help_outline Skip to main content
Add Me To Your Mailing List
HomeEmailingsCHASS Newsletter
Date: 2/10/2022
Subject: CHASS Newsletter February 11
From: Sally Daly - CHASS EO


CHASS Block logo
CHASS Newsletter
Dear ~~first_name~~,
 
Welcome to our first newsletter for 2022. 
 
We encourage you to support the HASS sector by sharing details about your discipline/department via this newsletter. No news is too small of too big. Any mention of HASS is of value to our sector and we plan on continuing to extend the reach of our newsletter overtime. Please submit all content to CHASS Admin with NEWSLETTER in the subject line. 
 
CHASS Statement on Vetoed Grants
CHASS joined other sector peak bodies, associations, and universities in strongly condemning the vetoing of six, expert review panel-recommended research projects by acting Minister for Education, Stuart Robert, in the latest Australian Research Council Discovery Scheme round. If you missed our statement, you can catch up with it here.
 
HASS Congress
The Congress of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
November 27 - December 2, 2022

CHASS is very excited to be bringing together many of the major discipline association events for this year in the HASS sector under one banner. This will be the major initiative for CHASS and hopefully the major showcase for the sector in 2022.
 
Participating groups:
  • Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
  • Australia Academy of the Humanities
  •  Deans of Arts Social Sciences and Humanities
  • The Australian Sociological Association
  • Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
  • Australasian Association of Philosophy
  • Australian Historical Association
  • Australian Anthropological Society
  • Australian Linguistic Society
  • Australian Society for Continental Philosophy
  • Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association
  • Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities
  • Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • Australian Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion
  • Australian Association for the Study of Religion
  • Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools
There is still time to join this event. If your association has a conference, symposium or workshop that you are planning for the year that might fit as part of the initiative, please contact the CHASS President, Professor Dan Woodman (dan.woodman@unimelb.edu.au)
HASS Awards & Prizes
New: Holberg Prize
An international prize awarded annually for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology.
Nomination deadline: 15 June. Read on...
 
New: 2022 Australasian Association of Philosophy Prizes – Call for entries
 
  • Annette Baier Prize - The Australasian Association of Philosophy offers an annual prize of $500 for an outstanding philosophical paper or book chapter published by an Australasian woman during the previous calendar year.
    The closing date for entries is February 28 2022 at 6pm AEDT. Eligibility, Judging Criteria and online entry form available at: https://aap.org.au/Annette-Baier-Prize
  • AAP Prize for Innovation in Inclusive Curricula - The Australasian Association of Philosophy offers an annual monetary prize of $500 for the development of innovative approaches to teaching philosophy. The closing date for entries is February 28 2022 at 6pm AEDT. Eligibility, Judging Criteria and online entry form available at: https://aap.org.au/Innovation-in-Inclusive-Curricula-Prize
  • AAP Media Prize - The Australasian Association of Philosophy offers an annual prize of $500 for the best philosophical piece(s) published by a professional philosopher in the popular media in Australasia during the previous calendar year. The closing date for entries is February 28 2022 at 6pm AEDT. AAP Media Prize Eligibility, Judging Criteria and online entry form available at: https://aap.org.au/AAP-Media-Prize
  • AAP Media Professionals' Award - The Australasian Association of Philosophy offers an occasional award of $500 to journalists and other media professionals for excellence in the presentation of philosophy or philosophical issues in the media during the previous calendar year. The closing date for entries is February 28 2022 at 6pm AEDT. AAP Media Professionals' Award Eligibility, Judging Criteria and online entry form available at: https://aap.org.au/Media-Professionals-Award
New: Stephen Crook Memorial Award
A biennial prize for the best authored book in Australian Sociology.
Nomination deadline: March 1st. Read on.... 
 
New: Raewyn Connell Prize
A biennial prize for the best first book by an author in Australian Sociology.
Nomination deadline: March 1st. Read on...
  
Questions Writing Prize 2022
The 2022 Questions Writing Prize recognises and rewards young Australian writers (18 to 30 years). The writing can be fiction or non-fiction on any topic as long as the piece remains between 1,500 and 2,000 words.
The prize for the best writing submitted is $2,000.
The winner of the Questions Writing Prize will have their work published in a book and a forthcoming issue of Questions.
Submission deadline: May 1, 2022. Read on...
 
