Call for Special and Regional Issues Editor

‘Social Policy and Administration’ has the following opportunity to join the editorial team as ‘Special and Regional Issues Editor’. We are looking for an experienced scholar with an international profile and international networks, and who has editorial experience.

The journal is the longest established journal in its field, and is international in scope. Quality contributions are received from scholars world-wide and cover social policy issues not only in Europe but in the USA, Canada, Australia and Asia Pacific. Whilst remaining faithful to its tradition in academic excellence, the journal also seeks to engender debate about topical and controversial issues. It received an Impact Factor of 1.239 in the recent Web of Science 2016 Journal Citation Report release.

The Special and Regional Issues Editor will be responsible for commissioning a line-up of high quality, topical special and regional issues. At present there is one special issue and two regional issues per volume and recent themes have covered Nordic and Baltic welfare states and changes in labour markets. He or she will report to the Editorial Board and the Wiley Publishing Manager on the special and regional issue pipeline at annual meetings, where the board decides the theme for the special issue. The Special Issues Editor will be a full member of the Editorial Board.

We will negotiate with the Special and Regional Issue Editor elect when their term of office would begin.

Applicants should apply by sending a CV and covering letter, including previous Editorial experience, to Charlotte Stone, [log in to unmask].

Deadline for applications: Friday, 2nd March 2018

Interviews for the post will be held mid/end of March 2018

If you have any questions about the role, please contact the Chair of the Editorial Board, Martin Powell, [log in to unmask]

Job Description:

• • Commission and oversee the production of Special and Regional Issues

• • Manage the manuscript review process via the journal’s ScholarOne submission website*

• • Make final decisions on whether an article should be accepted for publication

• • Work closely with the Editor and Reviews Editor

• • Work closely with the Editorial Board

• • Liaise as appropriate with the Publisher

• • Attend Editorial Board Meetings

*full training will be provided.

For more information and details of the live call for papers please go to: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9515

Professor Martin Powell

Health Services Management Centre

University of Birmingham

Park House

40 Edgbaston Park Road

Birmingham B15 2RT

Tel: 0121 414 4462

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