Call for Abstracts: International Journal of Research & Method in Education Special Issue
E-research in Educational Contexts: The Roles of Technologies, Ethics and Social Media
Guest Editors
Dr Jocelyn Wishart, University of Bristol, UK
Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, UK
The International Journal of Research & Method in Education invites authors to contribute to a special issue exploring the impact and opportunities
underlying e-research in education. In particular, we are seeking articles on ways that digital innovations are changing how we think about research, how research is conducted and implications for how we conceptualise education. This would include how online
tools and digital technologies can influence data collection opportunities and the related interactions between researchers of different disciplines and between researchers and participants. For this purpose ‘e-research’ is presented as an umbrella term that
encompasses all online research methods as well as those involving digital tools for data collection and analysis.
Authors are encouraged to address the following or related themes:
· using digital tools for research in educational contexts
· implications of Big data for educational research
· multi-modal research approaches
· co-design in digital civics
· the benefits and challenges associated with online data collection and analysis
· the relationships between researchers and participants when using online tools and digital technologies
· the ethics of e-research
· digital ethnography
· how are openness and digital research understood and enacted in education
· social media, connectedness and digital research
· the use of mobile applications · where technology changes research and the researcher/participant relationship
Papers should not have been previously published nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A guide for authors along with other relevant information can be found on the journal’s homepage.
Papers should be approximately 7,000 words in length. Prior to submitting a full paper, potential authors are requested to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to the editors Jocelyn Wishart and Michael Thomas.
Authors should also submit an academic biography of no more than 150 words ([log in to unmask] and
[log in to unmask]) Following review, successful authors will be invited to submit their full paper in line with the schedule given below.
Important Deadlines
Submission of abstracts: 24th March, 2014
Invitation to contribute: 28th March, 2014
Submission of full papers for peer review: 7th September, 2014
Publication of the special edition: May 2015
Final submissions should be marked as ‘Special Issue on E-Research’ and made online at the International Journal of Research & Method in Education Manuscript Central site.