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Job Opportunity: RA (.4) for 6 months Feb 2023- ARC study on Australian far-right with me, Bryan Turner, Pam Nilan and Mario Peucker. Seeking: - sociology / interdisciplinary - good knowledge of far-right - qual/quant skills - publication experience AVERT Research Network TASA

📢 We're hiring more political scientists! 👇 1 x Lecturer in comparative politics 1 x Lecturer in polisci research methods 1 x Lecturer in public policy 1 x Senior Lecturer in public policy Come and work with me and my exceedingly lovely colleagues! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/listing/

My contribution focused on mutualism on Australian heritage breed farms rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Lara McKenzie (Lara McKenzie) is a Research Fellow. Her work focuses on #love, #gender, #age, #relationships, #precarity, and #COVID19 and #vaccination. UWA Research doi.org/10.1002/fea2.1…

Read this awesome new piece of speculative fiction on pig breeding by Catie Gressier and Lauri Turner! @TheSocReview

Our 2023 seminar series kicks off with Yu TAO and his research on #religious affiliation amongst the #Chinese community in #Australia UWA Research

A delight to work on this paper with fab undergrad placement student Eliza Keays plus Lara McKenzie, Leah Roberts, Christopher Blyth, and @samicarlson .

'We sought to understand the attitudes of Western Australian parents regarding mandating COVID-19 vaccines for children... Over half of the parents supported COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children, while the rest had opposing, nuanced or indifferent views' doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.2…

Pleased to share new article led by Lara McKenzie from the Coronavax project. Explores the vaccine attitudes, experiences, and identities of older adults early in Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout. New theory on pro-vaccine socialities. @VaxPolLab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

New publication from Lara McKenzie & @statz_soapbox on older people's pro-vaccination identities & social worlds during the pandemic #COVID-19 #vaccination #pandemic #openaccess @VaxPolLab fyi Amit Chakma 🇦🇺🇨🇦 Tim Colmer Anna Nowak UWA Public Policy Institute @uwaresearch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

New OA article by TASA member Lara McKenzie et al. ‘I’m provax’: Pro-vaccination personal histories and socialities of older Australians in the COVID-19 pandemic buff.ly/3ZV84UI

PhD candidates spend 3-4 years earning less than minimum wage and receiving zero super contributions, while making significant advances in Australian research. It's archaic, hurts disadvantaged candidates, and has to change. This is a step in the right direction, please sign!

Some thoughts on the role and value of backyard chooks in Australia in times of crisis... environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/backya…

Such a privilege to be part of this collaboration in Nature (!!) between Indigenous community members from across southern Africa, and researchers in Europe, RSA and the US, examining some of the issues with research codes and contracts:nature.com/articles/s4155…

The NTEU commissioned this important Centre for Future Work report, out today. It's clear the vast majority of Australians are concerned about unis suffering from corporatisation, insecure work & funding cuts. Sign our pledge to fix higher ed! nteu.au/News_Articles/… Herald Sun