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This issue will highlight the rich range of accounting education practices and research perspectives that exist within and are emerging from the continent.

This special issue will focus on the major accounting and accountability challenges which are affecting different healthcare scenarios throughout the globe.

This special issue calls for culture change and transformation research in line with the goal of Activities, Adaptation & Aging.

We are calling for papers that examine whiteness and expose white-centered epistemologies around which public administration and policy have been theorized.

This special issue focuses on the new frontiers in robotics, emphasizing world models, predictive coding, probabilistic generative models, and the free-energy principle.

We invite original 'AgeTech' research exploring, developing & evaluating innovative solutions to support the mental health & well-being of older adults.

This special issue welcomes submissions measuring TFP in African agriculture with a focus on field crops, high value crops, irrigated farming and livestock.

This special issue calls for papers on understanding of the impacts of climate change on vegetation using Earth observation technology.

Earth Observations provide key information on sustainable urban development, including air pollution, energy consumption, land degradation, urban heat islands

Annals of Medicine is currently soliciting research articles and findings in the area of SARS-CoV-2- or vaccine-induced immunity.

This special issue will discuss the future of construction design management by exploring the contributions of Lean philosophy and digital technologies.

This special issue welcomes research on new ideas into archival theory and practice to help the reshaping of the field.

This special issue examines the well-being and sustainability of Arctic and other cold region environments.

This special issue analyses the global success of the postcolonial music industries, specifically the South Korea pop music industry.

This special issue welcomes contributions that engage with the wide interface of religion and public administration in the Asia Pacific context.

This special issue will present empirical and theoretical studies of international large-scale assessments focusing on their use in systemic educational system change.

This special issue will publish papers on the development or evaluation of assistive technology outcome measures, or their implementation.

This special issue seeks to capture the current and emerging challenges and opportunities for feminist thinkers examining aspects of wealth in our present moment.

A special Issue call for papers on "Genders, Sexualities and Religious Education" to be published in the British Journal of Religious Education in May/June 2024.

This special issue will explore how Religious Education as a school subject engages with pandemics in the discourse.

This special issue seeks to examine intergenerational and interdisciplinary dialogue across Sociologies of Education in the Global North and South.

This special issue addresses cross- disciplinary enquiries into the transformative potential of generative design and automation in building and building processes.

This Special Issue aims to create a fertile ground for the discussion of a range of research topics, where organizations, paradoxes and history stand in a variety of crossroads.

This special issue will profile cutting-edge pain research conducted by trainees affiliated with Canadian institutions.

This special issue welcomes submissions on the dynamics and world-historical significance of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity.

This special issue aims to explore machine learning methods in cartography, with the aim of utilizing the huge amounts of digital maps for knowledge extraction.

This special welcomes research that aims to advance social work research and practice in a digital age.

This special issue addresses intersections of communication, technology, and development within and beyond China from historical, global, and comparative perspectives.

This special issue Invites examines various aspects of the relationship between education and inequality in times of uncertainty in Chinese societies.

This special issue welcomes interdisciplinary studies of community and urban governance in diverse countries and/or regions.

This special issue will bring together research and case studies of systems solutions for water resources management.

This special issue will examine how technology and telehealth may enable the delivery of mental and behavioral health care to older adults and their caregivers.

This special issue welcomes a diversity of topics that explore any kind of wave measurement system in the oceans, coastal and nearshore regions.

This special issue focuses on the role of emotion in temporal memory.

A collection including extended papers recommended by QRS 2021 and state-of-the-art research from the scientific community on Software Quality, Reliability & Security.

Submit research on quantum computing and developing quantum specific algorithms to bring about secure information transfer in a network.

This special issue takes critical stock of the uses of 'translation', broadly construed, for interdisciplinary thinking in and around the arts.

This special issue seeks contributions investigating how difference practices unfold in and around organizations.

This special issue focuses around honouring Indigenous ways of knowing/being/doing, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborations.

This special issue is concerned with new insights and disruptive changes needed to put education and governance at tone with the age of the Anthropocene.

This special issue examines Gender and Development ‘canon’ to reassess and re-engage with its knowledge (re)production & practices in & out of the classroom.

