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Scopus journal call for paper: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities (Mental Health, Mental Well-being and Intellectual Disability Research)

anshikapradhan13 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:28:46 +0000

Mental Health, Mental Well-being and Intellectual Disability Research

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

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Author guidelines must be strictly followed.

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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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Scopus Journal Call for paper: Environmental Geotechnics

anshikapradhan13 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:11:43 +0000

Biopolymer Treatment of Alkaline Industrial By-products (IBPs) for Valorisation and Sustainable Reuse in Geoenvironmental Engineering

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

Submit your abstract here

Author guidelines must be followed

Submissions are made using River Valley. Registration and access are available at: https://ice-review.rivervalley.io/journal/jenge

Once you have registered, navigate to the journal that you wish to submit to. Choose article type “Special Issue” and then the specific name from the drop-down menu on screen.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q2, H-Index 33

Key Deadlines

Abstract deadline: 15th October 2026
Full submission deadline: 28th February 2027

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Scopus Journal Call for paper: European Journal of Marketing (Creating, Measuring, and Managing Impact in Complex Service Systems)

anshikapradhan13 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:36:38 +0000

A complex service system is an interdependent multi-actor system of service providers and users that jointly produce and deliver services, with outcomes emerging dynamically through interactions across contexts. Complex service systems such as healthcare, financial services, public administration, education, and social care significantly shape the wellbeing of individuals and societies by determining how essential services are delivered, which in turn directly affects people’s daily lives and long-term outcomes. Innovation in these settings is often practice-driven rather than theory-driven. Professionals embedded within service delivery contexts are positioned at the interface of users and operational realities, where they continuously encounter emerging needs, service breakdowns, and contextual constraints. This enables them to generate need-based, practice-led innovations that directly reshape service processes and outcomes. Many studies offer theoretical advancements in identifying the factors and processes that may influence service performance within the system, yet they provide limited evidence of how research-based insights translate into tangible change in practice. Evidence of research impact in complex service sectors remains limited.

Research impact is often referenced but operationalised inconsistently in complex service contexts. It may involve observable changes in user behaviour, improvements in service delivery processes, adoption of new technologies, enhancements in organisational practices, or influence on policy and system-level coordination. Impact outcomes often unfold over extended time horizons, and interventions may generate unintended consequences. Together with the interdependencies across actors within the complex service system, this makes demonstrating research impact particularly challenging. Furthermore, differing priorities among stakeholders, such as service providers, users, regulators, and partners, further complicate the evaluation of the impact outcomes.

Nevertheless, funding bodies, universities, communities/the public, and journals increasingly expect clear evidence that research delivers societal, economic, or policy value within complex service sector. This expectation is particularly salient in contexts such as healthcare, education, and public services, where multiple actors, technologies, and institutions interact. As a result, researchers are under growing pressure to demonstrate how their work produces tangible or intangible outcomes that justify the significant resources invested. In response to this growing pressure, this special issue aims to demonstrate and advance the understanding of how research may impact in complex service contexts. We encourage submissions that clearly specify how impact is defined, measured, and traced within complex service systems.

Providing credible evidence of research impact in the context of complex service systems is critical, we thus seek submissions provide robust empirical evidence of meaningful, valuable, and ethical change. Submissions may draw on multiple methods or approaches, including but not limited to qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, or experimental research. The research may span different timeframes. We particularly encourage work employing participatory or creative research methods. Collaborating with non-academic stakeholders (e.g., policymakers and industry practitioners) may enrich perspectives on what impact is, how it emerges, and how it can be evaluated.

List of Topic Areas

It is worth noting, impact is not inherently positive. The pursuit of measurable outcomes may create distortions, inequities, or ethical tensions. Who defines what counts as valuable impact? Whose interests are prioritised or marginalised? Impact is rarely instantaneous; it unfolds over time. Understanding how impact emerges, evolves, and diffuses can offer actionable insights for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and communities themselves. Evidence about what types of research approaches (e.g., interventions, co-design, field experiments, participatory methods, collaborative partnerships with industry players etc.) generate stronger impact, while lacking, is crucial to help scholars design studies that are both theoretically rigorous and practically influential. Key questions for this special issue include but not limited to:

