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The countdown is on to the Congress of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 2025, and we’re thrilled to share what’s ahead. CHASS, in partnership with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, will host a full-day Academic Freedom Symposium on Tuesday, 25 November at the University of Melbourne (8:30am–6:30pm). Join leading thinkers for a day of lively discussion and critical reflection, followed by a drinks reception generously sponsored by Taylor & Francis.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this important conversation, register here.
This month’s newsletter also features updates on other upcoming events, new publications, and opportunities across the HASS sector.
Warm regards,
CHASS Team
| People Places Prize 2025 For Creativity And Innovation
The People Places Prize is about creative and innovative ideas for urban environments. The Prize is open to Australian citizens and residents aged 18 and over. The winner will receive $10,000 and their ideas featured in an exhibition and on www.peopleplaces.org.au.
Sorrento Creative Writing Prize 2026
The Sorrento Creative Writing Prize is a Future Leaders Initiative. The Prize celebrates the annual Sorrento Writers Festival and its mission to bring writers and readers together. The winner will receive $5,000 and their writing featured at the 2025 Sorrento Writers Festival and at www.writing.org.au
| | HASS Scholarships & Fellowships | Strategic Scholarships 2026
Melbourne Social Equity Institute is seeking expressions of interest from candidates interested in undertaking doctoral research on social equity issues. For this open call, up to three Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) scholarships will be available for commencement in 2026.
Expression of Interest Deadline: October 20. Read on...
| Congress of HASS
2025 Congress of HASS
CHASS
The University of Melbourne
Monday 24 - Friday 28 November 2025
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Conferences
Sociology in Action! Wellbeing, Policy, and Activism in Times of Crises and Change
TASA
The University of Melbourne
Hybrid, Monday 24 - Thursday 27 November 2025
CSAA Conference 2025
Cultural Studies Association of Australia
The University of Melbourne
Wednesday 26 - Friday 28 November 2025
The ANZAMEMS 15th Biennial Conference: ‘Possibilities’
ANZAMEMS
The University of Melbourne
Wednesday 3 - Friday 5 December 2025
Online Seminar
The False Divide between Nature and Culture
Newcastle Youth Studies Center
Wednesday 5 November 2025
'Your mum didn't take selfies': Youth and image cultures on social media
Newcastle Youth Studies Center
Wednesday 19 November 2025
Symposiums
The Humanities & Creative Practice - 56th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Thursday 13 November 2025
NEW: Yirrim Trubala Symposium
Charles Darwin University
Friday 28 November 2025
Lectures
NEW: La Trobe University's 2025 Agnes Heller Lecture - Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves on AI, Care, and Ageing Futures
La Trobe University Sociology Program
Tuesday 18 November 2025
NEW: Relational Sociology in Action! Zelizer and the Climate Crisis
Thesis Eleven Journal
Thursday 27 November 2025
| All of the below articles are available on open access:
Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek, K., & Zyzak, B. (2025). Digital Technologies in Public Administration Networks: Systematic Literature Review and Research Avenues. Administration & Society, 57(8-9), 1051-1087. https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997251369090
Rodriguez, A., & Ghonghadze, N. (2025). No One-Size-Fits-All: Empirical Evidence of Cultural Differences Among Urban Planners in 10 Countries. Administration & Society, 57(8-9), 1088-1117. https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997251369469
Uster, A., & Acosta, A. (2025). Beyond policy failures: The dependency-constraint paradox in the government-nonprofit relationship addressing violence against women. Public Policy and Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767251377264
Sanderson, E. (2025). Exploring relationships between coproduction and service user outcomes: Value creation in a coproduced youth employment programme. Public Policy and Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767251380643
Nguyen-Trung, K., Saeri, A.K., Zhao, K. et al. SeCOM-B: an integrated model for understanding human behaviour change in wicked socio-ecological problems. Socio Ecol Pract Res (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-025-00227-y
Coleman-Hicks, R., and G. van Toorn. 2025. “ Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission.” Australian Journal of Social Issues 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70069
Zhao, X., Vliegenthart, R., De Swert, K., & Boukes, M. (2025). Who Takes the Lead? Reciprocal Relationships Between the European Parliament’s Political Agenda and National Media Agenda on EU–China Trade Relations in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (2001–2020). The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251368278
Borovica, T., Leong, J., Rae, J. & Hjorth, L. (2025). Ecological Grief, Hope, and Creative Forms of Resilience: A Creative Practice Approach. Open Cultural Studies, 9(1), 20250069. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2025-0069
Tamara Borovica, Renata Kokanović, Jacinthe Flore, Lisa Blackman, Emma-Louise Seal, Kathrine Boydell, Jill Bennett, Experimenting with arts-based methods and affective provocations to understand complex lived experience of a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 350, 2024, 116950, ISSN 0277-9536, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116950
