We are seeking submissions of original research for a special edition to celebrate the European Association of Mental Health in Intellectual Disability (EAMHID) congress “TOWARDS 100% SOCIAL EQUITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE AΙ AGE” which will take place from 23th to 25th of September 2027 in Thessaloniki, Greece. We welcome submissions in areas related to this theme, including but not exclusive to mental health, child and family care, social policy, coproduction, education advances and public health.

List of Topic Areas

• Research that explores the nature or determinants of inequities between people (including children and young people) with intellectual disabilities and their peers or between different groups of people with intellectual disabilities;
• Research that highlights key practical and methodological issues involving research with people with intellectual disabilities;
• Advances in mental health knowledge and treatment;
• Research that models the potential impact of interventions to reduce inequities or address unmet support or service needs;
• Submissions from underrepresented countries in Europe and across the world;
• Submissions that involve analysis of data sets that are representative of national or regional populations represented at the conference;
• Submissions investigating the use of technology to promote mental well-being and independence for people with intellectual disability.

Guest Editors

Prof Dr Paula Sterkenburg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, p.s.sterkenburg@vu.nl

Dr Sonya Rudra, University College London, UK, s.rudra@ucl.ac.uk

Dr Sien Vandesande, KU Leuven, Belgium, sien.vandesande@kuleuven.be

Submissions Information

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Author Guidelines

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”. Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q4, H-Index 22

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 1st August 2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31st December 2026

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The transition toward circular, low-carbon geoenvironmental engineering demands transformative approaches to managing and reusing alkaline IBPs that are traditionally landfilled or stockpiled. Large volumes of alkaline wastes, such as fly ash, cement kiln dust, steel slag, incineration residues, and carbide lime waste, are generated worldwide as a result of energy production, construction, and industrial processing. While these materials often possess favourable mineralogical characteristics, their direct reuse in geotechnical and geoenvironmental applications is frequently constrained by contaminant leaching, hydro-chemical instability, insufficient durability, and uncertain long-term performance.

Recent advances in biopolymer science and bio-based treatment technologies offer promising opportunities to address these challenges. Biopolymers can act as binders, modifiers, or functional agents that improve the mechanical behaviour, environmental stability, and service-life performance of alkaline IBPs, while maintaining low carbon intensity and environmental compatibility. Importantly, biopolymer treatment enables not only stabilisation, but biological upgrading and functional transformation of waste-derived materials into value-added geo-materials.

Despite growing interest, significant knowledge gaps remain regarding treatment mechanisms in alkaline systems, durability under environmental loading, contaminant immobilisation, field-scale performance, and acceptance criteria for engineering reuse. This themed issue provides a dedicated platform to advance science-based, application-oriented solutions for the sustainable reuse of biopolymer-treated alkaline IBPs, supporting the shift from waste management to resource recovery in transportation infrastructure, embankments, environmental barrier systems, sustainable construction products, and circular-economy driven geoenvironmental engineering applications.

List of Topic Areas

We invite original research articles, reviews, case studies, and practice-oriented contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Biopolymer Preparation and Characterisation: Development of preparation methods, material characterisation, and standardised testing protocols for biopolymers intended for alkaline geoenvironmental systems.
• Biopolymer Treatment and Upgrading of Alkaline IBPs: Biopolymer-based treatment strategies for alkaline IBPs (e.g. fly ash, steel slag, cement kiln dust, incineration residues, contaminated soils), focusing on mechanical enhancement, environmental stability, and reuse potential.
• Environmental Performance and Contaminant Control: Mechanisms of contaminant immobilisation, leaching behaviour, hydro-chemical stability, and regulatory compliance of biopolymer-treated alkaline IBPs.
• Durability and Long-Term Performance: Ageing, degradation, and performance evolution under wetting–drying, freeze–thaw, chemical exposure, thermal variation, and coupled environmental loading.
• Field Applications and Pilot-Scale Demonstrations: Field trials, pilot studies, and full-scale reuse of biopolymer-treated alkaline IBPs in embankments, subgrades, ground improvement, landfill engineering, and related applications.
• Sustainability Assessment and Circular-Economy Evaluation: Life-cycle assessment (LCA), carbon accounting, techno-economic analysis (TEA), and circularity metrics for evaluating environmental and economic performance.
• Regulatory, Risk, and Standardisation Frameworks: Design guidance, risk-based assessment methods, regulatory acceptance, and standardisation pathways for safe and reliable reuse of waste-derived bio-treated geo-materials.

