Dear ~~first_name~~,
This month’s newsletter brings together a range of opportunities and resources from across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS).
Explore a selection of open access publications, including journal articles, book chapters and reports, offering new research and perspectives across the HASS disciplines. There is also still time to enter the People’s Place Prize, which offers a $10,000 award. Entries close 1 November.
Looking ahead, we’ve also gathered a selection of online HASS events taking place in October, providing opportunities to hear from researchers, practitioners and others working across our diverse fields.
We hope you find something of interest, and as always, please feel free to share these opportunities with your colleagues and networks.
The CHASS Team
| New: Fellowship Elections
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Fellows of the Academy include Australia’s leading researchers and practitioners across the breadth of social science disciplines, as well as a number of honorary Fellows (those who have made significant contributions to the social sciences beyond research), and overseas Fellows working outside of Australia.
| People Places Prize
Future Leaders
Prize $10,000
The People Places Prize 2026 is about creative and innovative ideas for living places. The Prize is open to Australian citizens and residents aged 18 and over. The winner will receive $10,000 and their ideas featured on www.peopleplaces.org.au.
Creative and innovative ideas for the Prize can be in any (or combination) of four areas.
– The Arts
– Green spaces
– Building design
– Disability access
Entry deadline: 1 November. Read on...
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New: Understanding the Role of Sport in Reducing Loneliness and Fostering Social Connection in Contemporary Australia
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
This PhD project will examine the changing relationship between sport, social connection, and loneliness in contemporary Australia. Against the background of declining participation in competitive club sport and the rise of informal sports, this project investigates the role sport may play in reducing loneliness for at-risk groups such as young people, midlife men, people from marginalised backgrounds, those living in regional and rural areas, or people living with disability.
Application deadline: 1 October. Read on...
Border Security: Managing a Shared Responsibility Approach to Biosecurity at the Frontline
University of Tasmania
This project will investigate how those working in border biosecurity – at ports and airports – interpret their roles, responsibilities, and everyday practices. This includes investigating:
| | Global Scholars Program Opportunities | New: Global Scholars Program for Early-Career Researchers (CIFAR)
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
The CIFAR Global Scholars Program offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop and lead high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research, expand their professional networks and receive focused leadership training in their pivotal first years as independent principal investigators. These experiences accelerate the rise of research leaders who are positioned to drive new discoveries and open new fields of inquiry.
CIFAR welcomes applications from candidates across the social sciences and humanities. Successful applicants join one of CIFAR’s interdisciplinary research programs, collaborating with global research leaders to advance transformative knowledge and address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity.
| | HASS Fellowship Opportunities | The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies
Applications are encouraged from outstanding Australians in mid-career as well as those further advanced. The Committee reserves the right to invite particular persons to accept nomination.
Application deadline: 15 October. Read on...
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Workshops
Growing Up in the Early Modern World: Children, Institutions and Belonging Workshop
ANZAMEMS
Beginning on 11 November and held over 5 weeks, this workshop and seminar series invites scholars to reconsider the role of institutions in the lives of children.
Seminars
New: 'Digital Well-Being': a Dream or a Crisis?
Monday 26 October 5:30pm - 7:30pm AEDT
Hybrid
Swinburne, Hawthorn, Melbourne
Webinars
New: Strengthening Social Licence
DASSH
Online
Wednesday 14 October
New: Exploring the Arts for Social, Cultural and Educational Value from Cradle to Grave
The Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA)
Online
Friday, 9 October, 1:pm - 2pm AEDT
For details, and to register, read on...
