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Calls for papers

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.

  • Pharmaceutical intellectual property

    This Collection invites submissions addressing the multifaceted legal, economic, ethical, and policy dimensions of pharmaceutical intellectual property from diverse disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 November 2026
    • Beyond the classroom: alternative education across contexts

      This Collection examines alternative forms of education and their social, cultural, political, and psychological implications. We invite research that explores alternative educational practices, including community-led learning, informal and non-formal education, experimental pedagogies, digital learning spaces, and decolonial or indigenous knowledge systems.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 November 2026
      • Museums and archives as educational institutions

        This Collection invites interdisciplinary scholarship that examines museums and archives as sites of formal and informal education, exploring their pedagogical strategies, social responsibilities, and transformative potential.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 November 2026
        • Nationalism and national identity in contemporary politics and society

          The aim of this Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection is to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism and national identity to critically examine their roles in contemporary politics, society, and culture.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 02 November 2026
          • Contemporary dialogues in global critical theory

            This Collection aims to explore social, political, and academic debates that have emerged specifically in the 21st Century and are crucial for the development of our global societies.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 October 2026
            • Grievances and victimhood in social and political engagement

              This Collection explores how grievance and victimhood shape political and social engagement, particularly the social and behavioural psychological dimensions of grievance formation, mobilisation, and political expression.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 October 2026
              • Food politics in the Global South

                This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection seeks critical, interdisciplinary reflections on the politics of food in the Global South. We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions from political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, history, development studies, environmental studies, and related fields.
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 October 2026

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