Submission

Article submission

We want to accept as many submissions as possible, but to keep everything running smoothly we do have a few requirements. Submissions should be around 3000 – 6000 words, and should be written in size 12 Calibri font. You are encouraged to submit work which has been pre-graded by one of your university lecturers. Also, please include a copy of your institutions signed ethical form, where research has been conducted with human subjects. To ensure that we do not own your work and the article aligned with our ethics please include the signed ethics form we have provided. At the moment we only accept submissions from students at The University of Manchester.

In order to give as many students as possible a chance to shine,  submissions will be limited to one per person each year.

Copyrights*

1. The author warrants that their work is authentic and original and has the sole ownership of the work. To the best of the author’s knowledge, the work is not plagiarised, that publication of the work will not infringe upon any copyright, right to privacy, proprietary or any other right of any person, corporation or other entity; and that any necessary permissions will have been obtained.
2. The author warrants that the work is not under consideration by another journal and has not been previously published.
3. The author agrees that UoMSJS has the right to publish the work via an open access website and in a print run, so it will be openly available.
4. The author agrees that they retain copyright to their work and therefore is responsible for pursuing any breaches of copyright that may occur. The author retains the right to publish work previously published in UoMSJS elsewhere. The author must notify UoMSJS in advance of republication of the work.
5. It is the author’s responsibility to secure the necessary copyright permissions for any images/tables/diagrams, etc. that they have reproduced within their work. UoMSJS is not responsible for any failure to do so.

*This copyright notice is based on the copyright notice used by The Sheffield Student Journal for Sociology.

To submit your work:

Please sign into your Google account and fill this form.

If you do not have a Google account please fill this form and send your work and ethics form, if applicable, to uomsjs.submission@gmail.com.

Peer review application

We are excited to have you on board as an integral member of the journal. Your specialised interests, knowledge and experience will inform feedback on the articles and the quality of the journal. You will be given an article to review which will be relevant to your field of interest on a topical or methodological level. 

We encourage master’s and PhD students to please fill out the form.

The process

Your article will be made anonymous by the editorial team and reviewed by two UoM students and one non UoM student who are most closely related to the topic of the article. Internal submissions will be reviewed by other members of the board, and/or one person from outside. Articles that make the first round of selection will be given feedback and the submitter will be able to make a revision and resubmit for a final decision. The articles which are accepted for the journal will be published online and in print.