This special issue aims to shed light on and conceptualize the power relations between computational design, the built environment, and society.

This special issue creates a platform where scholars can research and theorize how code mediates newswork and how it affects news routines and newsworkers.

This special issue aims to present, discuss and reflect on the characteristics, challenges, and unique aspects of Early Childhood Education in Israel.

This special issue examines the effects of uncertainty shocks related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern European economies.

This special issue aims to present valuable research on the application of stabilisation policies & adaptation of agents’ behaviour during turbulent times.

This special issue welcomes research related to issues with the global supply chain.

This special issue aims to explore the current and ongoing research of the role of digital technologies in economic development using business analytics models.

This special issue will focus on the role of ecosystems for carbon neutrality, technology and policy for mitigation, and trade-offs between ecosystem benefits.

This special issue aims to improve the understanding of risks assessment of biodiversity loss at species and ecosystem levels.

The special issue will address the options and trade-offs for biodiversity conservation and ecological security improvement of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

This special issue examines the growing emphasis on social/human dimensions in ecosystem sciences and the resource nexus challenges points need for more in-depth, transdisciplinary understanding.

This special issue aims to bring together a set of contributions discussing the role of education in the social contract tradition.

Submissions of research papers that can provide philosophical & theoretical insights into the complex and intertwined relationship between CT and curriculum.

This special issue is aimed at promoting research broadly related to digital finance in China and around the world.

This special issue aims to examine the theme of digital innovation and high-quality development.

This special issue is aimed at promoting research broadly related to Fintech Theories and its applications in Emerging Markets.

This special issue is aimed at promoting research broadly related to energy commodity management in China and around the world.

This special issue aims to investigate and examine socioeconomic dynamics of hydrogen energy.

This special issue encourages cross-disciplinary contributions that propose new hyperautomation frameworks, innovative approaches, and novel applications.

Investigating how sustainability grand challenges influence business families & family enterprises' entrepreneurial practices, processes, & outcomes.

This special issue offers a context perspective of the conceptualisation and empirical understanding of the relationship between ageing and entreprepreneurship.

This special issue invites submissions from colleagues in the field of entrepreneurship and beyond to reflect on and write on new ways of seeing poverty.

A special issue aiming to investigate the intersections between new communication technologies and environmental issues in a nuanced fashion.

This special issue welcomes critical reflections on ethical issues in real-life experiences that matter.

This special issue investigates the negative impact of war on mental health and how we can support trauma survivors.

This special issue aims to investigate the prevalence and impact of sexual violence and how to prevent it in the future.

A special issue on developing transformative & innovative assessment & feedback approaches for teacher educators to inform digital learning.

What are the processes at micro, meso and macro level that can mitigate and avert the enactment but also the routinization of counterproductive work behavior?

This special issue aims to advance our understanding of institutional work by publishing contemporary research on how individuals influence sport institutions.

This special issue investigates the actual and potential institutional evolution of the EU and EMU and the political and economic future of Europe.

This special issue examines the challenges, suffering, or exploitation of the underprivileged, the unemployed, and underemployed around the globe.

This special issue will explore the chemistry and biology of lipid peroxidation and innovative strategies that may lead to novel therapeutic approaches.

This special issue welcomes research on new trends and applications of geo-spatial information.

This special issue welcomes new advances on forest volume/biomass/carbon estimation using multi-source data.

This special issue will highlight current advancements in geospatial applications that include AI for reducing challenges in remote sensing and geoinformatics.

This special issue is dedicated to presenting the latest advances on remote sensing and machine learning applications on carbon neutrality.

This special issue examines new technology in the mobile information era.

This special issue examines the effects of the phylloxera crisis on trade, production, and consumption in the global wine industry beyond Europe.

This special issue deals with histories of disgust in the context of histories of food, empire, and emotions.

This special issue examines teachers’ unions and educator organizing in diverse geographical contexts.

This special issue focuses on education for sustainable development and global citizenship in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

This special issue will highlight research on the formation of neonatal gut microbiome in health and disease, and show avenues for future therapeutic interventions.

This special issue welcomes research on how health and psychological knowledge can help to mitigate and adapt to climate change as to improve health.

