TASA Thursdays

TASA Thursdays was launched on Thursday April 23, 2020. What began as a way to help our members stay connected during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 & 2021, TASA Thursdays continued throughout 2022 - 2025 and will be a feature in TASA's 2026 calendar also. The sessions are an opportunity for members to showcase their work or present on a topical issue. They continue to be a means for sociologists to connect with likeminded people.  The recorded sessions are available on our YouTube channel here. 

Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Editor, together with Penny Toth, our Events Manager, hosts the monthly webinars and, in 2026, Brooklyn Donnelly, our Postgraduate Portfolio Leader, together with the Postgraduate Sub-Committee, will host the monthly Postgraduate sessions.  The schedule for 2026, shown below, will be updated as events are booked.  

Note, you can register for an event via the links included in the event titles. 

Date	Event Type	Presenter/s	Event Title	Recorded?
19th February	TASA Thursday	Stephanie Wescott & Steven Roberts	TASA Thursdays: Schooling misogyny: Examining the influence of the manosphere in education settings	View Here
26th February	TASA Thursdays PG	Dr Joel Hollier & Dr Laura Simpson Reeves	TASA Thursdays Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher session: Researching Sensitive Topics: Ethics, Care, and Boundaries	View Here
12th March	TASA Thursday	Dorinda 't Hart	TASA Thursday: Outside and Inside the Arena of "Intensive Mothering."	View Here
26th March	TASA Thursdays PG	TASA Staff & Student Career stage group conveners	TASA Thursdays: New Members' Onboarding Session	No
23rd April	TASA Thursday	Raewyn Connell	TASA Thursdays: Trans Lives	View Here
30th April	TASA Thursdays PG	Brooklyn Donnelly & Natalie Merryman	TASA Thursday Postgrad: TASA's Postgraduate Impact and Engagement Award	View Here
14th May	TASA Thursday	Dr Tamara Borovica Dr Penelope Bergen Dr Dianne Rodger Dr Belinda Johnson	The Sociology of Emotions and Wellbeing in Music Worlds: Orchestras, Hip-Hop and Feminist Punk Rock	View Here
11th June	TASA Thursdays PG	Carl Anacin Don McArthur Taylor Richardson-Marlton	Creative Participation in Sociological Theory: Art, Reflexivity and Cultural Sociology	View Here
13th August	TASA Thursday	A/Prof Katherine Kenny A/Prof Nadine Ehlers, Dr Bhavna Middha, Dr Henrietta Byrne,Dr Roberta Pala	Exposure and Embodiment in the Anthropocene	No
27th August	TASA Thursdays PG	Celia Roberts	Experimenting with Estrogens	View Here
24th September	TASA Thursday	Michelle Fitts	Research Feedback Loops in Disability Research with Aboriginal & Strait Islander Communities...	Available upon request
17th September	TASA Thursdays PG	TASA Staff & Student Career stage group conveners	TASA Thursdays: New Members' Onboarding Session
15th October	TASA Thursday	Craig Browne	Paradoxes of Hope and Ideology
15th October	TASA Thursday	Ramón Spaaij, Mary Woessner, Ruth Jeanes and Simone Fullagar	Research Impact in Practice: Navigating Knowledge Translation, Policy Influence
22nd October	TASA Thursdays PG	Nashid Nigar	Beyond Data: Stories, Power and Lived Experience in Sociological Research
29th October	TASA Thursday	Jessie Liu	A Robot for Every Home’: On The Robotisation of the Domestic Sphere
5th November	TASA Thursdays	Marisela Velazquez & Ami Stearns	When researcher positionality and reflexivity meet fieldwork, analysis, & writing

The 2025 TASA Thursdays events are available here. 
The 2024 TASA Thursdays events are available here.
The 2023 TASA Thursdays events are available here.
The 2022 TASA Thursdays events are available here.