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Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our Collections. Collections at HSS Comms provide a high-profile venue for topics of substantial interest to the community. Papers included in a Collection are published in the journal and featured on our Collection page.

  • Corruption beyond borders: power, crime, and governance

    This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection seeks scholarship that treats corruption and its counterpart – anti-corruption – as multi-dimensional, global processes. We welcome submissions from political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, economists, criminologists, development experts, data scientists and others.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 January 2027

    • Learning spaces and classroom design

      This Collection explores the ways in which classroom design and learning environments fundamentally shape educational experiences.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 08 January 2027

      • The Olympic Games: Media, representation and cultural politics

        This Collection invites interdisciplinary scholarship that critically explores the dynamic interplay between the Olympic and Paralympic Games, media forms, representations, and the cultural politics that shape and are shaped by them.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 January 2027

        • Gender, democracy and political violence: A feminist perspective

          This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection brings together interdisciplinary research on feminism and democratic politics. We welcome contributions (theoretical, empirical, historical or comparative) from political science, sociology, gender studies, history, law, philosophy, anthropology, and related fields.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 December 2026

          • Translational humanities

            This Collection aims to explore the conditions of possibility for a translational humanities. It asks how humanities-based knowledge can be made applicable, actionable, and socially engaged.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 December 2026

            • Education for marginalised or displaced populations

              This Collection invites critical, interdisciplinary contributions that examine the politics, practices, and possibilities of education for marginalised or displaced populations.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 December 2026

              • Arts integration in education

                This Collection examines arts integration in education and its social, cultural, political, cognitive, and affective dimensions. We invite research that explores how artistic processes intersect with curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and institutional structures in formal and informal learning environments.
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 26 November 2026

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