In our new publication, Helen Keane and I explore the development of ‘critical drug studies’ as a field. We consider what makes the field 'critical', what is included in the category of 'drugs', and what kinds of 'studies' are carried out by critical drug scholars. lnkd.in/gG9c9g6Y

New article by TASA member Kiran Pienaar et al.: Narrating Suffering Through the Lens of Trauma: A Narcofeminist Analysis of Addiction Narratives journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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So excited to be organising Schooling and Sexualities 4 - a decennial legacy conference about gender and sexuality justice and schooling. Please share this call for papers and consider joining us in Adelaide.

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CFP! 🌈🎓 Schooling and Sexualities 4 will take place at Adelaide University on September 30 and October 1 2026. Abstract submissions are now open: shorturl.at/F2Zuu

Our new article examines drinking among nurses, focusing on its contribution to professional relationship and responsibilities. Overall, we argue that rather than reducing drinking to a maladaptive effort to “cope” with work, it is better understood as part of work itself. shorturl.at/FhicY

New paper! Presence, absence, and contingent engagement: mobilising care in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination. Led by Sophia Schroeder in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social, from our NHMRC Synergy project with @burnetinstitute.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Equivalence of care? A scoping review of prison healthcare experiences of women and non-binary people who use drugs” by Pip Buckingham and colleagues (2026) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…is prison healthcare truly equivalent? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PrisonPolicy

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:3, featuring 14 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, 45 Years of Manufacturing Consent, on Michael Burawoy’s seminal work. Guest edited by Constantine Manolchev, Ryan Nolan @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/0mk3Tf4 @journals.sagepub.com

#CFPs Indigenous queer health and wellbeing: Anticolonial meanings and praxis Health Sociology Review 2027 Special Issue Submit by 12 April For the full details, visit www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

Our latest publication examines how the relationship between intoxication and everyday life is articulated through young people’s accounts of alcohol and other drug pleasures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Who’s afraid of #Reviewer2? Journal editors @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sweta Rajan-Rankin @silkeroth.bsky.social and Maud Perrier demystify the much-maligned peer review process – and all the care, thought and reflection that goes into it – in the Magazine’s latest issue. buff.ly/fekw1xq

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

“Is drug-use stigma a breach of human rights law?: Insights from Australia” by Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear, & @carlatreloar.bsky.social (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy…what do you think? Is drug use stigma a breach of human rights law? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now published in Contemporary Drug Problems - online first #drugs #queerstudies #criticaldrugstudies

**IMPORTANT** Macquarie Uni is proposing to cut Sociology entirely 11 of 14 staff may be made redundant, and student choice severely limited. After 60+ years, Sociology and Politics could vanish from MQ. 🖊️ Sign the petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa... #SaveSociology #HigherEd #MQcuts

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and most recognisable research discipline - removing it from the university's program is like losing a key piece from the jig saw puzzle of social science.  Once it is gone, students wanting to master knowledge and develop research expertise about modern societies would be well advised to pursue their...

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Recent article by TASA member Kiran Pienaar et al. Undoing Minority Stress: Rethinking Queer and Gender-Diverse Substance Use journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Plenary sessions showcasing "Real People, Real Action, Real Results" announced for the 15th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference happening this 6-8 August in Naarm (Melbourne). Register for #VH2025: www.hepatitis.org.au/registration...

Led by Emily Lenton, our new article examines how the process of producing medical records can be implicated in stigma. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

TASA 2025 General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025! 🔗 www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...

Three (2 at Deakin & 1 at ECU) PhD scholarship opportunities are available as part of a new Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project: Youth Futures after Mobility The full details are available via a Word document available here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

For the second webinar in AIVL's 'You Can't Say That' series, we reflect on the historical exclusion of women who use drugs from traditional feminist spaces and advocacy. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BBIJeo6ERtSTiA78XDZ3sQ#/registration  #narcofeminism #humanrights

Only 20 days left! General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025! 🔗 www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...

Our team developed a brand new AIVL Media & Communications Guide by people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction lens.🔍🤩💊💉💜 It aims to help reporters and people writing for media ensure their coverage promotes an accurate and informed narrative: aivl.org.au/resources/re...

Love to see @outhistory have added Positive Images to their Bookshelf (outhistory.org/items/show/6...).

Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Who's Represented/What's Unrepresentable: AI and Race

Thao Phan and Fabian Offert (paper 1) and Maya Indira Ganesh (paper 2).

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My latest article examines how drug education professionals understand and respond to the relationship between alcohol and other drug consumption, sex and harm. Focusing on agency, I analyse how these professionals constitute the locus of harm and how this impacts drug education responses.

**JOB OPP** Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology (part-time) University of Sydney Apps close on April 27th For details, visit usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology

Work with Dr Leah Williams Veazey and the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team to generate foundational knowledge about healthcare worker migration to and from Australia Part-time (0.5FTE) for 1 y...

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My latest article examines how drug education professionals understand and respond to the relationship between alcohol and other drug consumption, sex and harm. Focusing on agency, I analyse how these professionals constitute the locus of harm and how this impacts drug education responses.

Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference

The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sessions, pre-s…

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Led by Gemma Nourse, our new article examines stigma in healthcare as a biopolitical spatial-temporal phenomenon that shapes relationships between people, time, space and technologies of service provision. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Stigmatising space-times: Addressing healthcare stigma beyond interpersonal interactions - Gemma Nourse, Adrian Farrugia, Kate Seear, Emily Lenton, Elena Cama, Carla Treloar, 2025

Stigma related to blood-borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been shown to undermine the quality of healthcare. Given the pervasi...

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