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Emerging Scholar Award: 2023 edition

The International Journal of Fashion Studies is pleased to announce its first Publication Award. This award is designed to encourage research in emerging, innovative and under-researched areas of fashion theory and practice.

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-fashion-studies#call-for-papers

We are looking to reward work that rigorously extends the parameters of current thinking within fashion studies. Submissions on all relevant areas are welcome, but we particularly invite articles considering the following areas:

• Fashion as a global industry and practice (globalization, systems of producing, distributing and consuming fashion)

• Fashion and dress’s interactivity with individual and social identities

• Dress as material culture, including its invigorations with the body, currents of feeling, memory and imagination

• Fashion’s multiple unsustainabilities and how they can or are being reimagined

• Digital cultures of fashion: changing communication systems, new technologies, artificial intelligence, and influencer culture

Submission is open to Ph.D. students and early career researchers (ECR) (defined as those whose Ph.D. degree was awarded within the past five years at the time of the submission deadline).

The winning article will receive a €500 award and will be published in the Journal following a double-blind peer-review process. Other submissions will also be considered for publication in the Journal with the editorial board providing constructive feedback on any papers of interest, allowing them to undergo the peer-review process.

The award will be determined by the editors of International Journal of Fashion Studies, with support from the editorial board, according to the following evaluation criteria:

• Relevance: The paper should be relevant to the field of fashion studies. We invite work with an arts and humanities and/or social science orientation.

• Originality: The paper should demonstrate original and innovative thinking and ideas.

• Methodology: The methodology used in the paper should be appropriate. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are welcome, as well as mixed methods

• Contribution to the field: The article should make and clearly communicate a substantial and meaningful contribution to the field

• Author status: Ph.D. student or ECR (defined as those whose Ph.D. degree was awarded within the past five years at the time of submission deadline)

• Unpublished: The submission must not be previously published or previously accepted for publication.

Please see the following link for guidelines on the formatting of the article: https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/41174/1/NfC.pdf.

Articles (6000–8000 words) must be submitted by 31 May 2023 and should be sent directly to Prof. Marco Pedroni, Co-Editor-in-Chief, at marko.pedroni@gmail.com, with the subject line ‘International Journal of Fashion Studies Emerging Scholar Award’. The winner of the International Journal of Fashion Studies Emerging Scholar Award will be notified by 31 August 2023.

In your email, please include:

(1) your institutional affiliation;

(2) a statement confirming the year your Ph.D. was awarded/expected submission date;

(3) confirmation that your article has not been previously published;

(4) confirmation that you are the author of the winning article and you agree to publish in International Journal of Fashion Studies.