CALL FOR PROPOSALS (GRAD STUDENTS & POST-DOCS!)
Research on Social Issues in Management (V. 3): The Future of Diversity & Inclusion
Edited by Eden King, Quinetta Roberson, & Mikki Hebl
Few time periods in the past five decades match the intensity of intergroup conflict that Americans have witnessed in recent months. Polarized attitudes around immigration, visible sexual harassment charges, the Black Lives Matter movement, and White Nationalist protests have dominated the media and our lives. Furthermore, these powerful social dynamics also infect the places where we work and intensify strain on workplace issues that touch upon or involve intergroup differences. The volumes in this series will describe and instigate scholarship that pushes understanding of diversity in organizations.
In the first volume of this series, Pushing our Understanding of Diversity in Organizations, we invited "pushers," or researchers in D&I who help drive new ideas and perspectives, to offer their unique ideas about diversity and provoke the status quo. The second volume, Perspectives of Gender and Work, which coincides with the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, featured narratives of recognized scholars in the field who have advanced understanding of gender at work.
In our third volume, we want to look to the future of diversity and inclusion in organizations. This future focus refers not only to the content of the chapters-- which we hope will offer new ideas, emphases, theories, and predictions-- but also to the contributors. This volume will give voice to emerging scholars who are the future of our field; only graduate students and post-docs are eligible to submit proposals. Please see more details below.
Eligibility: First authors of all submissions must be graduate students or post-docs in the Fall of 2020.
Timeline: Brief (< 2 page) proposals due July 15, 2020. Full manuscripts (30-50 pages, all inclusive, APA formatted) due December 15, 2020. Feedback will be provided and revisions requested in early 2021.
Scope: We are open to and excited about any question, idea, or prediction that emerging scholars bring forward. The only parameters for this work are that it should (a) concern diversity, equity, and/or inclusion and (b) that it should be presented clearly in APA formatting. We encourage creativity in terms of content and in terms of presentation.
Indeed, unique features of this series include: (1) innovative or nascent ideas that extend beyond or push the boundaries of the format of scholarly journals, (2) genuine dialogue between multidisciplinary voices that are typically unheard in management science and therefore move these topic areas forward, (3) specific components (e.g., figures, summaries) that are easily interpretable and translatable, (4) integration of authors from across developmental stages, and (5) a set of reliable resources that inspire practitioners with actionable, up-to-date strategies and tools. Our goal is to transform diversity scholarship; success will be people studying diversity in ways they never had before, on topics that have never been studied, integrating ideas from disciplines they had never considered.
Process: Submit brief proposals in .docx or .pdf format to eden.b.king@rice.edu by July 15th. Please feel free to use this email address for any questions prior to that date.
We are excited to learn what our future holds!
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Eden King
Rice University
Houston TX
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