📣SAANZ Student Engagement Officers Call-Out📣
SAANZ will support you in organising events that promote sociological research and thinking at both the local and cross-institutional levels, and act as a conduit between your local student body and SAANZ.
It’s an EXCITING opportunity to gain experience in academic leadership, networking, and event management while making meaningful contributions and lasting connections to both the local and national research community.
If you are a current postgraduate student engaged with Sociology or a related discipline and passionate about strengthening the student research community, we’d love to work with you! 🤗
👉🏼 Interested in this role? Please contact Java for more information.
⚖️ Lecturer in Criminology ⚖️
We are seeking a Lecturer in Criminology to contribute to teaching, postgraduate supervision, and administration within the School of Psychological and Social Sciences. The successful candidate will maintain and develop an active research programme and contribute to professional, community, and iwi engagement relevant to the discipline.
You will join a dynamic and interdisciplinary school committed to excellence in teaching and research, fostering student success, and supporting research that contributes positively to communities in Aotearoa, New Zealand and internationally.
The role includes undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, supervision of student research, curriculum development, and contribution to the wider Criminology Programme. The successful applicant will contribute to a collaborative academic environment and demonstrate a commitment to innovative and inclusive teaching practices.
While many core responsibilities are consistent across Lecturer to Professor levels, progression in the role is marked by the delivery of teaching at an increasingly high standard, greater impact and leadership in research, and a growing contribution to academic governance. This includes advancing your discipline through recognised scholarship, fostering student success, and providing leadership within the University and the wider academic community.
Salary will be in the range of $92,603 to $110,407 per year, based on the skills, knowledge, and experience brought to the position. This is a full-time role (37.5 hours a week), based at either our Hamilton or Tauranga Campus.
🔗 For more information on the role, please see the position description.
🎯 Application deadline: June 28, 2026.
👉🏼 Apply now here.
📥 For a confidential conversation about the role, please contact Vincent Reid, Head of School, vincent.reid@waikato.ac.nz.
📌 All applications must be submitted through the online portal. Emailed applications will not be accepted.
🧠 Social Conditions, Clinical Logics: Rethinking Young People’s Engagement with Drug Treatment 🧠
This special issue from the International Journal of Drug Policy invites submissions that explore or examine how the social conditions of young people’s substance use shape their engagement in drug treatment. Editors are looking for papers that critically explore, among other things, biomedical and psychologised approaches to AOD care, how contexts of crisis and social inequity shape treatment experience, and how treatment might be experienced differently by First Nations, LGBTQ+, refugee, migrant and racialized youth.
🎯 Abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2026
🔗 More information can be found here.
🎙️ Women Talking Politics 🎙️
Contributions are invited for Women Talking Politics, a specific issue from the New Zealand Political Studies Association. Cis-women, trans women, women of colour and non-binary contributors are invited to reflect on how resistance and resilience are researched, practised, embodied, theorised, and imagined. Editors are particularly interested in work that critiques power — that interrogates institutions, challenges complacency, and traces the messy realities of change.
This year’s issue will be launched at The 2026 Conference for the Social Sciences: He Kai Kei Aku Ringa.
A range of different formats and submissions are welcome, and should be submitted to womentalkingpolitics@nzpsa.co.nz on a rolling basis until July 15, 2026.
🔗 More information can be found here.
📕 Read the latest edition here.
✈️ ‘What is Transience?’ One-Day Hybrid Conference ✈️
📍 RMIT University, Melbourne | February 11, 2027
This one-day hybrid conference explores how the concept of transience has shifted over the last decade, across migration, mobility, policy, media, and human rights. Organised by the team behind Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, it welcomes emerging and established scholars working across themes including populism, precarity, agency, representation, and new forms of transient migration.
🎯 Abstracts due July 1, 2026, submitted to catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au
🏅 Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi: Call for Fellow nominations🏅
Nominations for Fellowship (or Honorary Fellowship) of the Royal Society Te Apārangi are now open. Fellowship is an honour proposed by one’s peers and conferred for Distinction in research, or the outcomes resulting from intellectual endeavour (Advancement).
✉️ To submit or update a nomination for a Fellow (or Honorary Fellow), please email academy@royalsociety.org.nz to receive a URL to access the online portal.
🎯 Applications due June 30, 2026.
👉🏼 More details can be found here.
🌐 2027 World Congress of Sociology 🌐
The XXI International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology will take place in Gwangju, South Korea, from July 4–10, 2027, as a fully in-person event. Under the theme “Global Sociology in Turbulent Times”, the World Congress will bring together a global community of researchers driven by the shared conviction that sociology has a crucial role to play in making sense of these turbulent times.
🔗 Read the full congress theme here.
🎤 Call for Sessions is now open:
- ISA has now opened calls for Sessions, closing on June 25, 2026.
- 🔗 More information on the submission guidelines can be found here.
📌 Call for Abstracts will open in August 2026.
📊 10th Biennial Social Science Methodology Conference 📊
The 10th Biennial Social Science Methodology conference will occur from 24-26 November 2026 at the University of Sydney, hosted by the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc. (ACSPRI) in conjunction with the Australian Social Network Analysis Conference (ASNAC). The conference is multi-disciplinary and brings together researchers and methodologists from a range of environments and contexts. By running the ACSPRI and ASNAC in conjunction in 2026, all attendees will benefit from sharing their methodological knowledge across domains. Social Network Analysis-related proposals will be reviewed by ASNAC representatives.
📣 Call for proposals: Now to end June 2026
📅 When: November 24–26 (Tuesday–Thursday), 2026
📍 Location: University of Sydney
Attending the 2026 ACSPRI Conference
The 2026 ACSPRI Conference is an in-person event. Plenary and keynote sessions will also be streamed live via Zoom for those who want to follow along remotely. If you plan to present, you will be expected to attend in person, though exceptions may be possible with the agreement of your session chair.
📥 Get in touch at conference@acspri.org.au if you need to discuss alternative arrangements.
🛏️ For venue, transport, and accommodation details, visit the conference location page.
👉🏼 Find out more and register here.
Seeking a Discussant for an Online Conference
SAANZ Member Dr. Noel Packard is looking for a discussant for a session entitled, “Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour” for the 2nd RC20 Regional Conference on Comparative Sociology, the 1st RC56 Regional Conference on Historical Sociology, and the 5th RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology: Asia in Khon Kaen, Thailand and Tokyo, Japan. The conference will be held from 24th to 28th August 2026.
The discussant would join a panel focusing specifically on how Max Weber and Karl Marx had different approaches regarding what happens when machines dominate human labour.
Interested in being a discussant? Please send a statement of interest/introduction to Noel Packard at: npac825@aucklanduni.ac.nz before August 1, 2026.
🔗 More information about the conference can be found here
🔗 More information about the session can be found here
🧑🏫 Lecturer in Geography, Sociology, and Political Science 🧑🏫
The Academy of Geography, Sociology, and International Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University is looking for Lecturers in Geography, Sociology and Political Science.
The Academy invites applications for new Lecturer positions to teach courses in human geography, physical geography, public administration, general sociology, statistics, research methods, and advanced topics in quantitative analysis across these disciplines.
✉️ For enquiries, please contact: gsis@hkbu.edu.hk.
👉🏼 More information about the role can be found here.
🧑🏫 Lecturer -Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology 🧑🏫
The Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology seeks to appoint one permanent Lecturer post with expertise relevant to criminology and/or critical social policy to join our department in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool.
This post is open to candidates with a PhD (completed or submitted and awaiting viva) and teaching experience in a relevant subject who have an established track record of research excellence and substantive plans for developing their research profile into the future. We would particularly welcome outstanding candidates with expertise around issues of ‘race’ and ethnicity, social exclusion, and/or quantitative research methods. However, we will consider all strong applications from candidates willing to contribute across our programmes in criminology, sociology and social policy and methodologies. A commitment to social justice will be complementary to the strong social justice legacy and programmes of research for which the Department is renowned.
Interviews are expected to take place 25 June 2026.
See here for more details: Lecturer – Grade 7/8 at University of Liverpool
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Proposals for special issues in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (JRSNZ) are invited from scientists anywhere in the world. JRSNZ particularly welcomes interdisciplinary themes and topics not covered by their specialist titles (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science and related fields). JRSNZ is indexed in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed, ensuring strong international visibility.
You do not need to be affiliated with the Society to submit a proposal. Applications are encouraged from researchers at any career stage, provided they can demonstrate standing in the field and the ability to attract high-quality contributors. If you would like to propose a special issue for JRSNZ, please contact publish@royalsociety.org.nz.
Social Moments: A Student Journal of Social Relations – Call for Papers
Social Moments is a free, online, peer-reviewed student journal examining society and culture through a social science lens. Disciplines include sociology, criminology, gender and sexuality studies, political science, social psychology, anthropology, and cultural/social geography.
The journal publishes research articles (approx. 5,000 words), book reviews (up to 3,000 words), and perspective pieces critiquing key concepts or ideas in the field. Graduate students are prioritised, though undergraduate contributions are also welcome.
Submissions (Rolling – no deadlines)
- Who can submit? Undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences.
- Requirements: Submissions must be original, polished, and not under review or published elsewhere.
- Format: Word document only; approx. 5,000 words (max). Use APA referencing, Times New Roman 12pt, double-spaced, 1” margins. Include:
- Page 1: Title page with author details
- Page 2: 50–75 word author bio
- Page 3: Abstract (≤150 words)
- Review process: Blind peer review with a decision of Accept / Revise & Resubmit / Reject (usually within 3 months).
Want to Review?
Faculty and advanced graduate students are invited to serve as reviewers. Reviews are blind and expected within 30 days.
🔗 More information can be found here.
📧: For more inquiries, you can contact them at Social.Moments.Student.Journal@gmail.com