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LIVES Working Papers: Call for papers

Authors can submit an electronic copy of their paper by using the submission form.

Aims and scope

The LIVES Working Papers (ISSN: 2296-1658) are a social science paper series, published by the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES. It is designed to advance scholarship and debate in the growing field of life course research. It explores the effects of vulnerability on health, family and work life, and its implications for social policy, from interdisciplinary social science perspectives, whilst emphasizing a solid grounding in sociological, psychological, demographic and economic theory and methodology.

The series encompasses the diversity of vulnerability and its spill-over effects on social and personal relationships, institutions, and minority groups, and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and life domains. Interdisciplinary in scope, the paper series covers a wide range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues in life course research and related fields, ranging from methodological or research reports, literature reviews, and data descriptions, to papers presented at conferences or potential future journal articles.

You can consult all the working papers published in this series here.

 

Call for papers

Submissions to the LIVES Working Paper Series are invited from subject areas across the social sciences and related life course disciplines, for instance, social-psychology, sociology, social policy, population studies, socio-economics, labour market studies, education and youth studies, gerontology and ageing, health and social care, and social science history. Papers are expected to have relevance to academic, policy, and practitioner audiences, enabling a wide range of perspectives to be brought together, first to facilitate advances within disciplines, and second, to develop and enhance interdisciplinary research.

Papers receive only limited review. Please let the Editors know whether your paper will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal or is meant to remain a working paper (research report, descriptive results). Authors are responsible for the presentation of facts and for the opinions expressed therein, which do not necessarily reflect those of the LIVES Centre. Paper submission to this series does not prevent authors from submitting to and publishing in peer-reviewed journals. On the contrary, it is desirable that papers get published in a variety of journals, thus giving the LIVES Working Paper Series visibility.

Articles should have a maximum length of about 10,000 words (including references). An abstract between 150–350 words should be included. All articles are refereed to assess their suitability for publication. For guidance on the preparation of your manuscript, please follow the submission guidlines available on this page.

 

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief: Davide Morselli (Editor-in-Chief)

Editorial Board: Jean-Michel Bonvin, Flavia Fossati, Matthias Kliegel, Rafael Lalive, Nicky Le Feuvre, Oana Ciobanu, Dario Spini, Matthias Studer

Editorial Assistant: Mengling Cheng

Publisher: Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES (LIVES Centre)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS AND REVIEWERS

All disciplines are invited to submit and publish in the LIVES Working Papers. Authors are however expected to clearly relate their paper to the life course paradigm. The following authors' guidelines refer particularly to research and conceptual papers; the submission standards for methodological and research reports and literature reviews are more flexible. Papers receive a limited review and authors are fully responsible for the content they publish.