Right(s) place at the right(s) time: author rights in academic publishing – Webinar on 27 March

Date and time: Mon, 27 March 2023, 14:00 – 15:30 BSTLocation: Online You’ve done the hard work, you’ve written up your findings, you’ve submitted to your journal of choice…and the paper is accepted (hurrah!). What happens next? For many researchers, it’s a bit of a mystery - after all, you’re going to be published, so who …

Call for nominees to the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network committee 2022/23

The MeCCSA Postgraduate Network (PGN) is calling for nominations from postgraduate students (Masters and PhD) interested in joining the PGN Executive Committee for the 2022/2023 academic year. About the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Committee The aim of the Postgraduate Network is to bring together postgraduate students in media, communication and cultural studies from different intellectual traditions …

Apply for the Sussex Doctoral Open Research Prize 2022

As part of its Research England funded initiative to promote Open Research activity at Sussex, the University is pleased to launch its first Doctoral Open Research Prize with a deadline of 13th June 2022. Sussex encourages doctoral students to explore and engage with Open Research practices in their work and study, to maximise the possibility of public …

TOMORROW: Free webinar from Wiley on how to get published

How to get published for Early Career ResearchersWednesday 26 January, 2.30pm GMT Register now Designed especially for doctoral and early-career researchers, this online workshop can help you increase your chances of getting published in an academic journal. The workshop will last for around one hour, including time for our expert speakers to answer your questions. …

Call for Papers: Excursions issue 12.1 on the theme of Home

Excursions Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal run by postgraduates, for postgraduates, at the University of Sussex. It is published online and in print. For the next issue, Excursions invites researchers from all disciplines to reflect on one or several aspects of HOME. Home has long carried connotations of safety, comfort, warmth and familiarity. In …

Check out (Re)connect, the latest issue of Sussex’s Excursions postgraduate journal

It’s time to (re)connect with Excursions!  To connect is an integral part of the human experience. If nothing else, these past 18 months showed us how dependent we are on our connections. In our new issue, Excursions invites you to explore the ways in which individual lives, social processes, and other phenomena are shaped by …

Call for papers: CHASE Brief Encounters Journal [Deadline extended]

Brief Encounters issue 6 is now open for submissions from research students and staff at CHASE-affiliated institutions, including Sussex. They welcome academically rigorous and original articles (500–4,000 words), reviews (500–1,000 words) and creative works. They aim to provide a platform for work that would otherwise be limited to single-discipline conferences, conversations within institutions, or an inspired …

Sussex Humanities Lab + Library seminar: Narrative, Data, Hermeutics: Introducing ‘The Journal of Digital History’

An introduction to the new 'Journal of Digital History' from members of the team involved in its creationWednesday 26 May, 15.00 - 16.30 (UK time), onlineSign up on Eventbrite The Journal of Digital History, which is currently in its final stage of development, is intended to serve as a forum for critical debate and discussion …

Call for papers on the theme of Transformation: Sentio social sciences PGR journal

Sentio is a scholarly journal run by postgraduate researchers from the ESRC-funded Doctoral Training Partnership SeNSS (South East Network for Social Sciences). This peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication for the social sciences will bring together features, short articles and personal reflections on the theme of ‘Transformation’. We invite postgraduate researchers and scholars to reflect on the various uses, meanings, and mobilisations of this concept …

Embracing Chaos: issue 10.1 of Excursions postgraduate journal out now

Excursions is an open access University of Sussex journal run by and for postgraduate researchers. Read the entire issue on the Excursions website. When Excursions chose ‘chaos’ as our theme for 2020, we had no idea how prophetic this choice would turn out to be. A year ago, we published our Call for Papers inviting researchers to …