The Essex Graduate Journal
Founder: John Scott
Editor:
Michael Halewood
The Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology was established by Professor John
Scott as an outlet for the work of Essex-based postgraduate students, allowing
them to present their ideas for wider discussion among other graduates,
researchers and academics. Articles present provisional ideas and research
results, suggestions for further research and plans of work. All contributions
are refereed prior to acceptance.
The articles here are all authored by current or recent
PhD and Masters students from the Department of Sociology at the University
of Essex and represent a small sample of graduate work in the Department. Most
have been presented at our annual doctoral conference. There have been around 40
PhDs awarded in the last 3 years to students in the Department and there over
100
PhD students registered at any one time. Lists of titles of recently
completed theses are held by the
University Library and copies of any of these can be ordered through
inter-library loans.
Call for Submission 2012
This year we have decided to suggest that a group of students submit a
proposal to "guest edit" this year’s edition of the journal around a specific
theme. This will involve selecting a theme which all the articles should address
such as "poverty", or "subjectivity", or "migration". These are only suggestions
and we would be happy for you to suggest any sociological theme. Once the theme
is decided upon, it will be up to the guest editors to source, review and edit
the pieces which are submitted for this edition. The first step would be for a
group of students to agree upon a theme and some possible contributors and to
submit a short proposal for consideration.
Please note that we will also be accepting 'single' pieces, as usual, which
are not related to any theme. However, the number of these may be limited.
Articles that Essex graduate students wish to have considered for publication
in the journal should follow the general style guidelines and submission
instructions set out in the 2012 guidelines
document.
Timetable for 2012 submissions:
- Please submit a proposal to guest edit this edition by March 31st 2012
- Please submit any free-standing articles by April 23rd 2012
- We hope to have comments back to authors by May 14th 2012
- Think pieces may be submitted anytime before May 14th 2012 as they do not
need to be reviewed
We can only publish 1 item per person per year.
What to write
We publish full articles (5000 words) based on PhD research and exceptional
MA essays (mark of 70+ and good comments). These articles are reviewed within
the department and will be returned for revisions, as is standard practice in
academic journals. The articles are usually reviewed by a member of academic
staff and by a graduate student. It is usually a good idea to talk to your
supervisor or class teacher about what you might want to write, and you can also
get in touch with the editors.
We also publish short ‘think pieces’ of up to 1500 words. These might be
reports on fieldwork or conferences which you have attended, sociological
reflections on current affairs, provocative arguments as to why something needs
studying and such like. If you have an idea for something that might fit into
this category, then please let the editors know and we can discuss it.
Editorial Notes
The editors reserve the right to make minor stylistic and editorial changes
to articles prior to publication. Final copies of accepted articles should be
supplied in Word format or as a straight text file. Please try to avoid large
numbers of endnotes, please note that some images are hard for us to print and
also that we do not print in colour.
All
material is copyright the authors and is published under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
This means that authors are free to reprint their article, use it as the basis
for other publications or submit it to an institutional or other repository.
Further copies of this journal may be obtained from the editorial address at
a cost of £5 including posting and packing. Cheques should be made payable to
‘University of Essex’.
Address for all correspondence
The Editor
Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
Other Student Journals at Essex University
-
IDEATE - our undergraduate journal
- The Department of Sociology is renowned for its research excellence; we were
ranked joint 1st nationally in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, with
90% of our research judged to be of international standard. We take our student
research no less seriously than that of academic staff and IDEATE showcases and
celebrates the very best of our undergraduate work, including essays, projects,
presentations and non-assessed, more exploratory pieces.
- Estro - Essex student
research online
- Estro is an online multi-disciplinary academic journal, run by and for
University of Essex students. The journal is dedicated to the publication of
high quality undergraduate and postgraduate writing, creating accessible and
engaging content for a non-specialist student readership. Estro encourages and
celebrates student research by providing students with valuable early experience
of academic publishing and the peer review process.
Last modified on 13 March 2012