Category: Getting published

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Cambridge Scholars Press are publishing a new book series, edited by Prof. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), titled Post-Intercultural Communication and Education. According to their announcement: This book series, eclectic in scope, seeks to extend and revitalize scholarship on intercultural communication and education by publishing innovative, interdisciplinary and critical analyses of intercultural encounters. “Post-intercultural” refers to a recent paradigm shift in the […]

Young reviewers are certainly sought after. “The best referees are postdocs,” says Leslie Sage, a senior physical-sciences editor at Nature in Washington DC. “They are at the top of their game, well versed in the literature and politically naive enough to tell the truth.” For this and more interesting insights into the peer-review process, you may want to have a look into […]

I am just starting to read a book edited by Lucy Green entitled “Learning, teaching and musical identity: voices across cultures” (2011) and was intrigued by how Green positions the chapters by the different researchers vis-a-vis expectations of the research report genre: “The researchers followed standard ethical procedures, including giving participants the right to withdraw and to remain anonymous, seeking […]

I am pleased to have two book chapters out in quick succession: Davcheva, L, Fay, R. and Byram M. (Dec 2011). Zones of interculturality in postgraduate doctorate supervision. In F. Derwin, A. Gajardo A. and Lavanchy, F. (eds.), Politics of interculturality,(pp.127-149). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3365-3 / Isbn: 1-4438-3365-7 http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Politics-of-Interculturality1-4438-3365-7.htm This volume also contains chapters by: Fred Dervin, Catherine Doherty, […]

Mair, M., Watson, P., Elsey, C., & P. V. Smith (forthcoming). War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of ‘friendly fire, forthcoming in British Journal of Sociology (details to follow). — This article is the further development an earlier conference paper [ppt]

Announcement: English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Volume 13 is now available online. English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) – ISSN 1365-3741 – is an annual peer-reviewed journal for the worldwide ELT community which is produced by the English Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment (ELLTA) Research Group of the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. It seeks […]

Families, relationships and societies Journal: Call for papers Families, Relationships and Societies An international journal of research and debate Joint Managing Editors: Tess Ridge, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath and Brid Featherstone, National University of Ireland, Galway Publisher: The Policy Press Aims and scope Starting in 2012, with 3 issues per annum, Families, Relationships and Societies […]

 Introducing ‘‘Journal of Language and Culture” The Journal of Language and Culture (JLC) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published monthly by Academic Journals (www.academicjournals.org/JLC). JLC is dedicated to increasing the depth of research across all areas language and culture.    Call for Papers JLC welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence in […]

Details of a new journal called Multicultural learning and teaching. Multicultural Learning and Teaching (MLT) is a multidisciplinary international journal that explores the education of people from diverse multicultural backgrounds in a variety of learning environments, inside and outside the classroom. The journal focuses on the broad implications of multicultural learning and teaching practices around the world, going beyond traditional […]

The International Journal of English Studies (IJES) is an international peer-reviewed journal in the general field of English Studies, which covers topics related to English Language and Linguistics, Applied English Linguistics, Literature in English and Culture of the English-speaking countries. Published twice a year, IJES attracts contributions from both nationally and internationally acclaimed scholars and is indexed, among others, in […]

Some of you know that I am in the editorial team of the Journal of English as an International Language. Despite the fancy title of ‘Editor’ (a gross case of ‘title inflation’), all I really do is forward papers to people from a pool of reviewers, or occassionally review them myself if the topic is within my sphere of expertise. […]