Submission Information

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q2, H-Index 33

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The rapid digitalization of work—driven by advances in information and communication technologies, remote and hybrid work arrangements, and GenAI-enabled systems—has fundamentally reshaped the boundaries between work and family domains. While digital tools provide unprecedented flexibility and autonomy, they also blur temporal and spatial boundaries, intensify role demands, and generate new forms of work–family conflict (Allen et al., 2015; Derks et al., 2014; Mordi et al., 2024; Wang et al., 2021). This transformation is especially salient in knowledge-intensive and digitally-mediated work contexts, where the “always-on” culture may foster constant connectivity, hinder psychological detachment, and undermine employee well-being and family functioning (Sonnentag & Fritz, 2015).

Furthermore, the recent wave of return-to-office mandates by major organizations and governments worldwide has reignited debates about the contested value of flexible work (Knowles, 2025; McPhail et al., 2024), underscoring the need for rigorous research on how policy reversals affect employees’ boundary management strategies and family well-being. At the same time, the mainstreaming of GenAI in everyday work introduces qualitatively new challenges—including cognitive offloading, accelerated work pace, and algorithmic task allocation—that may reshape work–family boundaries in ways not yet captured by existing theoretical frameworks (Chuang et al., 2025; Wu et al., 2024; Xiao et al., 2025). We also encourage research adopting dyadic and family-systems perspectives that examine how digital work demands cross over between partners and spill over to other family members, particularly in dual-earner and dual-career households (Brumley et al., 2024).

List of Topic Areas

Challenges in the Digital Work–Family Interface

• Blurring of work–family boundaries in remote and hybrid work environments
• Emerging challenges in time–spatially flexible work
• GenAI use and digital overload, and their spillover effects on family life
• “Always-on” work cultures and impacts on recovery and well-being
• Algorithmic management and implications for job autonomy and control
• Digital surveillance and privacy concerns in home-based work
• Gender inequality in digitally mediated work arrangements

Strategies for Managing Work–Family Dynamics

• Individual boundary management strategies in digital contexts
• GenAI literacy and self-regulation in managing role demands
• Leadership behaviors that facilitate work–family integration
• HR practices mitigating digital work–family conflict
• Designing technology to support boundary control and well-being
• Time–spatial crafting as a boundary management strategy
• Work (re)design and home (re)design strategies to re-vitalize work and family life

Work–Family Enrichment and Opportunities

• Positive spillover via flexible digital work arrangements
• Digitally-mediated tools supporting family engagement
• Hybrid work models and work–family enrichment
• Reconceptualizing integration in the digital era
• Micro-transitions between work and family roles across time and space

Contextual and Cross-Level Perspectives

• Cross-cultural differences in digital work–family norms
• Individual differences in digital work–family strategies
• Institutional and policy influences
• Multi-level (individual–team–organization) dynamics
• Longitudinal changes and causal effects in work–family relationships
• Within-person variability in boundary management across days and situations

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Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q1, H-Index 104

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 20/05/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 30/11/2026

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The fast development of artificial intelligence (AI), e.g. foundation models has enabled a paradigm shift of many application fields, including cognitive computing, cognitive agents and human-machine interaction. However, traditional AI approaches sometimes struggle with the complexities of human-like learning, adaptation, and generalization. Even the foundation models face some significant limitations: they cannot achieve continual, stable knowledge acquisition and accumulation like the human brain due to catastrophic forgetting when encountering new knowledge. Continual Learning have potentials to enhance AI systems by enabling them to learn from new data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Continual learning is becoming increasingly important in various fields including medical diagnosis, embodied intelligence, and industrial equipment maintenance. These real-world applications demand AI systems that can continuously update their knowledge while maintaining performance on previous tasks.