HASS Events
New: The 2022 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Summit
May 30th - June 2nd, Kabi Kabi country
The annual AIATSIS Summit provides a unique forum for academics, native title stakeholders, legal experts, community and cultural sectors and government to collaborate in addressing challenges for native title and research.
Abstract submission deadline: March 14. Read on...
 
New: Talk - Compulsion, Censorship & the Price of Freedom: How WW1’s Conscription Debate was Fought Out at the University of Melbourne
Wednesday, 23 February, 1:00 pm 2:00 pm AEDT. Melbourne.
For details, and to register, read on...
 
New: Applied linguistics in the Asia-Pacific region
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Annual Conference
25-27 November, 2022. Wellington City, New Zealand
A call for papers will open soon. 
 
New: Small Data is Beautiful: Analytics, Art and Narrative
2 day Symposium, free online event. 
Friday 18 February, 8:30 AM – Saturday, 19 February, 3:30 PM AEDT
This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to nurture and advance our understanding of small data in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
For details, and to register, read on...
 
HASS Funding
New: Research Grant Opportunity
Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies
Application deadline: May 31. Read on...
 
A new campaign has been launched in the lead up to the 2022 Federal Election to put funding for the Arts in Australia on the agenda of the major parties. For details, click here.
 
HASS Publications

Journals
O'Sullivan, B., Couch, D., & Naik, I. (2022). Using Mobile Phone Apps to Deliver Rural General Practitioner Services: Critical Review Using the Walkthrough Method. JMIR Formative Research, 6(1), e30387. [open access]
 
Newton, G., Zappavigna, M., Drysdale, K., & Newman, C. E. (2022). More than Humor: Memes as Bonding Icons for Belonging in Donor-Conceived People. Social Media + Society. [open access]
 
Neves BB, Mead G. Digital Technology and Older People: Towards a Sociological Approach to Technology Adoption in Later Life. Sociology. 2021;55(5):888-905. doi:10.1177/0038038520975587 [open access]

Videos
The Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers & Centres (ACHRC) 2021 Annual Conference Keynote - ‘The public don’t care about disciplinary boundaries: why we all must work together'. There are several videos available from the conference here.
 
HASS Internship and Mentoring Program Opportunities
New: Humanities 21 are offering internships which provide an exciting opportunity to work and enhance skills in one of four areas:
  • social media and communications strategy
  • video production and creative content
  • public and corporate events program
  • schools program, promoting the value of choosing a humanities education.
Application deadline: March 2. Read on...
 
HASS Employment Opportunities
New: Research Assistant in Gender Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
Application deadline: February 27. Read on...
 
New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Application deadline: February 24. Read on...
 
HASS Scholarship Opportunities
Merna Mattsson Scholarship for Women in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
The Merna Mattsson Scholarship for Women in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities is made possible by a generous legacy donation from the Mattsson family. Merna was a long serving staff member in the Swinburne Library.
Applications close: March 31. Read on...
 
Submitting Newsletter Content
We encourage you to support the HASS sector by sharing details about your discipline/department via this newsletter. No news is too small of too big. Any mention of HASS is of value to our sector and we plan on continuing to extend the reach of our newsletter overtime. Please submit all content to CHASS Admin. Suggested content includes, but is not limited to:
  • Awards and Prizes
  • Call for Papers (journals/conferences)
  • Call for Book Chapters
  • Competitions
  • Discipline/Department news
  • Industry connections
  • Funding Opportunities
  • Job and/or scholarship opportunities (these will also be listed on our publicly searchable website directory)
  • Publications, especially those with free full access
  • Social sciences week events
  • Other upcoming events
  • Submissions
  • Social gatherings
Increasing our Newsletter Reach
You can help increase our newsletter's reach by sharing the below link with your friends and colleagues. The link will enable them to be added to the mailing list for our newsletter.
 
 
 
 
Contact CHASS Admin:
membership@chass.org.au
Return to Previous Page