Call for Reviews Editors
The International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) invites expressions of interest in becoming an Reviews Editor for this fast developing journal. Reviews Editors will support the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Sue Yeandle, University of Sheffield, UK and other members of the IJCC Editorial team by undertaking specific editorial roles in relation to commissioning and editing reviews for books and conferences relevant to the remit of the journal.
We encourage applications by 30 May 2022. All applications and enquiries will be acknowledged.
Aims and remit of the journal
IJCC was established to advance scholarship and debate in the important and expanding field of care and caring. Multidisciplinary and international in scope, it publishes high quality contributions on care, caring and carers from all regions of the world. It 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. It explores the economic, organisational, political, social, legal, familial, transnational and ethical settings in which this care occurs.
IJCC is concerned with care provided as paid work and as support for family members, friends or neighbours; with care in home, community and residential settings; and with formal and informal care relations, organisation, systems and markets. It focuses on 'receiving' and 'giving' care and on the gendered nature and social, political, legal and economic status and circumstances of care and caring. It debates the support needed in localities, workplaces and health systems to make care and caring feasible and rewarding for carers, and dignified and supportive of independence for care recipients. The journal welcomes contributions on caring relationships, the ethics and political economy of care, care as a focus of moral philosophy and feminist analysis and care and caring as sources of claims-making and challenge and as the spur for national and global social movements.
Role of Reviews Editors
The role of IJCC Reviews Editor is:
- To actively commission reviews from suitable potential contributors on books and conferences that are of interest to the readership of the IJCC, liaising between publishers, book reviewer(s), and the Editorial Office, working to ensure delivery of 3x books and 1x conference review per quarterly issue. This role includes working in liaison with other Reviews Editors.
- To read and edit reviews for which you have taken responsibility prior to formally accepting them for publication, ensuring that the review, including spelling/grammar, are of a high standard and adhering to journal house style.
- When a review is ready for publication, to request authors to submit a final version via the Editorial Manager system (in a process to subsequently be authorised by the Editor in Chief).
- To provide additional support on occasion to Guest Editors for Special Issues, working in collaboration to solicit book and conference reviews that work to a particular theme.
Training on using the journal’s Editorial Manager system will be provided.
To apply, complete the Expression of Interest and send this with your summary CV (max. 2 pages) to IJCC Editorial Assistant Tom Hickman (ijcc@sheffield.ac.uk).
Tom Hickman will offer additional advice if needed, and will normally respond to queries from an Assistant Editor within 3-4 working days (Tom works part-time on the journal, on three days each week).
Training on using the journal’s Editorial Manager system will be provided.
The period of office for a Reviews Editor is negotiable, but in the first instance would normally of between 18 to 24 months.