What frameworks and metrics can be used to assess behavioural, cognitive, relational, or systemic change resulting from research, and how can they capture impacts across the diverse stakeholders involved in complex service systems?
How can research impact in complex services be understood and assessed beyond financial metrics, including intellectual, professional, social, and personal development outcomes across diverse stakeholder groups?
How do the interdependencies, governance structures, and stakeholder relationships characteristic of complex service systems enable or inhibit research impact?
What common patterns or trajectories of impact emerge across complex service systems, particularly in relation to how value and impact are distributed among multiple stakeholders over time?
What mechanisms pathways enable the progression from awareness to engagement and ultimately to sustained change in generating research impact, and how are these shaped by the complexity of service systems and stakeholder interactions?
What forms of longitudinal or field-based evidence are needed to capture dynamic changes in stakeholder mindsets, behaviours, and systemic outcomes in complex service systems characterised by interdependence and co-evolution?
What roles do co-creation, stakeholder collaboration, and service design play in enabling research impact across multiple stakeholders, and how do these processes operate within complex service systems?
How do intervention-based or design-based research approaches produce and sustain measurable behavioural, organisational, and system-level outcomes in complex service systems characterised by interdependent actors and dynamic change?
In what ways have research insights informed and reshaped policy, professional practice, service design, or stakeholder decision-making in complex service systems characterised by interdependent actors and competing stakeholder priorities?
Under what conditions is research impact realised, scaled, sustained, or constrained within complex service systems characterised by interdependent actors, institutional complexity, and dynamic change?
How can researchers capture and evaluate both short-term and long-term impact in complex service systems characterised by interdependence, co-evolution, and evolving stakeholder relationships?
How can researchers identify both intended and unintended consequences of research impact in complex service systems characterised by interdependent actors and competing stakeholder interests?
What ethical considerations arise in the design, implementation, and measurement of research impact in complex service systems characterised by interdependent actors, power asymmetries, and potentially uneven distribution of benefits and harms?
How do power dynamics shape what is defined, recognised, and prioritised as “valuable” outcomes in evaluating research impact in complex service systems characterised by interdependent actors, institutional logics, and unequal stakeholder influence?
How are impacts of complex services experienced differently across stakeholder groups?
What stakeholder voices have been underrepresented in research in complex services?
How can organisations identify and manage unequal or unintended stakeholder impacts complex service systems in which actors are interdependent, influence is unevenly distributed, and outcomes are experienced differently across stakeholders?
How do professional, organisational, and societal interests align or conflict in complex service contexts?

Submissions Information

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

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

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 Q1, H-Index 173

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/02/2027

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31/03/2027

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Scopus Journal Call for paper: Environmental Geotechnics (Biopolymer Treatment of Alkaline Industrial By-products (IBPs) for Valorisation and Sustainable Reuse in Geoenvironmental Engineering )

anshikapradhan13 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:03:24 +0000

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

Author guidelines must be followed

Submissions are made using River Valley. Registration and access are available at: https://ice-review.rivervalley.io/journal/jenge

Once you have registered, navigate to the journal that you wish to submit to. Choose article type “Special Issue” and then the specific name from the drop-down menu on screen.

Journal Information: Scopus journal Q2, H-Index 33

Key Deadlines

Abstract deadline: 15th October 2026
Full submission deadline: 28th February 2027

For more details refer here

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Scopus Journal call for paper: Arts and the Market (Consumption trends of Cultural and Creative products in “phygital” contexts)

anshikapradhan13 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:53:59 +0000

This Call for Papers aims at collecting original papers which address the challenges faced by the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) in contemporary “phygital” consumption contexts. We expect to receive papers addressing holistic frameworks including contemporary theories explaining consumer behaviour regarding CCIs’ goods and services, papers presenting novelty in their qualitative or quantitative methodology, and ultimately papers contributing to the understanding of consumption of cultural products and services in contemporary environments, including economic, psychological, social, and technological purchasing factors. We welcome qualitative or quantitative papers, covering different countries, in the form of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contributions, based on primary and/or secondary data. Case-study analyses are also welcome if they enable to discover unusual and original realities in different geographic and cultural contexts.

In short, this Special Issue aims at identifying and mapping current trends of consumption of cultural and creative products recently adopted at individual or society level. This mapping aims at filling the gap in the academic literature and at highlighting “best practices” that could benefit cultural stakeholders in adopting and implementing effective policies in the future. The classification of CCIs adopted to the aims of this Special Issue is the ESSnet-Culture organization in 10 cultural domains: heritage, archives, libraries, book & press, visuals arts, performing arts, audiovisual & multimedia, architecture, advertising, and art crafts (cf for more details, ESS-Net Culture Final report, 2012, section 3.2).

Nowadays, several drivers are forcing societal transformation. We face some urgency on increasing sustainability through the implementation of circular practices and technological innovation. From a practical side, global connectivity, new information and communication technologies, robotics and the artificial intelligence (AI) development provide new ways of interaction between organisations and consumers. These new ways integrate immersive digital technologies with physical experiences to provide sustainable-oriented choices (Kotler et al., 2024). The CCIs meet these challenges by creating and delivering new cultural products while interacting with current targets and addressing new audiences. Similarly, scholars need to assess these rapid social, cultural and environmental changes to better understand society’s cultural trends and behaviour.

