British Society of Gerontology conference 2021 journal highlights and free articles
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Global Social Challenges Journal
How can we re-imagine society in an era of pressing global societal challenges? The new Global Social Challenges Journal, fully open access and not for profit, aims to facilitate thinking about these positive new trajectories and become the journal of choice to address the complexities of global social challenges across disciplines.
Want to know more? Read our call for submissions, and join the journal mailing list.
International Journal of Care and Caring
This multidisciplinary journal publishes high-quality contributions on care, caring and carers from all regions of the world. The International Journal of Care and Caring has a broad focus, covering care and caring for people of any age who have long-term conditions, disabilities or frailties, or who are seriously ill or near the end of life.
Enjoy our free sample issue which explores home care for older adults, the prioritisation of choice in eldercare, a feminist view of struggles in elderly care and home care worker’s experiences working with colleagues caring for people with dementia.
Don’t forget to take a look at our Editors’ Choice collection. Read our editors’ favourite articles from recent issues for free until 31 July.
The collection includes:
Epistemic injustice, face-to-face encounters and caring institutions
Sophie Bourgault
Responses to vulnerability: care ethics and the technologisation of eldercare
Antti Hämäläinen
Caring for older people: relational narratives of attentiveness, commitment and acceptance
Mary Breheny, Barbara Horrell and Christine Stephens
Read the full Editors’ Choice Collection here.
If you would like access to the latest scholarship and debate in the field of care and caring please recommend the International Journal of Care and Caring to your librarian. Ask them to sign up for a free trial and get 3 months of unlimited access to all of the journal’s content.
Call for Special Issue Proposals
Deadline: 27 August 2021
The editors are seeking special issue proposals that bring together research and develop a specific debate or topic on a theme relevant to the scope of IJCC. The special issue can include articles presenting theoretical, conceptual and/or empirical material. Your proposal can be internationally comparative or focus on one specific region of the world.
Want to learn more? Read the call for special issues for more details and instructions on how to prepare your proposal. Submissions close on 27 August 2021.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is published by Bristol University Press on behalf of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies.
This journal is dedicated to the needs of researchers studying the life course and using longitudinal methods at the interfaces of social, developmental and health sciences. It fosters cross-disciplinary and international endeavours and promotes the creation and exploitation of longitudinal data resources as well as their application to policy issues.
Open Access highlights
Socio-economic position at four time points across the life course and all-cause mortality: updated results from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study
Amy Heshmati et al.
Early-life circumstances and the risk of function-limiting long-term conditions in later life [Open Access]
Matthew H. Iveson, Chris Dibben and Ian J. Deary
Childhood socio-economic circumstances, cognitive function and education and later-life economic activity: linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 to administrative data [Open Access]
Amy Heshmati et al.
Enjoy our free sample issue here (free until 31 December 2021).
Highly Cited Article Collection
To celebrate Longitudinal and Life Course Studies’ new Impact Factor of 1.104 we have created a free collection of highly cited articles. Explore the Highly Cited Article collection for free until 31 August.
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Families, Relationships and Societies
Families, Relationships and Societies explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. This journal brings together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong focus on policy and practice, informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches.
Highly Cited Article collection
Families, Relationships and Societies has achieved a Impact Factor of 0.759 in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports. To celebrate this we have created a free collection of Highly Cited articles. Explore the Highly Cited Article collection for free until 31 August.
From our free sample issue:
Neither a professional nor a friend': the liminal spaces of parents and volunteers in family support [Open Access]
Jenny Fisher et al.
Want more from Families, Relationships and Societies? Take a look at our Editors’ Choice collection.