Collections and calls for papers

- SDG 01 - End poverty in all its forms

We are calling for articles to our new Collection No poverty, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 1. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for researchers and stakeholders wor...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2030

- SDG 04 - Quality Education

We are calling for articles to our new Collection on Quality Education, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 4. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for researchers and stakeh...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2030

- SDG 05 - Gender Equality

We are calling for articles to our new Collection on Gender Equality, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 5. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for researchers and stakehol...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2030

- SDG 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries

We are calling for articles to our new Collection on Reduced inequalities, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 10. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for researchers and st...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2030

- SDG 11 - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

We are calling for articles to our new Collection on Sustainable cities and communities, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 11. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for rese...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2030

- SDG 13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

We are calling for articles to our new Collection on Climate action, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 13. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for researchers and stakehol...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2030

- SDG 16 - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

We are calling for articles to our new Collection on Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 16. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for ...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2030

- SDG 17 - Partnership for the Goals

We are calling for articles to our new Collection on Partnership for the Goals, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 17. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for researchers a...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2030

Agent‐Based Modelling: Applications in Policy Making

Agent-based Modeling (ABM) is a bottom-up analysis methodology. It allows the creation of "artificial societies" in which many entities, endowed with rules at the micro-level, interact within an environment ...

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Closed

Call for Papers- Gender identities and affective-sexual diversity in social studies and literary education.

The uncritical maintenance of androcentric socializing bases in the teaching of history, social sciences, and children's and youth literature, consolidates the invisibility of gender identities as social age...

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Closed

Challenges and Limits to Personal Diplomacy

Among the many roles played by political decision-makers, one of the most important is that of the personal relations between leaders, that is, the personal diplomacy performed by heads of state and heads of...

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Closed

Digital Hate and (Anti-)Social Media

The terrorist attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in spring 2019, brought to the fore the ways social media is used by terrorists and their sympathisers to host and circulate material that promo...

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Closed

Higher Education for Innovation and Sustainable Development

Universities are often perceived as ivory towers, far removed from the realities that confront global societies. To compound this, questions around the relevance of higher education in providing practical an...

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Closed

Mixed Research Methods in the Training of Social Sciences Teachers

Teacher training is an issue of current interest at an international level. Analysis of trainee teachers’ knowledge is considered crucial in being able to direct their initial training programmes. Empirical ...

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Closed

Narrative, Emotions, and Social Change between Global and Local Space

Narrative is a powerful tool in the life of individuals that determines their decisions and also their imagination of the future. This collection aims to bring together theoretical, empirical and interdiscip...

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Closed

Reimagining STEM learning and development in early childhood: Play-based challenges and perspectives

Overcoming traditional or emerging dichotomies between play and learning in the early years is critical for early childhood education practice and research. Developing and implementing play-based settings in...

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Closed

Social and Spatial Inequalities: Processes, Impacts and Policies

This research article collection will showcase cutting-edge research on the multidimensional and relational concept of ‘inequality’, bringing together contributions, both quantitative and qualitative, theore...

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Closed

Synthetic Media and Synthetic Reality: From Deepfakes to Virtual Worlds

The term ‘synthetic media’ can be used to describe a broad range of content generated, in whole or in part, by employing machine learning or other means of automatic content generation. Such content is curre...

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Closed