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Families, Relationships and Societies:
An international Journal of research and debate
Co-Editors Tess Ridge, University of Bath & Brid Featherstone, The Open University
Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a new social science journal designed to advance scholarship and debate in the growing field of families and relationships across the life course. It will explore family life, relationships and generational issues from interdisciplinary, social science perspectives, whilst maintaining a solid grounding in sociological theory and methods and a strong policy and practice focus. The title 'Families, Relationships and Societies' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures.
International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from the complexities of time, space, mobility and social change, to debates around family forms, practices and resources, intergenerational care and support, intimacy, individualisation, inter-dependency, identity, gender and generation. Encouraging methodological innovation, a life course perspective and dynamic approaches, the journal will transcend traditional boundaries that typically focus on one life course stage, one configuration of families or relationships, or one society.
Articles and contributions will be drawn from disciplines and subject areas across the social sciences and related lifecourse disciplines. The applied focus of the journal will embrace a diverse global field and encourage a critical engagement with policy and practice developments and issues within and across welfare regimes.
Open Space, co-edited by Professor David Morgan and Dr Jacqui Gabb, is a unique feature within the journal which provides an opportunity for debates across domains. It provides a dynamic space for critical engagement with contemporary debates, policy and practice initiatives, empirical research and recent publications in the fields of families, relationships and societies. This dialogic section will draw together different viewpoints on a topic, bringing authors into conversation with one another and providing up-to-date perspectives on local and global contexts.
Call for papers
Submissions to the journal are invited from subject areas across the social sciences and related life course disciplines. Papers will be expected to have relevance to academic, policy and practitioner audiences, enabling a wide range of perspectives to be brought together in one place to foster innovation and development within disciplines and advance interdisciplinary research and practice. For further information or to submit a paper please email the Editors c/o [log in to unmask].
Contributions to the Open Space section are invited from all subject and disciplinary areas. They can explore any topic that falls within the key themes of the journal and may include Debate articles, Practice and policy review and Review articles. For further information and to submit proposal or contribution, please contact David Morgan at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] or Jacqui Gabb at [log in to unmask].
For further information about Families, Relationship & Societies, please visit www.policypress.co.uk_frs.asp. Sign up for a free trial for 2012 to view all the available content as it is published. This trial is available for both individuals and institutions. Email: [log in to unmask] with your full name and contact address. You will receive an acknowledgement and an alert when the trial begins in March 2012 when the first issue is published.
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Implementing Economic Policy: An analytical framework by Colin Thain from Policy & Politics (Volume 15, Number 2) is free for the month of October.
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