New: Come with Me Panel Discussion
Online
Friday 9 October, 9am-10am, AEDT
Ron Perlman and Theo Rossi talking about media influence, isolation, and radicalisation through the lens of the new movie "Come with me”, hosted by Dr Noah Cohen from the School of Social Science at Western Sydney University
Public Lectures
Let’s talk about flex: How ‘Good Flex’ builds sustainable careers and better workplaces
Professor Rae Cooper presents the 2026 Hancock Lecture
Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
October 1, 6:00 - 7.15PM (AEST)
Conferences
2026 APSA Conference
Australian Political Studies Association
24–26 November 2026 (PhD Workshop to be held Monday 23 November 2026)
Deakin University, Waterfront Campus (Geelong, Victoria)
2026 CSAA Conference
What the * is Going On: Rethinking Cultural Studies in Times of Crisis
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
7-10 December, 2026
University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales
2026 ALS Conference
Australian Linguistic Society
University of Western Australia
1 and 4 December 2026
2026 ASCP Conference
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
Macquarie University
Tuesday 1 - Thursday 3 December 2026
The Australian Sociological Association
Revolution & Resistance
University of the Sunshine Coast
Monday 23 - Friday 27 November 2026
University of Wollongong Conference
New: Early-to-Mid Career Researcher Conference
24 - 26 November, 2026
Wollongong
| Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2026) Social Sciences for Australia’s Future,
Canberra, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, https://socialsciences.org.au/future.
Trezise, B., Wake, C., Gray, N., Günel, A., & Fuskelay, A. (2026). From Creative Histories to Futures: Mapping the Cultural Data Sector in Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21881266
| All of the below articles are available in full, on open access:
Williams, A.N., Tobler, R., Griffiths, B. et al. Large estimated size of the Australian Indigenous population before its extensive decline following colonial invasion. Nature Human Behaviour (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-02571-9
Hamada, I., & Cho, H. E. (2026). Migration, gender and legal consciousness: navigating post-separation among East Asian women in Australia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2026.2732718
Tacheva, J., & Erdoğan, S. (2026). How social media produces “Cheap Europe”: Digital Balkanism and the politics of creator mobility. Media, Culture & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437261488250
Lu, S., Mu, H., & Yang, T. (2026). When Movement Widens the Gap: The Contingent Effect of the Chinese #MeToo Movement on Feminist Attitudes. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612261484800
Molnar, L., & McCook, S. (2026). “Everyone’s Moving, and Learning Together”: Young People and Practitioners Working with Collective Care to Create Futures Without Gender-Based Violence. Social Sciences, 15(8), 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15080520
Fomiatti, R., Keane, H., Nourse, G., Lenton, E., Pienaar, K., Savic, M. & Treloar, C. (2026). Aesthetic mediation and lateral agency: Rethinking trauma and drug consumption in ‘crisis ordinariness’. International Journal of Drug Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105471
Drysdale, K., Karasu, Y., & Watson, L. (2026). “Australian Trans and Gender Diverse People’s Understandings of Menopause: Beyond Cisgenderism, Heterosexism and Binary-based Gender in the Current ‘Menopause Moment’”. Health Promotion International, Volume 41, Issue 5, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag132
Ferguson, N., Ravn, S., & Craig, L. (2026). Between happy futures and precarious presents: The promise and pitfalls of work for single mothers on the margins in Australia. Critical Social Policy, 0(0). https://doi.ohttps://doi.org/10.1177/02610183261461223rg/10.1177/02610183261461223
Ferguson, N., Farrugia, A., & Dwyer, R. (2026). Working the Boundaries of Care: A Narcofeminist Analysis of Alcohol Consumption Practices Among Nurses and Midwives in Australia. Contemporary Drug Problems, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00914509261460214
Tarafder, T., Sultan, P., Khan, S. I., Ahmed, A. S. I., & Salam, A. (2026). RFID-Enabled Traceability, Anti-Counterfeiting and Sustainability in Apparel and Product-Based Supply Chains: A Scoping Review. Sustainability, 18(18), 9334.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18/18/9334
Haw, A. (2026). The nexus between accessible health communication and information resilience in diverse societies: the case of migrants and people with disability. Health Sociology Review, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2026.2718151
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