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.

  • Modernity and the gut

    This Collection welcomes research that aims to better theorise the gut and its relationship to modernity, with an emphasis on how modernity affects the gut.
    • Maya Hey, PhD
    • Manon Mathias, DPhil
    • Elsa Richardson, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 08 June 2024

  • Digital children: well-being in the online environment

    This Collection welcomes research that addresses the challenges and opportunities for children growing up in the digital era.
    • Michael James Day, PhD
    • Sofia Mastrokoukou, PhD
    • Łukasz Tomczyk, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 04 June 2024

  • Neoliberalism and global poverty alleviation

    This Collection welcomes research investigating the growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor, as well as new avenues and systems to reverse this.
    • Justin Cruickshank, PhD
    • Regina Maria da Cruz Queiroz, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 July 2024

  • Cybercrime: human and socio-economic perspectives

    This Collection welcomes research that focuses primarily on the human, and socio-economic impacts of cybercrime and digital security.
    • Gabriele Baratto, PhD
    • Tomáš Diviák, PhD
    • Hai Thanh Luong, PhD
    • Peng Wang, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 June 2024

  • Play and playfulness

    This Collection welcomes research on play and playfulness, including their psychological, anthropological, sociological, historical and cultural basis.
    • Francesca Giovanna Maria Gastaldi
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 June 2024

  • Religious belief and politics

    This Collection welcomes research on themes related to religious faith or religiously inspired ideology in politics at the international and domestic levels.
    • Rasool Akbari
    • Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi
    • Sarah Carol
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 August 2024