On the other hand, the human brain possesses remarkable lifelong learning capabilities due to its unique memorial mechanisms, that enable the brain to continually absorb new information while preserving existing knowledge, achieving cumulative knowledge growth. Furthermore, the brain’s hierarchical memory system and memory consolidation processes provide crucial insights for addressing catastrophic forgetting. Therefore, Brain-Like Cognition offers a promising framework for emulating human cognitive processes, which can be particularly valuable in HMS, which can give new insights for foundation models, fusion models, federated learning, and other models to achieve effective continual learning.

This special issue aims to explore novel brain like cognition approaches for continual learning, including theoretical analysis, transforming neuroscientific findings into continual learning computational models, how to leverage foundation model technologies to overcome traditional continual learning limitations, and how to evaluate and validate the effectiveness of these novel approaches.

Key topics

· Brain-like cognition-driven approaches to continual learning.
· Brain memory mechanisms for enhancing continual learning in foundation models.
· Brain-inspired multimodal foundation model fine-tuning, reasoning.
· Personalized solutions for cross-task and cross-distribution continual learning.
· Transparency and interpretability in continual learning models.
· Brain-inspired trustworthy distributed federated learning.
· Brain-inspired collaborative paradigms between foundation models and classical small models. · Brain-inspired generative artificial intelligence.
· Applications of continual learning in real-world domains, including healthcare, robotics, autonomous driving, smart education, etc.
· Brain-like continual learning in embodied intelligence systems, including robotics, sensorimotor control, and interactive environments.

Submission Information

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Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijwis#jlp_author_guidelines

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q2, H-index 27

Key Dates

Closing date for submissions: 31 August 2026

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This special issue, Beyond Productivity: The Performance–Wellbeing Paradox in AI-Enabled Work, invites contributions that critically examine how AI reconfigures the relationship between performance and wellbeing across organisational contexts to create social impact. AI-enabled work refers to the integration of AI-related technologies to the organisational infrastructure and as part of the position description concerning employee’s job responsibilities, while simultaneously keeping the human-in-the-loop to minimise risk and errors (Rabhi, Beheshti and Gill 2025; Rani and Dhir 2024).

Social impact in business research is the “ creation of value for people through business scholarly activities resulting in intentional improvement in micro, meso or macro economic, human and environmental phenomena over time with the market and organisations leading, partnering, supporting or yielding (to) change” (Russell-Bennett and Reid 2026 p.5). In the context of AI-enabled systems in the workplace, examples of social impact phenomena include job security, minimisation of psychosocial strain, productivity, empowerment, fairness, and employee autonomy, as well as broader outcomes such as inclusion and inequality (Bankins et al., 2024; Budhwar et al., 2023; Giermindl et al., 2021; Mettler, 2023; Robert et al., 2020). These phenomena reflect how AI-enabled organisational practices can simultaneously enhance performance and augment human capabilities, while also introducing risks related to surveillance, work intensification, and the erosion of trust and wellbeing, thereby positioning workplace wellbeing as a critical dimension of social impact in contemporary organisations (Sarala et al., 2025; Nanjundeswaraswamy et al., 2026; Wood, 2021).

Recent research suggests that AI-driven management practices, such as people analytics and algorithmic decision-making, can enhance productivity while simultaneously undermining autonomy, fairness, and trust (Giermindl et al., 2021; Robert et al., 2020). These dynamics reveal a paradox where systems designed to optimise performance may inadvertently erode the human conditions necessary for sustainable work.

At the same time, the rapid diffusion of AI across industries has intensified debates regarding the future of work, inequality, and organisational responsibility (Sarala et al., 2025). Organisations are increasingly implementing AI without fully understanding the social impact of such implementation such as employee wellbeing, inclusion, and long-term social impact (Nanjundeswaraswamy et al., 2026). This creates an urgent need for interdisciplinary and practice-oriented research that moves beyond instrumental views of technology toward a more nuanced understanding of human–AI entanglements.

We welcome submissions that explore how AI reshapes organisational systems and creates social impact for employees in areas such as performance management, learning and development, reward structures, and workforce planning. Contributions may adopt critical, empirical, or conceptual approaches to investigate issues including autonomy, identity, job quality, inclusion, and organisational ethics.

By advancing the concept of a performance–wellbeing paradox, this special issue aims to generate actionable insights for building more human-centred, equitable, and sustainable AI-enabled workplaces and creating social impact for employees.

List of topic areas

• The performance-wellbeing paradox in AI-enabled workplaces: Tensions between optimisation, control, productivity, and human agility and organisational resilience.
• Data-driven performance management and people analytics: Impacts on autonomy, fairness, psychological and psychosocial safety, and trust.
• Organisational design, workforce planning, and job insecurity: AI-driven restructuring, precarity, and the lived experience of future-of-work anxiety.
• Cross-cultural implications on tech-based wellbeing management: Influential sector specifications and differences due to workplace cultures, opportunities and risks for diversity and inclusion regarding neurodiversity, multi-generation, and gender.
• Wellbeing as social impact in digital transformation: Implications for inequality, ethics, governance, and sustainable business practices.

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsibr

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jsibr

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to ““Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/07/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 28/09/2026

Email for submissions: robin.ladwig@canberra.edu.au

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People with intellectual disabilities face striking health inequities, including a markedly reduced life expectancy, elevated rates of mental health problems, and persistent barriers to appropriate diagnosis and treatment across healthcare systems. The emotional development (ED) approach offers a transformative framework by conceptualizing emotional development as a distinct, measurable dimension of human functioning, complementary to cognitive abilities and adaptive behaviour. By systematically assessing emotional development, clinicians and researchers gain a more precise understanding of how individuals perceive, regulate, and communicate emotions, providing a powerful lens for tailoring support and care.

This Special Issue, “The emotional development approach: Understanding and supporting people with intellectual disabilities”, invites contributions that show how ED-informed assessment and intervention can fundamentally improve clinical decision-making, service design, and everyday support. A core focus is on resolving diagnostic overshadowing, enhancing differential diagnosis between intellectual disability and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, and enabling earlier, developmentally sensitive interventions. We particularly welcome work demonstrating how ED frameworks contribute to reducing inappropriate psychotropic medication use and promoting non-pharmacological, developmentally attuned interventions that enhance quality of life.

The Special Issue also aims to advance the standardization and cross-national validation of emotional development instruments across languages, cultures, age groups, and levels of disability. Implementation studies examining how the ED approach can be integrated into routine practice in diverse European healthcare systems—including community services, specialist intellectual disability mental health services, and general hospital and primary care settings—are highly encouraged. We further invite research that links challenging behaviour to emotional developmental “reference ages”, thereby clarifying which behaviours are developmentally expectable and which reflect underlying psychopathology or unmet needs.

Recognising the importance of inclusive and rights-based research, the Special Issue explicitly encourages co-produced contributions involving people with intellectual disabilities, families, and caregivers as co-authors or co-researchers. We welcome international and cross-sectoral collaborations, technology-enabled innovations (e.g. digital assessment tools, decision support systems), and policy- and practice-oriented papers that translate ED evidence into concrete recommendations for training, service organization, and health policy.

Through this Special Issue, we aim to consolidate and extend the evidence base for the emotional development approach, support its integration into clinical guidelines and educational curricula, and strengthen its role in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In doing so, the Special Issue contributes directly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals on good health and well-being, quality education, reduced inequalities, and strong, inclusive institutions. The Guest Editorial team will actively disseminate published articles via the networks NEED, EAMHID, DGSGB, and SEN-SEO to maximise impact across research, practice, policy, and community sectors.

List of Topic Areas

• Theoretical and neuroscientific foundations of emotional development in intellectual disabilities, including trajectories of emotional competencies.
• Diagnostic overshadowing and differential diagnosis, showing how ED assessment clarifies co-occurring psychiatric disorders and supports earlier intervention.
• Standardization and psychometric validation of emotional development instruments across languages, cultures, age groups, and levels of intellectual disability.
• Personalized, developmentally appropriate interventions informed by ED assessment, including psychotherapy, psychosocial, and environmental approaches.
• Emotional development and psychotropic medication reduction, including de-prescribing strategies and outcomes on quality of life and mental health.
• Challenging behaviours as developmental communication, including links to emotional developmental “reference ages” and implications for assessment and support.
• Implementation science and service innovation for integrating ED frameworks into routine clinical practice in diverse healthcare systems.
• Cross-cultural and cross-national adaptation of ED concepts, measures, and interventions in different European and international contexts.
• Co-production and inclusive research methodologies involving people with intellectual disabilities, families, and caregivers as active partners.
• Policy, rights, and health equity implications of the ED approach, including alignment with ICD 11, UN CRPD, and deinstitutionalisation strategies.

Submission Information

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Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q4, H-Index  22

Key Dates

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026
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Research training is full of unwritten rules – about how to think, write, collaborate, and even how to “be” a researcher. While research on neurodiversity in higher education is growing, higher degree education has often been left out of the conversation. When the topic does appear, it is often framed as a challenge to be “overcome” rather than as a sign of innovation and strength. With increasing numbers of neurodivergent candidates alongside growing policy commitments to equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education, this special issue provides a timely response to that gap by asking: what happens when we look at graduate research education through a neurodiversity lens?

The aim of this collection is to bring together research that foregrounds the strengths, innovations, and knowledge-making practices neurodivergent scholars bring to research communities. Contributions can include lived experiences of neurodivergent graduate researchers, supervisors, and examiners, alongside inclusive supervision, mentoring, and peer support, as well as the structural, cultural, and disciplinary conditions that shape participation. Several papers engage directly with policy and governance, epistemic justice, and disclosure practices, highlighting how institutional frameworks can enable or constrain belonging and success in graduate research programs.

As technology is transforming how research is done, it creates new opportunities for participation. Therefore, other contributions can also include an exploration of under-examined areas such as the role of AI and assistive technologies, and the possibilities of re-imagined doctoral models that allow for greater flexibility in pacing, communication, and collaboration. These papers attend to both the opportunities and the risks of technological change, emphasising the importance of aligning tools with inclusive pedagogical and ethical principles.

A key feature of this special issue is its attention to emotional as well as structural dimensions of graduate research work. Doctoral education is not only a technical training process but also an intensely relational and affective experience, shaped by power, identity, expectations, and uncertainty. By connecting lived experience with policy analysis and disciplinary cultures, the contributions illuminate how everyday practices of supervision, assessment, and professional socialisation can reproduce exclusion, but also how they can be redesigned to foster participation and wellbeing.

Importantly, this collection actively encourages and centres neurodivergent authors, reflecting a commitment to participatory and inclusive research practices. By doing so, it models the kind of research culture it seeks to promote – one that understands inclusion as a driver of innovation, not an afterthought. The societal relevance of this work extends beyond academia, contributing to broader discussions about workplace inclusion and the value of diverse ways of thinking in knowledge-based professions. Together, the papers in this special issue document the current state of play while pointing toward more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable futures for graduate research training. By rethinking graduate education through a neurodiversity lens, this collection invites institutions, supervisors, and researchers to reconsider what doctoral education can be – and who it is for.

List of Topic Areas

1. Lived experiences of neurodivergent graduate researchers, supervisors, and examiners.
2. Structural, cultural, and disciplinary conditions shaping participation.
3. Inclusive supervision, mentoring, and peer/community support.
4. Policy, governance, epistemic justice, and disclosure practices.
5. Tools, technologies, and reimagined models for neurodivergent-friendly graduate education.

