Surveillance Studies & COVID-19 Publication Opportunities

For those of you who might be interested in developing your surveillance-studies scholarship around responses (and non-responses) to the coronavirus pandemic, we’d like to invite you to consider these two publication pathways:

1) Our blog, Blink, welcomes any editorials, commentary, preliminary reflections, or reaction pieces. Given that the COVID-19 crisis and its management are changing rapidly from day to day, our blog offers an ideal platform for our community to process these developments and enter into a dialogue with others while also producing preliminary scholarship to build upon for future, more sustained investigations. If you are interested in writing something for the blog, please get in touch with Ani Egwuchukwu, who manages the blog for the Surveillance Studies Network. Contributions should be written for an academic audience and be between 500–1000 words in length. All submissions will undergo basic editorial review before acceptance.

2) The journal Surveillance & Society welcomes fully developed, research-based articles that move beyond the “editorial” register to engage in careful analysis of the COVID-19 crisis. These contributions can be empirical, theoretical, or creative pieces, but they should be significant contributions that extend the field’s conversations in light of the unfolding situation.

Because all articles will undergo our regular peer-review process, this would be a longer timeline for publication, but we will do our best to group these articles together as they are accepted and integrate them into upcoming open issues (rather than have a stand-alone special issue). Article contributions should adhere to our usual guidelines and be no longer than 8000 words in length (excluding references). Submissions can be made through our journal platform here.

We wish you safety and health during these anxious times.