CCIs’ primary objectives include to utilise, create, modify, promote, or sell cultural, artistic, and historical content, as well as items related to education and management, often through intellectual property (Castaldi, 2018). CCIs serve as crucial drivers of economic growth (UNESCO, 2024), regional development (Kalfas et al., 2024; Sokół et al., 2023), cultural innovation (Sica et al., 2025) and social cohesion (Gohoungodji and Amarak 2023). Furthermore, CCIs aspire to humanise society through culture-sensitive strategies which foster cultural diversity and understanding among different cultures (Castellani, 2019). Recent research findings advocate the strategic integration of CCIs into broader environmental, territorial, social, and economic development agendas to understand the increasing complexity of the role of CCIs in our society (Sica et al., 2025).

New digital environments provide a powerful scenario to transform cultural and creative experiences into more memorable interactions (Batat and Hammedi, 2023; Li et al., 2026; Liu et al., 2025). Extended reality technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality may create a combination of physical, human, and digital elements to offer a unique “phygital” experience (Anwar et al., 2025; Gao et al., 2026; Gursoy et al., 2023).

CCIs’ phygital experiences may contribute to individual consumer (Lee et al., 2024) and to societal well-being (Pérez-Cabañero and Salvador, 2026) by providing spaces for fostering education, intercultural dialogue, social cohesion, and collective resilience (Fissi et al., 2025). However, further research is needed to better understand how emerging cultural and creative practices contribute to this goal.

List of Topic Areas

Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs)
Cultural consumption
Phygital experience
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Sustainability

Submissions Information

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

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

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 12

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 15/07/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 15/02/2027

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Scopus Journal Call for paper: Journal of Money Laundering Control

anshikapradhan13 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:24:34 +0000

Follow the Money but Then What? Rethinking Asset Recovery

The recovery of assets derived from unlawful activity has become an increasingly prominent element of domestic, regional and international legal frameworks (Ochnio, 2024). While historically associated with corruption and Anti-Money Laundering enforcement, asset recovery has evolved into a complex legal field (Helfer, Rose and Brewster, 2023). In an era marked by transnational financial flows, digitalisation, geopolitical instability, and increased concern about corruption, sanctions evasions and financial crime, asset recovery now occupies a central position in contemporary debates (Moiseienko, 2024). It is often observed that the focus remains on the investigation and prosecution of financial crime, while asset recovery is ineffective in some instances (UNCAC Coalition, n.d.). Recovery rates remain low, while the social and economic consequences of confiscation are unevenly distributed, often affecting family members, third parties, or economically vulnerable actors with limited access to legal remedies (Ivory, 2017). Additionally, recent reforms in the EU and the UK have intensified asset recovery efforts by strengthening preventive and non-conviction-based confiscation measures through expanded authority of relevant bodies (Androulakis, 2023; Borlini and Rose, 2024). However, concerns have been raised from a fundamental rights perspective regarding deficiencies in procedural safeguards and judicial oversight (Bernardini, 2025; Hryniewicz-Lach, 2025). These asymmetries raise questions that the legal literature has not fully addressed (Borlini and Rose, 2024).

This special issue seeks to explore asset recovery as an evolving legal concept, rather than merely an attachment to the Anti-Money Laundering regime. The aim of the special issue is threefold. First, it seeks to enhance the conceptual clarity by examining the foundations, rationales and objectives of asset recovery regimes. Second, it aims to evaluate the effectiveness and legitimacy of existing asset recovery mechanisms in responding to contemporary forms of financial crime. Third, the special issue seeks to promote a dialogue by analysing how asset recovery frameworks operate across different jurisdictions and legal traditions, as well as within international and regional legal orders.

List of Topic Areas

The Special Issue welcomes original scholarly contributions focused on a range of issues related to asset recovery.

Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

Conceptual and theoretical foundations of asset recovery
Criminal confiscation, civil forfeiture, and non-conviction-based asset recovery
Asset freezing, seizure, and confiscation
Asset recovery in corruption
Cross-border asset recovery and international cooperation
Digital assets, cryptocurrencies and emerging challenges for asset recovery
Asset recovery in the context of organised crime and financial crime
The role of financial institutions and gatekeepers in asset tracking and recovery
Future directions and reform of asset recovery frameworks.

Submissions Information

The Journal of Money Laundering Control is a social sciences journal that publishes the highest-quality papers on understanding the criminological perspectives of offending and money laundering control. We do not consider papers whose primary focus or implications lie in other fields, such as accounting, economics or finance.

The journal also accepts robust and critical comparative studies and legal discourses on the relationship between anti-money laundering, laws, regulations, legal institutions, and legal processes. Submissions must make an original contribution to important debates within the field of anti-money laundering and/or the countering the financing of terrorism.

