About the Global Social Challenges Journal

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About the Global Social Challenges Journal

Learn about our aims and scope, what we are looking for, the Journal themes, and who to contact.

Aims and scope

How can we reimagine society in an era of climate change, pandemic, hunger, poverty, questions of racial, ethnic and gender justice and other pressing global societal challenges? Significant threats and dangers lie ahead of us, but so do opportunities, as new ways of being, thinking and doing emerge. This new fully Open Access journal aims to facilitate thinking about these positive new trajectories and to become the journal of choice to address the complexities of global social challenges across disciplines and fields. It will be the first such journal to be based in the social sciences, while also engaging with research from humanities, arts and STEM. Including marginalised, minority and Indigenous world views, the journal will be an important home for research which contributes to the creation of alternative futures that acknowledge past injustices and are socially and environmentally just and sustaining. It will also welcome conceptual and methodological developments which expand our thinking and enable greater understanding.

The Global Social Challenges Journal will facilitate the publication of multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research internationally within and beyond academia as well as welcoming single-discipline work. Engaging with innovative and critical perspectives, including decolonial and southern epistemologies and their relationship with those of the Global North, it will respond directly to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and encompass co-production and other participatory approaches. The journal will recognise new methodologies, offering a range of novel and more traditional outputs. Highly accessible, impactful and policy-facing, it hopes to foster dialogue between academics, policy makers, thought leaders, NGOs, practitioners and the public. By publishing fully Open Access evidence-based, collaborative work in the collective interest through a not-for-profit university press, the journal will enable the sharing of knowledge needed to help build a fairer world, across and for the Global South and North.

What we are looking for

We welcome submissions for research articles (up to 8500 words) and 'Interventions'. Interventions are shorter (up to 3500 words) interjections aimed at giving readers a more textured sense of the events, impacts and debates that inspire, shape and sometimes challenge the core research contributions of the journal. We also welcome submissions for special collections. See our 'for authors' pages for further information

Journal themes

These are linked to but not limited by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

We will aim to address these and other issues in the context of their interplay with systemic divisions resulting from class, racialisation, gender and sexuality.