 | The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research
The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research honour Australians in the early part of their career who have achieved excellence in scholarship in one or more fields of the social sciences.
Anyone can submit a nomination however each nomination must be supported by two Academy Fellows: one named as proposer and one as seconder. The proposer and seconder may choose to complete and submit the nomination, or it can be completed by someone else, including the nominee. The Nomination also requires:
- A nomination form setting out the case for the nominated scholar.
- The name, position and email address of two referees who have agreed to provide a referee’s report in support of the nomination by the due date. Referees should be scholars in the nominee’s field of study. Referees need not be Fellows of the Academy.
- A full CV for the nominee.
- Evidence of any claimed career interruptions.
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.
2025 Human Rights Award
The Australian Human Rights Awards is an inspirational showcase of the best in all of us. The Awards honour and celebrate diverse human rights heroes and significant achievements in protecting and promoting human rights in Australia.
The Rechnitz Memorial Award
The annual Rechnitz Award is intended to recognise excellence in research leadership and advancement of knowledge of Indigenous society, culture and language. The Award is open to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars
| | HASS Scholarships & Fellowships | Junior Fellowships 2026
Forum Basiliense, University of Basel
In 2026, the Forum will focus on the annual theme "Conflict and Cooperation", inviting interdisciplinary engagement with conflict dynamics and cooperative practices in times of global transformation.
Application deadline: July 31st. Read on...
NEW: IERLab PhD Opportunity 2026
IERLab is excited to announce a new PhD opportunity to commence in 2026 at Curtin University!
The PhD project will focus on ‘Queer Influencer Cultures in East Asia’, working with Professor Crystal Abidin (Principal Supervisor) and Dr Hao Zheng (Co-Supervisor). If you are identified as the preferred candidate for this project you may be considered for an RTP scholarship.
Application deadline: August 18th. Read on... | Congress
2025 Congress of HASS
CHASS
The University of Melbourne
Monday 24 - Friday 28 November 2025
SAVE THE DATE
NEW: Founding Stories, Forging Communities, Feminist Futures: Nurturing Feminist Histories in Precarious Times
A Joint Australian Women’s History Network Symposium and Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
The University of Melbourne
24 - 25 November 2025
Abstract submission deadline: August 29
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
Automating Everyday Life
Newcastle Youth Studies Center
TOMORROW, Wednesday 30 July 2025, 3pm
Ask Me Anything: The Reality of Homelessness
Council to Homeless Persons
Wednesday 6 August 2025, 12pm
New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal
Newcastle Youth Studies Center
Wednesday 20 August 2025
The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness
Newcastle Youth Studies Center
Wednesday 24 September 2025
The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter
Newcastle Youth Studies Center
Wednesday 8 October 2025
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
| All of the below articles are available on open access:
Humphrey, A., & Forbes-Mewett, H. (2025). The experiences, coping practices, and mental health of Ukrainian young people living amid wartime Ukraine. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000812
Woods, B., Danks, N., Gorman, J. et al. Climate-Related Perceptions of Young People with Lived Experience of Disasters in Regional and Rural Victoria, Australia. JAYS (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-025-00178-x
Cannizzo, F., Strong, C., & Brunt, S. (2025). ‘Getting back to my old self’: women and gender non-conforming people restarting DIY careers in music. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2025.2523377
Presto, A. 2025. “ Contradictions in Gender Inclusivity and Discrimination: Experiencing the Paradoxical Workplace in the Philippines.” Sexuality, Gender & Policy 8, no. 3: e70014. https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.70014
Khorshidi, M. S., Merigó, J. M., & Beydoun, G. (2025). Scientific Production on LinkedIn: A Bibliometric Review. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906251345075
Andrew Clarke, Daniel Kudla, Lutfun Nahar Lata, Governing urban marginality in the post-COVID city: introduction to the Virtual Special Issue, Cities, Volume 166, 2025, 106211, ISSN 0264-2751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106211
Overbeck, M., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., & Baden, C. (2025). Projecting Tomorrow’s Challenges: Toward a Temporally Nuanced Framework for Studying Agenda Setting. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251345963
Zoizner, A., Matthes, J., Corbu, N., de Vreese, C. H., Esser, F., Koc-Michalska, K., Schemer, C., Theocharis, Y., & Zilinsky, J. (2025). Can AI-Attributed News Challenge Partisan News Selection? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251342679
Ivanusch, C., & Balluff, P. (2025). What Makes it into the Media? Party Messages, Communication Channels, and Media Outlets. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251342707
Strömbäck, J., Johansson, S., Broda, E., Espeland, E., & Ekström, H. (2025). Addressing a Blind Spot in Selective Exposure Research: Perceptions of Media Bias and Their Effects on Mainstream Media Use. A Mediation Analysis. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251337814
