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eSharp is an international online journal for postgraduate research in the arts, humanities, social sciences and education. Based at the University of Glasgow and run entirely by graduate students, it aims to provide a critical but supportive entry into the realm of academic publishing for emerging academics, including postgraduates and recent postdoctoral students.

One of our aims is to encourage the publication of high quality postgraduate research; therefore all submitted articles are anonymously double-blind peer reviewed as part of the acceptance and feedback process. This rigorous and constructive process is designed to enhance the worth of postgraduate and postdoctoral work. eSharp also engages in training postgraduate students in the various tasks that running an academic journal requires. Enhancing both employability and the graduate experience is a key aspect of its aims and objectives.


Call for Papers

eSharp, an established peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality research by postgraduate students invites papers for the forthcoming themed issue. For issue 18, Challenges of Development, we invite articles which engage with challenges of development, real and perceived, contemporary and historical, from within the spheres of the social sciences, education, and the arts and humanities. We encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research and early career authors within one year of graduation.

Long embraced roads of development, both economic and political, have been closed by recent events in the Middle East and in the financial markets. As nations, groups, and individuals struggle to overcome new barriers to development the subjective nature of progress is highlighted. Athens burns with the fires of resistance to economic modernisation and supranational governance whilst the people of Egypt exchange stability for potential prosperity. Academia must embrace and explore this dichotomy in order to engage with diverse and often contradictory understandings of development. Conducting an analysis of the origins, challenges, and consequences of development, both within and across disciplines, will help construct a more complete picture, contextualise topical concerns, and indicate fruitful lines of further enquiry.

Subjects may include, but are not limited to:

  • Faith and the development of social capital
  • Re-imagining and developing gender identities
  • Austerity & development
  • Challenges of representation within education
  • Development of diasporic communities
  • Challenges to the development of the imagination
  • Challenges to the development of privacy law
  • Development of dialectics
  • Theories of resistance
  • Supranationalism
  • Development of global financial regulation
  • Development of journalistic norms in new media
  • Democratic development and new media
  • The ECJ and European integration
  • Musical development
  • Post industrial development in newly industrialised countries
  • Development of literary theory

Submissions to eSharp must be based on original research and should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. These should be made in Word document or RTF format. Please ensure that you accompany your article with an abstract of 200 to 250 words and a list of three to five keywords to indicate the subject area of your article. A full list of guidelines and our style sheet is available here. Submissions and enquiries should be sent to submissions@esharp.org.uk. DEADLINE EXTENDED: The final deadline for submission of articles is Monday 30th of January 2012.


Current Issue

eSharp's seventeenth issue engages with the timely theme of Crisis, aiming to explore the meanings and significance of this salient concept within contemporary research in the Arts and Social Sciences.

The crisis is multifaceted, transient, disruptive, painful, and perplexing. The crisis invites us to consider difficult moments. Moments of transformation, moments of loss, moments of upheaval; moments which are often hard to comprehend yet which necessitate analysis even in their articulation. The research presented here engages with these moments, offering reflections and perspectives on the ways in which culture and societies can negotiate and understand crisis.

Within this issue is a body of outstanding work that approaches crisis from a variety of disciplinary practices, ranging from historicised literary studies to comparative media research, and from sociological participant observation to political-economic analysis. Read this issue here.