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UNE academics edit national sociological journal

October 19, 2004

A stream of publications and the hosting of a national conference has helped a team of academics from the University of New England win the right to edit a prestigious journal on Sociology.
Eight lecturers from several faculties will edit the Journal of Sociology from next year until 2008.
Effectively, they will be responsible for the publishing of academic research into Australian sociology, editing research tomes from sociologists here and overseas.
“After hosting The Australian Sociological Association’s annual conference last year, we were encouraged to bid for the editorship of the Journal,” said Dr Margaret Gibson, one of the successful editors and a lecturer at UNE’s School of Social Science.

“The department has also produced a host of relevant books which has helped boost our profile.”
These include Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture by Dr Gail Hawkes, who is also editing a new book with colleague Dr John Scott entitled, Human Sexuality. Dr Gibson’s book, Objects of the Dead, is due to be published next year.
The Journal of Sociology has been published four times a year over the past 40 years. It is understood a number of other universities from around Australia also tendered for the right to edit the journal.
The editors from UNE are Drs Gibson, Scott, Peter Corrigan, Steven Thiele and Associate Professor David Plummer.
Book review editors are Drs Hawkes, Jennifer Rindfleish and David Gray.
The editorship is further evidence of the growing reputation of UNE’s School of Social Science.
It will also give postgraduate students at UNE the opportunity to be involved in the journal’s production.
For more information phone Lydia Roberts on 6773 2779.



Posted by Lydia Roberts at October 19, 2004 03:48 PM