eSharp
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
We are now accepting submissions for the fourteenth issue of eSharp, to be launched in winter 2009, which takes as its title 'Imagination and Innovation'. It will explore the potential of the human imagination in generating innovation, creation and new developments. From technological advances to the formation of various media, the inventive capacity of the human mind has shaped our history and our world in countless ways.
As a creative force, imagination produces developments in a broad variety of contexts, which range from human systems and societies to the landscapes which we inhabit. Enquiries into the nature of 'imagination' itself by philosophers, theologians and psychologists from various periods have enhanced our understanding of this entity. Reforms in the fields of Education, Medicine and Politics rely on 'thinking outside the box', while rapid growth in media and intellectual property requires new legislation and legal expertise.
This issue invites contributions which explore creative responses to the challenges encountered by humanity throughout its collective existence, with reference to progressive movements in technology, policy, education and art.
Subjects may include, but are not limited to:
- the fantastic or imaginative in art and literature
- literary and/or pictorial representations of the human imagination
- the history and development of concepts concerning the imagination
- innovation and education
- legal responses to media and communications development
- technological innovation and emerging industries
- the social implications of new media
- election campaigns and their appeal to the voters' imagination
- imagination and mainstream entertainment
- creativity and the use of the imagination by children
- marketing, advertising and the use of imagination in business
- creative industries and product innovation
- environments and the imagination; redefining inhabited space
Submissions 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. The final deadline for submission of articles is Tuesday 1st September 2009.
Current Issue
eSharp's thirteenth issue, 'Atlantic Exchanges', explores the growing field of Atlantic Studies. The high quality and variety of submissions reflects growing interest in studies of the Atlantic as a region of transnational exchanges that continue to invigorate and challenge the cultures and societies of the countries that surround the ocean. The issue contains articles on subjects from Ishmael Reed and Neo-HooDoo to the 21st century Scottish diaspora to the 18th century British General Thomas Gage.eSharp is proud to present this series of articles demonstrating the broad range of intellectual engagement that the theme of 'Atlantic Exchanges' provokes across disciplines.