Call for Blogposts, Northern Notes Blog, School of Sociology & Social Policy, Leeds

During April and May 2020, the Northern Notes Blog, a blog published by the School of Sociology and Social Policy (SSP) at the University of Leeds, is recruiting international scholars and final-year doctoral students to contribute to its ground-breaking series on the impact of the COVID-19 on society, culture and politics. We are looking for short contributions on a particular aspect of the contributor’s personal research that connects to the COVID-19 crisis. Country-specific proposals are most welcome, and area-specific ideas (e.g. tourism mobilities, social movements, art etc) are preferred. Thematically open but structured around the idea of cultural and/or societal crisis, these short posts will feature in the School’s official website and be advertised internationally by the University’s marketing team. For previous published posts and an overview of the School’s NNB programmatic statement please visit: https://northernnotes.leeds.ac.uk/about/

We welcome reactive posts. These posts are important for raising awareness of the contributor’s research expertise (and areas of non-academic impact), informing wider public debate of social scientific perspectives. The blog is overseen by an editorial team of academic staff. The core team includes Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli (Current Editor-in-Chief), Dr Roxana Barbulescu, Dr Sarah Marusek and Dr Abel Ugba, along with Director of Research, Dr Paul Baguley, Head of REF Dr Angharad Beckett and Head of School, Professor Bobby Sayyid.  All posts will be reviewed and copy-edited by the editorial team before publication.

Interested scholars, practitioners and doctoral students must have a mastery of English and a specific research agenda around which they will structure their blogpost (1,000-1,500 words). For initial expressions of interest please email Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli at r.tzanelli@leeds.ac.uk (email title: ‘NNB COVID-19 Series Expression of Interest’) with a 100-word abstract and a provisional title of your proposed blogpost. The deadline for accepting proposals is 15 May 2020.