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sgpe
Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see here: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/sgpe
Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to ““Please select the issue you are submitting to”.
Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q2, H-Index 21

Key Deadlines

Closing date for abstract submission: 30/04/2026 
Email for abstract submissions: Charlotte.Brownlow@unisq.edu.au

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/03/2026 Closing date for manuscripts submission: 30/09/2026

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming contemporary workplaces, reshaping how work is organised, managed, and experienced. While these developments promise enhanced efficiency and productivity, they also surface critical tensions between organisational performance imperatives and employee wellbeing (Chandhary et al., 2023). Emerging scholarship highlights both the opportunities and the risks associated with AI-enabled systems, including increased augmentation and innovation alongside intensified surveillance, job insecurity, and psychosocial strain (Bankins et al., 2024; Mettler, 2023).

This special issue, Beyond Productivity: The Performance–Wellbeing Paradox in AI-Enabled Work, invites contributions that critically examine how AI reconfigures the relationship between performance and wellbeing across organisational contexts to create social impact. AI-enabled work refers to the integration of AI-related technologies to the organisational infrastructure and as part of the position description concerning employee’s job responsibilities, while simultaneously keeping the human-in-the-loop to minimise risk and errors (Rabhi, Beheshti and Gill 2025; Rani and Dhir 2024).

Social impact in business research is the “ creation of value for people through business scholarly activities resulting in intentional improvement in micro, meso or macro economic, human and environmental phenomena over time with the market and organisations leading, partnering, supporting or yielding (to) change” (Russell-Bennett and Reid 2026 p.5). In the context of AI-enabled systems in the workplace, examples of social impact phenomena include job security, minimisation of psychosocial strain, productivity, empowerment, fairness, and employee autonomy, as well as broader outcomes such as inclusion and inequality (Bankins et al., 2024; Budhwar et al., 2023; Giermindl et al., 2021; Mettler, 2023; Robert et al., 2020). These phenomena reflect how AI-enabled organisational practices can simultaneously enhance performance and augment human capabilities, while also introducing risks related to surveillance, work intensification, and the erosion of trust and wellbeing, thereby positioning workplace wellbeing as a critical dimension of social impact in contemporary organisations (Sarala et al., 2025; Nanjundeswaraswamy et al., 2026; Wood, 2021).

Recent research suggests that AI-driven management practices, such as people analytics and algorithmic decision-making, can enhance productivity while simultaneously undermining autonomy, fairness, and trust (Giermindl et al., 2021; Robert et al., 2020). These dynamics reveal a paradox where systems designed to optimise performance may inadvertently erode the human conditions necessary for sustainable work.

At the same time, the rapid diffusion of AI across industries has intensified debates regarding the future of work, inequality, and organisational responsibility (Sarala et al., 2025). Organisations are increasingly implementing AI without fully understanding the social impact of such implementation such as employee wellbeing, inclusion, and long-term social impact (Nanjundeswaraswamy et al., 2026). This creates an urgent need for interdisciplinary and practice-oriented research that moves beyond instrumental views of technology toward a more nuanced understanding of human–AI entanglements.

We welcome submissions that explore how AI reshapes organisational systems and creates social impact for employees in areas such as performance management, learning and development, reward structures, and workforce planning. Contributions may adopt critical, empirical, or conceptual approaches to investigate issues including autonomy, identity, job quality, inclusion, and organisational ethics.

By advancing the concept of a performance–wellbeing paradox, this special issue aims to generate actionable insights for building more human-centred, equitable, and sustainable AI-enabled workplaces and creating social impact for employees.

List of topic areas

• The performance-wellbeing paradox in AI-enabled workplaces: Tensions between optimisation, control, productivity, and human agility and organisational resilience.
• Data-driven performance management and people analytics: Impacts on autonomy, fairness, psychological and psychosocial safety, and trust.
• Organisational design, workforce planning, and job insecurity: AI-driven restructuring, precarity, and the lived experience of future-of-work anxiety.
• Cross-cultural implications on tech-based wellbeing management: Influential sector specifications and differences due to workplace cultures, opportunities and risks for diversity and inclusion regarding neurodiversity, multi-generation, and gender.
• Wellbeing as social impact in digital transformation: Implications for inequality, ethics, governance, and sustainable business practices.

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsibr

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jsibr

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to ““Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/07/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 28/09/2026

Email for submissions: robin.ladwig@canberra.edu.au

For more details refer here

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