Call for undergrad student papers
I wanted to write now that we have published the second issue of
Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research to give you an update
on our progress and to ask if you would circulate the attached call for
papers for our next issue.
Volume 1 Issue 1 of the journal has proved to be a big success. We have
had nearly 600 readers of Vol 1 Iss 1 in the first two months alone and
our site has now had 25,000 hits and around three and a half thousand
individual visitors. We are now undertaking research to discover how the
publishing experience has affected students, including how students’
understanding of their area of interest might have been altered. We are
also developing training opportunities for students who want to get
involved with peer review or want to submit a paper for publication.
Building on our success we are now opening the journal up to submissions
from all undergraduate students, rather than just those based at Warwick
and Oxford Brookes. This will be an exciting development and any ideas
you might have on how we can spread the word of the journal to
institutions around the UK and internationally will be gratefully
received. Opening up to all students has meant that we have already
experienced an increase in submissions for our October 2008 issue - it
seems there is a real demand for a publication such as ours and
undergraduates are extremely keen to develop their work for publication.
In order to give as many students as possible the chance to submit their
work to our journal we need to ask for your assistance. Please can we
ask you to circulate the attached call for papers within your own
institution and beyond and let us know of any opportunities you might
know of to spread the word of the journal to both students and
colleagues.
With best wishes
Caroline
Caroline Gibson
Reinvention Journal Manager
Manager, ESRC Radicalisation and Violence Programme
Department of Politics and International Studies
The University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL