📣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.
🧠 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.
⚽️ Sports, Politics, and Society Symposium ⚽️
The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies (TMA for HSES) and The Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research and Development (TWC for SRD) will organize their fifteenth International Symposium around the theme: “Sport, Politics, and Society,” from December 1–3, 2026.
📆 When: December 1–3, 2026
🎯 Deadline for proposal submissions: May 31, 2026
📥 Please send your submissions to: tunisian.mediterranean.associ@gmail.com
🔗 More information can be found here.
🌱 Internationalising Vegan Sociology 🌱
The 2026 International Association of Vegan Sociologists annual meeting will showcase research related to veganism, animal rights, and sociological theories of international relevance. They welcome submissions for individual presentations (15 minutes, plus an additional 5 minutes for questions) or panels (45 minutes, plus 15 minutes for questions) to be delivered online.
🎯 Proposals and queries should be sent to info@vegansociology.com by May 31, 2026.
💻 Conference will be held online on October 3–4, 2026.
🔗 More information about the conference can be found here.
Digital and Sexual Citizenship in an Age of Social Media Bans: Interrogating the Rights of Children and Young People
Many Western countries, including Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, are signatories to the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nonetheless, the rights of children and adolescents are increasingly impacted by laws, such as the recent social media ban, and policies prohibiting students’ use of mobile phones in schools. Often, children’s views on laws and policies that impact their rights are either not sought at all or paid scant attention. This is in contravention of Article 12 which grants all children who are capable of forming their own views the right to express them freely in all matters that affect them, requiring that these views are “given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.”
This conference welcomes papers exploring the impact of law and policy on young people’s rights and lived experience, as well as papers that explore children’s agency and digital sexual citizenship more broadly. Designed as an academic conference that promotes new knowledge and scholarship in this area, it also aims to include young people as participants.
Please send your 200-word abstract, or 500-word panel proposal, and short bios by 20 April 2026 to: DigitalCitizenship@ecu.edu.au
When:6–8 July, 2026
Where:Perth, Australia (in-person only).
More information can be found in the Word doc here.
📣Call for New Editorial Team for Health Sociology Review Journal📣
Applications are invited for the editorship of Health Sociology Review (HSR) for the three-year term 2027–2029.
Health Sociology Review is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness and medicine.
Published three times per year, the journal prioritises original research papers, papers that advance theory and methodology in health sociology, and special issues on matters of central importance to health sociology and related fields.
Applications close on Monday, June 22, 2026
More information 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