A full month has gone by since the registration period for the upcoming EMES Conference opened (yes, it was back on 15 February already!). Many of you have already registered but we wanted to remind you that you have until 27 March to register and benefit of the early-bird fee. That is 10 days to go!

The Conference schedule is already available on the Conference webpage, together with information on available accommodation and how to get to the conference venue.

EMES is organizing this Conference, entitled "Social enterprise for sustainable societies", in partnership with the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Work, State and Society (CIRTES, Université catholique de Louvain) and the Social Enterprise Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP).

Event hashtag: #6EMESconf

EMES has teamed up with relevant publications across the fields of social enterprise to offer publishing outlets to authors presenting completed conference papers at the upcoming 6th Conference. In addition to ongoing submission opportunities, conference papers will have the option of being fast-tracked for selection in the publications included below; in some cases, journal editor-in-chiefs are considering the possibility of publishing special issues as well. For now, these are the journals that will consider special issues and fast-tracking for papers presented in the Conference:

... and more are coming!

Visit the Publishing opportunities page to learn more about these partner publications. 

EMES member Danijel Baturina is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Policy at Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. His doctoral research was closely linked to two of the EMES projects, namely WILCO (Welfare Innovations at Local Leven in favour of Cohesion) and TSI (Third Sector Impact - The Contribution of the Third Sector to Europe’s Socio-economic Development). We asked Danijel to share the main ideas in his dissertation which researched the impact of the third sector and volunteering on socio-economic development of Croatia. The result was the latest post in the EMES Junior Experts Blog (EJEB) entitled “Impact of the Third Sector on socio-economic development of Republic of Croatia.”  

As you know, EJEB aims to feature the ongoing work of PhD students from the EMES PhD Network. Danijel has participated in the fourth and fifth editions of the EMES PhD Summer School.

Best of luck to Danijel in his future endeavors and we count on your sustained support to EMES!

Hashtag: #EJEBpost

 

Four scholarship opportunities are available at EMES institutional member, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University:

As members of EMES, you know that you have a section devoted to share opportunities to collaborate with other researchers that may exist within your center or that have been passed on to you. Opportunities include research projects and calls for participation in joint publications but also proposals for joint conference participation, joint article writing, etc. To see these opportunities, log in into your personal member area of emes.net and click on the "Research opportunities" tab on the top.
 

Any questions? Please let us know at membership_at_emes.net

One of the journals with whom EMES has been able to team up to offer publishing opportunities for Conference presenting authors, Voluntary Sector Review (VSR) is seeking to fill two positions on its Editorial team:

    Editor, from January 2018 to December 2020
    Practice Editor, from summer 2017 to 2020

VSR is a journal with a growing international profile that publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, accessible papers on third sector research, policy and practice. 

The new journal Editor will join the current team of two Editors: Rob Macmillan (University of Birmingham) and Nick Acheson (Ulster University and Trinity College, University of Dublin). Full text of the Call for Editor can be downloaded here.

The new Practice Editor will replace a current Practice Editor, and will focus on editing practice-oriented papers. Full text of the Call for Practice Editor can be downloaded here.

Applicants should have a strong international reputation in voluntary sector scholarship. They are asked to provide a short CV highlighting relevant experience and a brief account of their strategic plans to maintain and develop the VSR’s international profile.

The deadline for applications is the 31 March 2017.