Submissions are assessed based on the extent to which they contribute new knowledge to the field of money laundering control, as well as on the overall quality, coherence, and clarity of their argument and presentation.

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Author guidelines must be strictly followed.

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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”.

Note that all papers submitted to the special issue must comply with the aims and scope of the journal.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal. Papers submitted after the closing date for manuscripts submission (01/02/2027) will not be considered for publication in the special issue.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q1, H-Index 36

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 15/05/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 01/02/2027

Publication of the Special Issue is expected in 2027 and papers will be available for Earlycite when accepted.

Contact

If you would like to discuss the special issue and your potential contribution, please get in touch with the Editor-in-Chief, Dr Paul Gilmour at: paul.gilmour@port.ac.uk

Guest Editors

Dr Andreas Karapatakis, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, a.karapatakis@liverpool.ac.uk

Dr Dimitrios Kafteranis, Research Centre for Resilient Business and Society, Coventry University, dimitrios.kafteranis@coventry.ac.uk

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Scopus Journal call for paper: Personnel Review (Navigating the Work–Family Interface in the Digital Era: Challenges and Strategies)

anshikapradhan13 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:13:36 +0000

Personnel Review is pleased to invite contributions for the Special Issue titled “Navigating the Work–Family Interface in the Digital Era: Challenges and Strategies.”

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

Submissions Information

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

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

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 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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Scopus Journal Call for paper: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

anshikapradhan13 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:53:48 +0000

The emotional development approach: Understanding and supporting people with intellectual disabilities

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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Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see:

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 Dates

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026
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Scopus Journal Call for paper: Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education

anshikapradhan13 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:45:32 +0000

Neurodivergence, Neurodiversity, and Research Training: Rethinking Graduate Education

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

Lived experiences of neurodivergent graduate researchers, supervisors, and examiners.
Structural, cultural, and disciplinary conditions shaping participation.
Inclusive supervision, mentoring, and peer/community support.
Policy, governance, epistemic justice, and disclosure practices.
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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Scopus Journal call for paper: European Business Review

anshikapradhan13 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:46:27 +0000

The Human Dimension of Organizational Sustainability in the AI Age

Industry 5.0 calls a new paradigm in management that emphasizes human-centric, sustainable, and resilient leadership. Unlike Industry 4.0, which focused heavily on automation and efficiency, Industry 5.0 integrates technological advancement with human values. Based on this challenge, this special issue aims to advance understanding of how the human dimension – values, leadership, culture, and employee engagement – contributes to organizational sustainability in the AI age. It seeks to explore how organizations can remain ethically grounded, socially responsible, and resilient while embracing technological change. To achieve these aims, the issue invites to bring together interdisciplinary research, case studies, and theoretical contributions that highlight people-centered strategies for sustainable transformation. By fostering collaboration across disciplines, this special seeks to generate actionable insights for organizations striving to align AI integration with human well-being and sustainable performance.

The human dimension of organizational sustainability is increasingly recognized in the AI age yet underexplored in current literature. Parallel with the dawn of Industry 5.0 recent studies emphasize the need to balance technological innovation with human values, ethical leadership, inclusive work environment and culture in the AI age to ensure long-term resilience (Townsend & Romme, 2024; Keil et al., 2025). Scholars call for people-centered strategies that align with sustainability goals, particularly in navigating AI’s impact on work, well-being, and governance (Schwaeke et al., 2025; Bhasin & Krishna, 2025).

This special aim to offers a unique contribution by reframing organizational sustainability through the lens of human values, leadership, and culture in the AI age. Rather than focusing solely on technological implementation, it emphasizes the people dimension as a critical driver of long-term resilience and ethical transformation. By integrating insights from humanistic management, sustainability studies, and organizational behavior, the issue advances a holistic understanding of how organizations can remain purpose-driven, meaningful, fit to human nature, and future-ready amidst rapid digital change.

List of Topic Areas

Human-Centered Organizational Sustainability:
Exploring how values, purpose, meaning, and employee well-being drive long-term resilience in AI-influenced environments.

Leadership and Culture for Ethical Transformation:
Investigating leadership styles and cultural practices that foster motivation, learning, responsibility, and sustainable organizations.

Competencies and Workforce Development in the AI Era:
Identifying future-fit skills, learning strategies, and human capabilities needed to thrive in AI-augmented workplaces.

Social Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement:
Examining how organizations can be structured, designed, and address stakeholder motivation, learning, and engagement for social sustainability, and stakeholder trust in the digital age.

Interdisciplinary and Practice-Based Insights:
Featuring diverse perspectives from management, ethics, sustainability, and technology to bridge theory and practice.

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ebrev
Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ebr
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 Q1, H-Index 65

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submission: 30/03/2026
Closing date for manuscripts submission: 30/06/2026

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