Current Round
Submissions are now closed. Please stay tuned for future submission opportunities.
Types of Submissions
The Journal accepts two types of submissions: Essays and Research Papers.
Essays
Essays are divided into two sub-categories: coursework and original pieces.
All essays will have a word count of 2,000-3,500 words.
Coursework will be any piece of work created by an author that answers a question which is relevant to the topic published by the Journal.
Coursework must have a given grade or predicted grade of 60 or above on the UK grading scale. Please email to inquire if you think your piece does not meet this requirement, if you are unsure of what your grade is in the UK system, or if you have a different grading scale.
Coursework must not have been submitted to any other university-affiliated journal or otherwise.
Original pieces will have the same word limit but do not have any grade requirement as they need not be pieces created in the course of an academic degree.
Original pieces can answer any original question.
Research Papers
Research papers will have a word count of 4,000-7,000 words.
Official dissertations completed in the course of an academic degree will be accepted with 8,000-10,000 words. If your dissertation at your institution of current or previous study exceeds this limit, please email to inform us.
Research papers may be official dissertations or any independent projects completed by the author.
Who Can Submit
The Journal is to any and all students of any institutions worldwide. The Journal strives to represent an international, multidisciplinary cohort of authors from institutions in the Global South and North. Anyone who is a student of an institution and who develops research on a topic within the wider subject of social justice could be considered for publication. This includes multiple disciplines as well as multiple worldviews on the topic.
Please use a university-affiliated email address to submit and indicate your university and graduation year on the submission.
Style Guide
Submit in Word or PDF file format.
Text is 1.5 spaced in a 12 point Sans font.
Include an abstract of maximum 300 words, with key words below.
Any figures and tables embedded in the text.
All citations and bibliography formatted in APA style.
Screening
All submissions will be read by our Junior Editors. All submissions will be screened for relevancy and appropriateness of scope, which will decide whether the submission will proceed to the next stage.
Authors are required to consult our instructions above if their submission piece is relevant and topical to the Journal’s social justice theme.
Editing
Once a submission has been approved by our Junior Editors, the piece will move to our Senior Editors to be checked for grammar and wording. Our Senior Editors do not edit for you, you must finalise the edits yourself. Senior Editors will edit a piece for grammatical clarity and then contact the author to have the piece edited by the author.
Peer Review
Once the piece has been returned to the Senior Editor, the Senior Editor will send off the submission to our Peer Reviewers to be double-blind peer-reviewed. This means that the submission will go through two separate peer reviewers who do not know the identity of the author. Peer Reviewers will officially review the piece for its contribution to the academic field, the topic, the Journal, as well as the originality and style of the piece. Peer Reviewers will submit their edits to the Co-Editors, who will contact authors to complete the suggestions made by the Peer Reviewers.
Publication
When the author finalises the submission and all comments from Peer Reviewers have been addressed, the piece will be collected for publication. All edits must be carried out by the author. Co-Editors and the Head Editor will review the piece to ensure it has been properly edited before adding to the publication. Authors will be contacted if there needs to be further edits or if the piece has been finalised and added to the publication. All authors will also be contacted for permissions if they would allow for their piece to be featured on the website.
Please note once you have published a piece in the Journal, whether original work or previous work for your study, you can no longer submit that piece of academic work to any other journals.