Editing a good special issue – Some insights from an editor's perspective
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
There are many reasons, why coordinating a special issue for a journal can be desirable: it allows you to investigate a theme in a more complex and encompassing manner, it offers a unique publication venue for a collection of interconnected articles, and it can have a positive career impact especially for early-career scholars. In his brief talk, Jens Jungblut will give some advice from the perspective of a special issues editor on how to write a successful special issue proposal, how to ensure an on-time delivery to the journal, and how to create additional visibility for your issue.
Jens Jungblut works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Since 2020 he is one of the special issues editors at Studies in Higher Education. Jens’ main research interests include party politics, policy-making, and public governance in the knowledge policy domain (higher education & research), organizational change in higher education, and the role of (academic) expertise in policy advice.
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