Call for Editorial Board Members from all sectors for proposed new journal

Publisher: Policy Press

Consulting editor: Helen Kara

Editors-in-chief: Su-ming Khoo, Harriet Shortt, Sophie Woodward

Our proposal is for a digital journal, open access if funding can be secured, published twice a year. We aim to publish innovative work to help develop thinking and practice around creative research methods. Our intended readership is the global research community within academia and beyond, including practitioner-researchers across a range of professions, artists, and educators.

The journal will encourage submissions on creative methods from all disciplines and sectors, at all stages of the research process, and on all aspects of research work, such as creative ways of thinking, using theory, managing ethical dilemmas and so on. We will also encourage submissions that share interdisciplinary knowledge and that address ethical and complex issues. 

We will welcome articles written or produced in creative ways, whether an entirely creative format (such as, for example, sociological fiction, poetry, photographic essays, or comics) or a format that expands the contours of academic journal conventions. We also publish articles in conventional academic journal styles.

The first two issues will mostly consist of articles from some of the 120 people who proposed presentations for the International Creative Research Methods Conference in Manchester on 11-12 September 2023.

We are seeking to appoint 25-30 editorial board members from across all sectors. Our aim is for the editorial board to reflect our intended readership and to be active and diverse. Editorial board members are expected to serve a three-year term, excluding periods of leave such as sabbatical or maternity leave. There are six key editorial board roles. Five are compulsory and the sixth is dependent on experience:

1. Attend and participate in board meetings twice a year
2. Review two submitted articles per year
3. Suggest other reviewers for articles
4. Help to promote the journal

• If sufficiently senior and/or skilled, offer mentoring to a junior board member

Board meetings will usually be held online. Times will vary to accommodate people in different time zones. Depending on board members’ geographical locations, there may occasionally be a hybrid meeting where some members can meet in person.

We would not expect Board members to have any conflicts of interest such as (but not limited to) being on the Board of, or editing a special issue for, a journal which could be considered as a competitor for the proposed journal.

If you would like to be considered for Board membership, please answer the following on one page of A4:

1. Tell us your name, position, and where you are based
2. Describe yourself in a sentence of no more than 25 words
3. State your area or areas of creative research methods expertise in bullet points. These may include (but need not be limited to):
   1. Arts-based research
   1. Creative quantitative research
   1. Transformative frameworks
   1. Indigenous research
   1. Digital research
   1. Embodied research
   1. Ethics
   1. Theory
   1. Multi-modal research
   1. Practice-based research
   1. Other (please state)
4. Write up to 200 words to tell us why you want to be on the Editorial Board and what you would bring to the journal
5. List any relevant projects and/or publications
6. Write a sentence explaining why you have no relevant conflicts of interest

Please send this to Harriet Shortt at Harriet.Shortt@uwe.ac.uk by 30 November 2023. We will communicate our decision by 31 January 2024.

If you have any questions or would like an informal chat about the role, you can contact Helen Kara.