call for submissions
| Professionalism beyond the Global North: A Space for New Theoretical Developments
Current Sociology Monographs
This issue invites contributions that advance sociological research on professions, professionalism, and expertise in the Global South—broadly defined to include Africa, Asia, Latin America, Southern and Eastern Europe, and Oceania
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. 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. Read on...
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. Read on...
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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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