New journal – families, relationships and societies ….

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 (FRS) is a new social science journal designed to advance
scholarship and debate in the growing field of families and relationships
across the life course. It will explore family life, relationships and
generational issues from interdisciplinary, social science perspectives,
whilst maintaining a solid grounding in sociological theory and methods and
a strong policy and practice focus. The title ‘Families, Relationships
and Societies’ encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of
contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be
understood in the context of different societies and cultures.

International and comprehensive in scope, the journal covers a range of
theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from the complexities
of time, space and social change, to debates around family forms, practices
and resources, intergenerational care and support, intimacy,
individualisation, inter-dependency, identity, gender and generation.
Encouraging methodological innovation, a life course perspective and
dynamic approaches, the journal will transcend traditional boundaries that
typically focus on one life course stage, one configuration of families or
relationships, or one society.

The applied focus of the journal will embrace a diverse global field and
encourage a critical engagement with policy and practice developments and
issues within and across welfare regimes. A unique feature will be an
‘open space’ section within the journal which will provide an
opportunity for debates across domains.

Call for papers
Submissions to the journal are invited from subject areas across the social
sciences and related life course disciplines, for example, sociology,
social policy, social work, childhood studies, demography, youth studies,
family studies, gender studies, ageing and gerontology, health and social
care, education, psychology, social history, socio-legal studies, politics,
criminology, and psycho-social studies. Papers will be expected to have
relevance to academic, policy and practitioner audiences, enabling a wide
range of perspectives to be brought together in one place to foster
innovation and development within disciplines and advance interdisciplinary
research and practice.

Articles should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words (including references) in
length. An abstract of not more than 150 words should be included. All
articles are refereed to assess their suitability for publication.

For further information or to submit a paper please email the Editors c/o
frs-journal@bath.ac.uk. Authors are encouraged to submit electronic copy
and should be sent as an attached file in Word, or Rich Text format.
Articles should be anonymised, ready for sending to referees and be
accompanied by an email address or note giving full contact details of the
author(s) and, in the case of jointly authored articles, nominating an
author for correspondence.

For more information on the key themes to be explored in the journal see:

http://www.policypress.co.uk/journals_frs_cfp.asp?

For full Notes for contributors see:

http://www.policypress.co.uk/PDFs/General/FRS%20Notes%20for%20contributors%
20FINAL.pdf

All content free to view online in 2012!
Sign up for a free trial for 2012 to view all the available content as it
is published. This trial is available for both individuals and
institutions. Email: tpp-frs-trial@bristol.ac.uk with your full name and
contact address. You will receive an acknowledgement and an alert when the
trial begins in March 2012 when the first issue is published.

Volume 1 2012 3 issues
Print ISSN 2046-7435
Online ISSN 2046-7443

More information about the journal is available on the Families,
Relationships and Societies pages on The Policy Press website:
www.policypress.co.uk/journals.asp