Arnup, J. L., Edwards, B., & Baker, S. (2025). On Widening Participation in Higher Education: A National Examination of Equity Initiatives in Australian Secondary Schools. Australian Journal of Education https://doi.org/10.1177/00049441251355984
Diya Porwal, Giselle Newton, Julia Mansour, Lisa Dive, Stakeholders’ experiences and perspectives of reproductive genetic carrier screening in gamete donation: a scoping review, Human Reproduction, 2025;, deaf128, https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deaf128
Scott J. Fitzpatrick, Grenville Rose, Melanie Giugni, Louise A. Ellis, Alyssa R. Morse, Cassandra Chakouch, Erin Oldman, Benn Miller, Helen T. Oni, Michelle Banfield, Strengths and challenges for implementing non-clinical safe spaces for people experiencing emotional distress and/or suicidal crisis: A mixed-methods study from Australia, SSM - Health Systems, Volume 5, 2025, 100100, ISSN 2949-8562, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmhs.2025.100100
Harper, E., Wilson, R. & McGrath-Champ, S. Workload demands, unpaid hours, and concerns about time with children: a survey of Australian early childhood educators. Aust. Educ. Res. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00847-z
Fehlberg, B., Smyth, B.M., Campo, M. and Natalier, K. (2025), The Meaning of Home for Children and Young People After Parental Separation: Key Insights for Practice. Aust J Soc Issues. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70033
| A new book called "Framing Solidarities in Times of Multiple Crises", edited by Mojca Pajnik, Helge Schwiertz, Donatella della Porta, Franz Bernhardt and Marko Ribać, explores how polycrises not only generate new forms of inequality and social exclusion but also inspire new political activism, solidarity, and citizenship. It examines how social movement organizations frame their responses to exclusionary policies and regimes, and sheds light on their strategies for mobilization.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called " The Future of Labour: How AI, Technological Disruption and Practice Will Change the Way We Work", edited by Anthony Larsson and Andreas Hatzigeorgiou, offers a forward-looking exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI), digitalisation and technological transformation are reshaping the future of work. Through a series of studies conducted by scientists and industry professionals, this volume takes a deep dive into many of the issues related to new policies, AI and the digital transformation’s anticipated impact on the labour market.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called "Violent Impacts How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis", written by Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca, explores concerns regarding brain injury in sport having escalated into what is often termed a “concussion crisis,” fueled by high-profile lawsuits and deaths. In the book, the authors examine what is and what isn’t captured in popular discourse, scrutinizing how law, science, and social inequalities shape depictions and understandings of brain injury.
The full text can be accessed here.
| | HASS Employment Opportunities |
NEW: Lecturer in Design
Full Time
University of the Sunshine Coast
NEW: Associate Lecturer in Visual Art
Full Time
University of Melbourne
NEW: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Full Time
Queensland University of Technology
NEW: Head of School, School of Humanities
Full Time
University of Sydney
NEW: Professor of Architecture
Full Time
University of Sydney
| | Call For Abstracts | CRP-ARHRI Conference | The Western Sydney University Challenging Racism Project (CRP) and University of Melbourne Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative (ARHRI) is holding a cross-disciplinary one-day conference on Friday, 7 November 2025 at Western Sydney University, Parramatta City campus. The conference will be free to attend.
This event will bring together researchers and practitioners who are undertaking work related to anti-racism. This will be an opportunity for us all to learn more about each other’s work, build networks, and explore the potential for future collaborations.
Please submit your abstract using this link by 1 August 2025.
A registration link to attend the conference will be circulated separately, closer to the date of the conference. | | Call For Papers - Implementing New Knowledge Environments | INKE invites you to join in conversations and share collaborative work in digital scholarship around the following questions, and other topics pertinent to our community beyond:
- How can open social scholarship, with its focus on community, openness, and engagement, provide more generous frameworks for understanding and shaping the shifts brought about by an increasingly algorithmic culture(s)?
- What opportunities and challenges do AI-driven systems present for the knowledge commons, public platforms, and scholarly engagement?
- What is the place of creative works and artistic practice within an evolving knowledge commons?
- How do we balance innovation with stewardship, maintenance, and preservation imperatives that are needed by cultural data?
- What is the future of the public domain and the platforms and collaborations required to sustain it?
- If AI relies on published works for its learning, how might we ensure reciprocal relationships are in place for those creating these works? And how might these relations be protected from exploitation?
- How do we avoid the risks of algorithmic monoculture and the homogenization of cultural formats and outputs?
INKE invites you to submit abstracts for longer presentations (15-20 mins) and lightning talks (5-10 mins) on these themes and beyond. Read on... | 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 Digital Publications via digitalpublications@chass.org.au . Suggested content includes, but is not limited to:
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