This special issue focuses on the development and optimization of thermal energy storage measures for building heating and heat storage.

This special issue aims to seek solutions to questions related to the mobility, persistence & transformation of contaminants in the soil-groundwater systems.

This special issue will gather diverse approaches on career success across national boundaries and cultural contexts.

This special issue examines the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic from international perspectives.

This special issue examines intelligent systems for people with diverse abilities experiencing cognitive and learning challenges.

This special issue welcomes submissions that make a significant contribution to the topic of Operations Research (OR) and Machine Learning.

This special issue will examine the burgeoning field of wildfire smoke research and the potential health effects from these exposures.

This special issue will address the public health challenges of the respiratory effects of inhaled toxicants on marginalized communities worldwide.

This special issue aims to exchange the latest achievements in artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things to address the challenges smart buildings face.

This special issue examines the development, planning and implementation of a building within an overall sustainable development scheme.

This special issue will provide new perspectives on the question of heterodoxy in palaeoscience from the eighteenth century to the present.

Potential topics of this issue include shortwave/longwave radiation, all-wave net radiation, albedo, latent/sensible heat flux, & surface temperature.

This special issue addresses how digital automation & IT-based applications can be used & made applicable to benefit the wood supply chain.

This special issue welcomes submissions focused on novel spatially-aware deep learning approaches and applying recent approaches to human geography topics in a novel way.

This special issue calls for advanced research in Human-Computer-Interaction in the Metaverse.

This special issue aims to publish papers that provide HCI Perspectives in Future Mobility including UI, UX, Safety, Trust, and Acceptance Issues.

A call for papers addressing how the international and Chinese societies have been benefited from the HCI innovations in China.

We welcome researchers, scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines to present novel and innovative ideas to our Special Issue.

Focusing on how can intelligence provide awareness, warning, & estimative analysis for asymmetric conflict or any aspect of special operations.

This special issue aims to create a platform for exchange between intelligence and psychology.

This special issue focuses on innovative management and production optimization methodologies for the study of carbon reduction engineering.

This special issue will assess the implications of Government Performance and Results Act.

This special issue examines Green public procurement in public administration and management.

This special issue welcomes submissions with new progress and substantial contribution to remote sensing of night-time light.

This special issue encourages critical discussions and advancements about the politics involved in physical activity advocacy and policy.

The special issue explores how evolutionary thinking can contribute to the field of strategic communication.

This special issue welcomes research on advanced environmental forecasting methods & techniques for protecting environment and accurate climate change.

This special issue explores the significance of Tibet in supporting many major river systems of Asia.

This special issue explores water management in agriculture through technological, institutional and policy aspects that are essential to achieve food and water security.

Identify the major challenges and the policy initiatives to be adopted for sustainable water management of the Caspian Sea.

Special issue on Economic policy in an era of crises & uncertainty, tackling global inequality & financial instability, building forward post-covid, & net zero.

This special issue unpacks persistent efforts to restrict public discourse to only those interests that overlap with corporate and governmental agendas.

This special issue welcomes articles that provide meaningful conversations about the constructions of the self and agency of learners and teachers.

CASP 2022 will be performed online on 25-26 May 2022. The special issue will cover the review and the research articles.

This special issue brings together cutting edge research and thought critically examining the role of outdoor adventure as ‘ideal’ for health and wellbeing.

Special issue exploring the place, use, & impact of mobile technologies & networked spaces in outdoor education.

This special issue seeks to provide insights on advertising inclusivity, or lack thereof, to understand the social and cultural impacts of advertising.

This special issue will recognize Fred Brauer's valued contributions to applied mathematics and his role as a long-time member of JBD.

Inviting submissions for original research in tune with the UN SDG11 to achieve a sustainable future for all.

This special issue aims to provide a collection of papers that advance theory and empirical evidence on cross-border innovation.

This special issue seeks to advance our understanding of the Russia-Ukraine war and the causes and consequences.

This special issue calls for papers investigating all aspects of business & finance explaining the Vietnam economic growth miracle.

Submissions are encouraged with a focus of offering an evaluation of BRI investments in sub-regional Southeast Asia with attention on China’s border areas.

