Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our Collections. Collections at HSS Comms provide a high-profile venue for topics of substantial interest to the community. Papers included in a Collection are published in the journal and featured on our Collection page.

  • Expertise in integration and implementation for transformative research

    Collection examining the specialised knowledge, skills, competencies and dispositional attributes required to identify which disciplinary and stakeholder knowledges are relevant, synthesise different perspectives, manage power imbalances and legacies of colonisation in researching problems, and accommodate conflicting values and world views, including across different cultures.
    • Gabriele Bammer, PhD
    • Tigran Keryan, PhD
    • BinBin Jiang Pearce, PhD
    • Marianne Penker, PhD
    • Michael O’Rourke, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 December 2025

  • Humanising epidemiology: non-medical investigations into epi/pandemic phenomena

    This Collection welcomes research that examines the role and contributions of the social sciences in shaping the global response to public health crises.
    • Diaa Ahmed Mohamed Ahmedien, PhD
    • Shen Lamson Lin, PhD
    • Michael Ochsner, PhD
    • Alessandro Santirocchi, PhD
    • Abdou Simon Senghor, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 23 July 2024

  • Migration, poverty and inequality

    This Collection welcomes research that explores migration studies and allied areas of enquiry, which speak to the issue of migration and poverty.
    • Salvatore Capasso, PhD
    • Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual. PhD
    • Bimal Kishore Sahoo, PhD
    • Jonas Wood, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 September 2024

  • Making and using evidence

    This Collection explores the methods of making and using evidence in the process of policymaking, including empirical, methodological and theoretical work.
    • Annette Boaz, PhD
    • Robert Borst, PhD
    • Alec Fraser, PhD
    • Kathryn Oliver, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 December 2024

  • Studies in horror and the Gothic

    Research engaging with the study of horror and the Gothic through literature, film, television, new media, and beyond.
    • John Edgar Browning, PhD.
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 September 2024

  • Perspectives on soft power

    An exploration of all aspects of soft power, from approaches to framing foreign-policy agendas, to the strategies that countries use to persuade and elicit positive attraction in order to obtain preferred outcomes.
    • Nick Anguelov, PhD
    • Seow Ting Lee, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 August 2024

  • Global governance

    This Collection welcomes research that explores the concept and practice of global governance, from a diverse range of vantage points.
    • Angélica Guerra-Barón, PhD
    • Rakhyun E. Kim, PhD
    • Wai-Man Lam, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 11 June 2024