CALL FOR PAPERS Issue 24 (Volume 10, Issue 3 2024)

2023-12-12

Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning is Canada’s online open-access, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal committed to profiling best practices in ‘engaged scholarship’ informed by community-academic partnerships in research, teaching and learning. The Journal occasionally publishes hard copies of its issues as well.

Our Mission is to promote and support reciprocal and meaningful co-creation of knowledge among scholars, educators, professionals and community leaders, in Canada and worldwide; to inspire and promote productive dialogue between practice and theory of engaged scholarship; to critically reflect on engaged scholarship, research, and pedagogy pursued by various university and community partners, working locally, nationally and internationally, across various academic disciplines and areas of application; to serve as a forum of constructive debate on the meanings and applications of engaged scholarship among partners and communities

Engaged scholarship most commonly refers to a range of collaborative research, teaching, and learning  initiatives rooted in sustained community-university partnerships and pursued across various disciplines and social and cultural contexts. Community engaged research is oftentimes understood to be community informed, situated as well as action-oriented such that the research process and results are useful to community members in making positive societal changes.

For our non-thematic Issue 24, Summer 2024, we invite contributions from community and university based researchers, teachers, and scholars who actively and purposefully participate in community-engaged research across in various cultural settings and disciplines, in Canada and beyond, and whose work speaks well to the Mission of the Journal.

We invite previously unpublished original reflective essays and research articles, review articles, reports from the field, testimonies, multimedia contributions and book reviews focusing on community-engaged scholarship. We welcome contributions from community and academic partners, educators, researchers and scholars who pursue their work in collaboration with various communities in Canada and the world.

For guidelines for submissions please visit http://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/index.

Please submit your contribution by February 28, 2024. All submissions will undergo either editorial or peer review. Submissions for the Essays Section of the Journal will be subject to double anonymized peer review, submissions to other Journal sections will undergo editorial review.

Essays to be subject to blind peer reviewing should:

  • Represent original, unpublished work that is not under consideration by other journals or collections of essays
  • Written in accessible language, to respect multidisciplinary nature of the Journal and the diversity of our readers. Acronyms and abbreviations should be kept to the minimum.
  • Be maximum 8,000 words
  • Include an abstract (200 words) and indicate up to five keywords
  • Be typed, double-spaced throughout, in 12-pt Times New Roman font
  • Be formatted in the American Psycholog5cal Association (APA) style, 6th edition
  • Have a separate cover page that includes the names, institutional affiliations, addresses, and contact information of all authors
  • Include author biography/ies (no more than 50 words per author) on a separate sheet
  • Indicate that appropriate Institutional Research Ethics Board approval was secured, if applicable
  • Be formatted and saved in Microsoft Word (no PDF please)
  • Be submitted in two versions, one should include all information to be published, and in the other copy information to be ‘blinded’ should be substituted with blank underlined spaces. Information to be ‘blinded’ includes all text or data that will have to be removed from the essay for blind peer review purposes
  • Submission should be accompanied by authors’ recommendations of at least four scholars, including community-based scholars when applicable, from the author’s field who the Journal may approach with the request to peer review of the issue’s contributions. Such recommendations should include the description of (a) the credentials of the prospective reviewers as well as (b) the professional distance between the authors and the proposed reviewers.

Please submit your materials via ESJ's website.

Deadline for all contributions: February 28, 2024

Projected date of publication: Summer 2024

 

For submission guidelines consult http://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/information/authors, or talk to us at

the Journal.

 

 

 

Engaged Scholar Journal

Lori Bradford, Editor

Lynn Caldwell, Assistant Editor

Penelope Sanz, Managing Editor

University of Saskatchewan

Room 332.1 Thorvaldson Building

110 Science Place

Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 CANADA

Tel. No.: +1306-966-2665

Fax. No.: +1306-966-5571

Email: engaged.scholar@usask.ca