This special issue focusses on distraction and its relationship to attention, memory, metacognition, cognitive control and performance disruption/facilitation.

This special issue aims to examine advertising trends in the digital era.

This special issue examines cybercrime, focusing on strengthening effective and inclusive cybercrime policies.

This special issue's main focus is on the security issues of the applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).

Special issue exploring dance teachers’ strategies for promoting their & their students’ physical & psychological health in PK-12, post-secondary, & independent studio venues.

This special issue will contain high quality papers on the transformation of organisational decision making through intelligent decision support.

This special issue aims to address new developments of Lozi, Hénon, and other chaotic attractors, from theory to all possible applications.

This Special Issue aims to address the increasingly complex cybersecurity problems using advances in AI.

This special issue welcomes submissions that advance our understanding of how State-Owned Enterprises behave abroad.

This special issue aims at understanding the exploitative and destructive human behaviour through the lens of ecotourism by embracing an interdisciplinary approach.

This special issue examines the implications for ecotourism and protected areas.

This special issue turns the lens of #metoo towards educational leadership and policy globally when it comes to gender-based violence and injustice.

This special issue examines how government policies respond to climate change to achieve sustainable economic development and environmental sustainability.

Special issue focused on practical policy to achieve green economic recovery, mitigate greenhouse emissions & manage the environment in the post-COVID era.

Identifying the timelines of chemical, material, or biological pollution from the past 12,000 years of the earth’s history.

This special issue evaluates the effects of pesticides on environmental and human health and exploring possible solutions.

This special issue aims to imagine what the future of race, ethnicity and culture would look like in relation to the selected issues and problems.

This special issue seeks to examine the gap of black families receiving attention in family communication scholarship.

This special issue focuses on disseminating scientific evidence on the topic of social work practice with Chinese-background older adults.

This special issue's focus is on the role of culture on the online brand community (OBC) members' anti-brand retaliatory behaviors, & brand conflicts.

The marketing impact of IDEA efforts because of global disparities and inequalities highlighted by recent events is the focus of this special issue.

This special issue seeks to inform how we can improve local and global pandemic-related communication in the future.

This special issue will explore how different groups of students perform at university and the implications for higher education policy & practice.

This special issue aims to promote research works from academia and practitioners to explore how Industry 4.0 technologies help develop sustainable logistics systems.

This special issue deals with all aspects of international relationships (exporting, supply chain) such as cultural issues, control, trust and opportunism.

This special issue examines the role of artificial intelligence as an enabling technology to enhance advertising and an effective tool for advertising research.

This special issue welcomes research on topics relevant to Relationship Marketing at B2B and/or B2C levels in the agri-food industry.

This special issue will be addressed to the subject of optimal experience, as a tribute to the late Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

This special issues seeks to address the substantial challenges the Anthropocene poses to marketing ethics.

This special issue focuses on the response strategies most likely to reduce the damage caused by brand crises.

We invite service research in an age of crises that contributes to (re)building sustainable service research for society as a whole.

This special issue aims to offer a contemporary perspective on routines & rituals, to extend our understanding of these concepts in both scope & criticality.

This special issue examines the mainstream production of concepts used in the fields of Multilingualism and Applied Linguistics and study their circulation in and across northern and southern academic circles.

This special issue will examine the entanglement of memory, materiality, and forgetting in the postcolonial South Asian diaspora.

This Issue will feature a range of articles on 21st-century African fiction, including its representation of migration and diaspora as well Africa-based topics.

Help fight inequality, criminalization, brutality, and surveillance through reform or abolition of current policing practices in the Global North and South.

This special issue is meant to offer a comprehensive view on love, and what may harm it.

This special issue aims to capture, test, refine, critique, and expand diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) related theory in public relations scholarship.

We welcome papers that illuminate successes, failures, opportunities, and challenges around RI and RRI within the dynamics of institutionalization.

This special issue seeks to examine the most common form of intrafamilial child sexual abuse.

This special issue invites research papers on the use of agent-based models to understand, explore, and manage urban physical and socio-technical systems.

This special issue will focus on research developments in simulation methodology and analysis as well as applied case studies.

