An Exciting Change of Direction for Exchanges

There are big changes afoot at Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal. In the interest of staying truer to our interdisciplinary mandate, we have decided to discontinue publication of regular issues and move to a specifically themed-issue publication model.

This means our popular ‘special’ issues, which highlight work on specific topics, practices, and themes—recent and past topics include Sustainability Culture, Research Culture, the Anthropocene, and the ‘Lonely Nerd’—will now become ‘regular’ issues. In other words, they are all we will publish.

As with our special issues, themed issues will approach one topic from the standpoint of a variety of disciplines—including those from the arts and humanities, STEM, and the social sciences—encouraging, we hope, the exchange of ideas and leading to new avenues for collaboration and exploration in the way only a truly interdisciplinary approach can. 

Each issue will be produced in partnership with guest editors and have its own separate call for papers. We aim to publish two to three themed issues a year in the first instance, with the potential for more later on. If you are interested in pitching a proposal for an upcoming issue, please don't hesitate to email me at Michelle.Devereaux@warwick.ac.uk for more information or to informally discuss your idea.

Likewise, if you have a general-issue submission currently under consideration at Exchanges, don't worry. We plan on publishing several more regular issues over the coming year, so we will still be actively reviewing regular-issue submissions. If you are interested in having your work appear in one of these final regular issues, you have until 29 June 2026 to submit. After that, our submissions portal will only be open when we are soliciting responses to a specific call for papers.

We are excited about this new direction and would love to know your thoughts on it too. Please get in touch  with any feedback or suggestions you may have.

Our next (regular) issue is due for publication next month (Spring 2026). Until then, I hope you enjoy our current issue on Sustainability Culture. 

Dr Michelle Devereaux
Managing Editor-in-chief, Exchanges

 

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