Publishing opportunity
Call for guest editor(s): Race and ethnicity in BERA’s educational research journals
BERA is seeking an editor, or a small editorial team, to curate a virtual special issue of articles concerning race and ethnicity that have been published in recent years in our four journals – the British Educational Research Journal, the British Journal of Educational Technology, Curriculum Journal and Review of Education.
Our ambition is to offer readers an overview of the scholarship that has been publishedin BERA journals concerning race and ethnicity in recent years, highlighting trends, developments and unaddressed gaps in our journals’ outputs. This project reflects the Association’s commitment to bringing our resources and expertise to bear on issues of inequality and discrimination in education, the education research community and society at large, as set out in our Race Equality Strategy.
We are offering a small honorarium of £500 to support the curation of this issue, which should contain a selection of around 12 papers published across all four journals within a timeframe to be determined by the editor(s). It will also require an editorial explaining why each article was selected and their significance to the discipline, placing them in a wider context and structured argument. The editor/s will also be asked to produce either or both an article for Research Intelligence or the BERA Blog at the time of publication. The virtual issue will be housed on the BERA hub on Wiley online library and we may seek, in collaboration with the editor/s, opportunities to publish the editorial in other forms.
Ideally the project will be completed by the end of October 2022 although we could be happy to discuss the timetable with applicants as part of the selection process.
We invite proposals from individual or teams of educational researchers, based anywhere in the world and at any stage of their career. Please submit a brief statement (up to 1,000 words) in which you indicate your interest in curating this special issue, what experience you will bring to this task and your proposed approach to it, as well as any other relevant information such as short CVs. BERA’s Publications Committee will select the winning candidate(s).
Please submit your proposal by 5pm on Monday 4th April to publications@bera.ac.uk