This JOS special issue aims at compiling recent advances, both of theoretical & practical nature, in the fields of simulation-optimization & simheuristics.

This special issue examines the role and future of entrepreneurship and innovation in the metaverse.

This special issue aims to bring together and showcase a growing body of complex systems research in sport.

This special issue focuses on the pivotal role of marketing analytics in the fourth industrial revolution through the lenses of big data, AI, cloud, and IoT.

This special issue focuses on how new ‎technologies give rise to innovation in marketing strategies.

This special issue explores the need to address environmental pollution, climate change and energy security.

This special issue looks at how data and indicators on sustainable tourism impact decisions and policy making, governance and practice.

Necessity is the mother of innovation, as evidenced by the Pandemic. This requires a change of old entrepreneurial mindsets to thrive again.

This special issue examines what forms of vocational education & training are needed for just and sustainable skills futures.

This special issue examines the critically important but largely uncharted roles, practices and impacts of science journalism in the Global South's development context.

This special issue seeks contributions on global, local and alternative practices of educational technology that go beyond Western-centred narratives.

This special issue seeks to amass a rich collection of scholarship on death, loss, and leisure.

This special issue encourages scholarship around the theoretical and methodological issues of emotions within contemporary leisure contexts.

This special issue explores the middle and long term impacts of 'lockdown' of the pandemic on leisure lives.

This special issue welcomes submissions on the most recent developments of the Water Energy Food nexus.

This special issue aims to publish the state-of-the-art research on decarbonisation in shipping and green shipping management.

A special issue describing the value of family science & the state of the discipline, and promoting discussion of future directions.

This special issue invites submissions on Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, and Access (DEIA) initiatives in health sciences libraries.

This special issue examines the impact of diversification, decolonization and liberation projects and initiatives have in and across academic libraries.

This special issue invites submissions with a focus on the diverse interactions of animals with the microbial world.

This special issue examines social work as a multilingual practice, and the fact that multilingualism is commonly overlooked in social work research, education and practice.

This special issue will examine the status and development of professional work in the context of welfare-to-work.

This special issue will discuss recent progress in studying phase separation in nuclear biology, including chromatin organization and gene regulation.

This special issue welcomes submissions on the most common infectious cause of blindness.

This special issue welcomes submissions on Retinoblastoma to celebrate the life and work of A. Linn Murphree, MD.

This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Andreas Griewank.

This special issue examines reconciliation as peacebuilding and conflict transformation within and among nations, countries, communities, peoples, and organizations.

This special issue addresses the urgent real-world consequences of a lack of translation and scholarship to the advocacy connected to food industries and food studies.

This special issue seeks to understand if there are alternative methods for understanding unintentional discrimination.

This special issue aims to gather new philosophical and psychological work on individual and institutional dimensions of trustworthiness.

This call is intended for researchers in broad and novel areas of organosulfur (and related elements) chemistry.

What are the values, ethics and motivations of professional planners that shape their professional practice and choice of work?

This special issue examines the South African political process in 2021.

Special issue on new models & tools for the evolution of the Supply Chain towards Industry5.0 to create human-centric collaborative ecosystems.

This special issue welcomes submissions that explore issues of culture, race and ethnicity in the criminal justice system.

This special issue wants to bring about a renewed focus on qualitative methods in public administration.

In this special issue we call for articles that investigate how public management affect street-level bureaucrats’ roles and work, and outcomes for citizens.

This special issue invites submissions exploring the intersection of social equity theory with the foundational elements of public administration and management.

This special issue examines how public procurement can develop and implement a more strategic approach to the management of supplier relationships.

This special issue seeks contributions related to citizen satisfaction research that make a theoretical contribution or include an advancement in research design.

This special issue welcomes contributions on accounting, auditing and accountability practices during and after human-made disasters from different geographies.

This special issue will look at public sector accounting and reporting, specifically whole of government accounting: what works and what doesn't work.

A special issue on what countries can learn from each other about governance of municipally owned corporations.

This special issue aims to keep alive in the scientific community the memory of Dr. Ermanno Grinzato, focalizing the attention on his main research activities.

This special issue will explore changes in the spatial distribution of workplaces and the transformation of regional labour markets in the post-Covid-19 economy.

