📣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.
🎙️ 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.
🧠 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.
🌐 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.
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