CALL FOR PAPERS
Issue 4 (Volume 3, Fall 2016)
Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning is Canada’s online,
open-access, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal committed to profiling best practices in ‘engaged
scholarship’ informed by community-academic partnerships in research, teaching and learning. The
Journal occasionally publishes hard copies of its issues as well.
Our Mission is to promote and support reciprocal and meaningful co-creation of knowledge among
scholars, educators, professionals and community leaders, in Canada and worldwide; to inspire and
promote productive dialogue between practice and theory of engaged scholarship; to critically reflect on
engaged scholarship, research, and pedagogy pursued by various university and community partners,
working locally, nationally and internationally, across various academic disciplines and areas of
application; to serve as a forum of constructive debate on the meanings and applications of engaged
scholarship among partners and communities
Engaged scholarship most commonly refers to a range of collaborative research, teaching, and learning
initiatives rooted in sustained community-university partnerships and pursued across various disciplines
and social and cultural contexts. Community engaged research is oftentimes understood to be community
informed, situated as well as action-oriented such that the research process and results are useful to
community members in making positive societal changes.
For our non-thematic Issue 4, Fall 2016, we invite contributions from community and university based
researchers, teachers, and scholars who actively and purposefully participate in community-engaged
research across in various cultural settings and disciplines, in Canada and beyond, and whose work speaks
well to the Mission of the Journal.
We invite previously unpublished original reflective essays and research articles, review articles, reports
from the field, testimonies, multimedia contributions and book reviews focusing on community-engaged
scholarship. We welcome contributions from community and academic partners, educators, researchers
and scholars who pursue their work in collaboration with various communities in Canada and the world.
For guidelines for submissions please visit http://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/index.
Please submit your contribution by June 1, 2016. All submissions will undergo either editorial or double
blind peer review. Submissions for the Essays Section of the Journal will be subject to blind peer review,
submissions to other Journal sections will undergo editorial review.
Essays to be subject to blind peer reviewing should:
• Represent original, unpublished work that is not under consideration by other journals or collections
of essays
• Written in accessible language, to respect multidisciplinary nature of the Journal and the diversity of
our readers. Acronyms and abbreviations should be kept to the minimum.
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Be maximum 8,000 words
Include an abstract (200 words) and indicate up to five keywords
Be typed, double-spaced throughout, in 12-pt Times New Roman font
Be formatted in the American Psycholog5cal Association (APA) style, 6th edition
Have a separate cover page that includes the names, institutional affiliations, addresses, and contact
information of all authors
Include author biography/ies (no more than 50 words per author) on a separate sheet
Indicate that appropriate Institutional Research Ethics Board approval was secured, if applicable
Be formatted and saved in Microsoft Word (no PDF please)
Be submitted in two versions, one should include all information to be published, and in the other
copy information to be ‘blinded’ should be substituted with blank underlined spaces. Information to
be ‘blinded’ includes all text or data that will have to be removed from the essay for blind peer
review purposes
Submission should be accompanied by authors’ recommendations of at least four scholars, including
community-based scholars when applicable, from the author’s field who the Journal may approach
with the request to peer review of the issue’s contributions. Such recommendations should include
the description of (a) the credentials of the prospective reviewers as well as (b) the professional
distance between the authors and the proposed reviewers.
Please submit your materials via email to engaged.scholar@usask.ca.
Deadline for all contributions:
Projected date of publication:
June 1, 2016
Fall 2016
For submission guidelines consult http://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/information/authors, or talk to us at
the Journal.
We are looking forward to working with you,
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Editor
Penelope Sanz, Managing Assistant
ESJ Editorial Team
Engaged Scholar Journal:
Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning
University of Saskatchewan
Room 313 Thorvaldson Building
110 Science Place
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 CANADA
Tel. No.: +1306-966-2665
Fax. No.: +1306-966-5571
Email: engaged.scholar@usask.ca
http://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/index