Borovica, T., Kokanović, R., Seal, E. L., Flore, J., Boydell, K., Blackman, L., & Hayes, L. (2024). What does leisure have to do with mental health – arts, creative and leisure practices and living with mental distress. Leisure Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2024.2376016
Seal, E.-L., Kokanović, R., Flore, J., Borovica, T., Broadbear, J. H., McCutcheon, L., & Lawn, S. (2024). Talking about borderline personality disorder, shaping care: The multiple doings of narratives. Sociology of Health & Illness, 46(8), 1709–1729. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13804
Roney, C., Wiesner, D., Riedl, A. A., & Eberl, J.-M. (2025). Rally and Recalibrate: Political Dynamics of Audience Expectations of Journalism During Times of Crisis. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251375203
Farooq, A., van den Hoogen, E., Tulin, M., & de Vreese, C. (2025). Generative AI Generating Concerns: Citizens’ Perspectives During the 2024 European Elections. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251376060
Given, L. M., Polkinghorne, S., & Ridgway, A. (2025). ‘I think I misspoke earlier. My bad!’: Exploring how generative artificial intelligence tools exploit society’s feeling rules. New Media & Society, 27(10), 5525-5545. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251338276
Dhillon, H. M., Drysdale, K., Haire, B., valentine, kylie, Walsberger, S., Hartley, A., Jasicki, L., Daignault, C., & Smith, A. K. J. (2025). LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials: Ensuring justice and data equity. Research Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161251383558
Nguyen-Trung, K., Vo, T.D., Ly, A.T. et al. Place-making in times of crisis: A thematic analysis of how Vietnamese students abroad reconfigure spaces. High Educ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01545-6
First Generation Married Pakistani Women’s Perspectives on Paternalistic Dominance, Family Values and Traditional Gender Roles in Australia. (2025). 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
Mattos Luz, G., & Álvares, C. (2025). Mediating Bolsonarism on Facebook: Religion, technopolitics and activism in Grassroots Digital Networks. Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437251385466
| | Nishitani, Makiko; Butler, Rose; Pale, Maryanne (2025). Outreach across cultures: Building scaffolding for more equitable and diverse career pathways for young people in Sunraysia. La Trobe. Report. https://doi.org/10.26181/30252370.v1 | A new book called "Social Connection in Everyday Spaces", edited by Milovan Savic, Roger Patulny and Jane Farmer, explores the broader social forces that shape our interactions and experiences to tackle loneliness and foster belonging. It offers visionary ideas for reshaping policy and research, paving the way for a more connected future.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called "Recalibrating Stigma - Sociologies of Health and Illness", edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt and Amy Chandler, revisits and redefines stigma in the context of health and illness, addressing its problematic legacy and expanding the area by contributing theoretical and empirical chapters to advance our understanding.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called "Social Innovation for Real-World Transformation" written by Julie Chateauvert, Philippe Dufort, Jonathan Durand Folco, Christopher Gunter, Krys Maki, Anahi Morales Hudon, Philippe Néméh-Nombré, Julie Paquette, Jamel Stambouli, Simon Tremblay-Pepin and Amanda Wilson, challenges readers to rethink its true potential for addressing the systemic roots of our most pressing social crises, balancing rigorous theoretical insights with actionable strategies.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called "Rethinking Migration - Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race" edited by Bridget Anderson, illustrates that conceptually based, critical and creative thinking is as important for practice as it is for theory and can help us understand and respond to migration as a force that connects rather than divides.
The full text can be accessed here.
| | HASS Employment Opportunities |
Assistant Research Specialist Position
Full Time
Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
NEW: Postdoctoral Researcher (Psychology)
Full Time
University of Sydney
Application deadline: November 17th. Read on...
NEW: Head of Photomedia
Full Time
National Art School
NEW: Head of Drawing
Full Time
National Art School
Associate Professor / Professor of Architectural Practice (Education Focused)
Full Time
University of Sydney
Associate Professor / Professor of Design (Education Focused)
Full Time
University of Sydney
Education Focused Academics (Sydney Horizon Educators) Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Full Time
University of Sydney
Education Focused Academics (Sydney Horizon Educators) Faculty of Science
Full Time
University of Sydney
Education Focused Academics (Sydney Horizon Educators) The School of Architecture, Design
Full Time
University of Sydney
NEW: Research Fellow
Full Time
Australian National University
NEW: Lecturer (Philosophy)
Full Time
University of Western Australia
NEW: Lecturer, History (T&R)
Full Time
La Trobe University
Instructor Faculty in English
Full Time
Abu Dhabi University
Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Media Production
Full Time
Abu Dhabi University
Assistant Professor of Applied Behaviour Analysis
Full Time
Abu Dhabi University
NEW: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Viola
Full Time
University of Melbourne
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