This special issue will investigate and discuss the justifications for regional policy and its objectives under the new circumstances we are living in.

The special issue aims to collect papers about opportunities, threats, and capabilities to combine the green and the digital transitions at the regional level.

This special issue asks how social businesses can ensure commercial sustainability while fulfilling their commitment to regional development.

This special issue invites contributions on the legacy of Professor Arthur P. Cracknell in the field of remote sensing.

This special issue aims to understand the connections between ideas, concepts, procedures, and representations used in teaching and learning mathematics.

This special issue seeks to examine the role of presence in communication.

This special issue will include explorations of various forms of exceptionalities that show up in gifted individuals.

This special issue will examine second-home tourism and its impacts on individuals, communities, service providers, and property markets.

This special issue aims to focus on inclusive resilience in tourism and the current state of knowledge on resilience research within Nordic tourism scholarship.

Call for research on the transition of tourism in coastal communities to more resilient futures. Focus on change practices, innovation & governance.

This special issue aims to examine common bottleneck problems of various membrane technologies individually or as a hybrid process.

Research advancing understanding of CSB in populations of women, gender nonconforming, non-heterosexual, & ethnically diverse individuals.

This special issue welcome submissions from different contexts in different countries to focus on diverse football political cultures and frame a typology of the same.

This special issue welcomes research that considers diversity and inclusion, with studies that focus on exploring the role of accounting, accountants and the profession.

This special issue will investigate the societal impact and political implications of nationalism, populism and extremism internationally.

This special issue examines biochar and the application on soils as an amendment for improving plant productivity and conserving environments.

This special issue will explore the impact of western popular music in the Indian context, spanning a wide range of musical forms and historical contexts.

This special issue aims to bring together conversations about the Partition in literary, visual, oral and material culture.

In this special issue, we seek contributions that show how regional economics, economic geography and spatial econometrics can talk to macroeconomics.

This special issue invites contributions that examine the significance and relevance of studying sports coaching through a cultural-historical theoretical lens.

This special issue aims to assess Roman Polanski’s works and his legacy, with the emphasis on his less well-known and canonical films.

This special issue provides a forum for adult educators to share their work in analysing, and responding to social constructions of masculinity and femininity.

This special issue aims to attract and present the most recent innovative research on all aspects of cucurbiturils and related cavitands.

This Special Issue is a call for research groups to highlight members of their team who are 1st Generation into Higher Education.

This special issue welcomes contributions that seek to clarify and advance the post-2030 agenda.

This special issue is conceptualized to highlight some of the recent development in the field of waste management.

This special issue will focus on novel strategies and innovative processes for removal of trace organic contaminants and micro-organisms.

This special issue examines professional digital competence in preparing new generations of teachers for teaching in today’s classrooms.

We invite articles that critically analyze the roles of higher education (HE) teaching in achieving environmentally just sustainability.

This special issue will focus on clinical neuropsychological practice with sexual and gender minority groups.

The series will provide the opportunity to document the current professional status of clinical supervision in a range of disciplines around the world.

This special issue covers Fintech and Risk, in particular applied work specializing in cryptocurrency, fraud detection, hedging, quantum finance and AI in finance and risk management.

For this special issue, we are expecting contributions that offer historical perspectives of the treatment of coordination issues in micro- and macroeconomics.

How did the economics of the public sector change in the 1960s and 1970s? We are inviting papers on the history of this rupture.

This special issue welcomes submissions devoted to the conservation strategies implemented to contrast climate change.

This special issue will advance knowledge on the impact of algorithmic decision-making on inequality and diversity in organizations.

This special issue will address issues of national context and time in human resource management.

This special issue will enhance knowledge on relationships between HRM interventions and multilevel manifestations of resilience and resilient societies.

Seeks to understand how remote work is transformed after COVID-19, & how HRM should spearhead the remote work transformation of the future on a global scale.

This special issue explores labour migration and citizenship changes in sport from historical, sport policy, and legal perspectives.

This special issue will interrogate the Capitalocene with respect to environmental and sustainability education and by deploying praxis and the imaginary.

This special issue aims to encourage interdisciplinary research to identify emerging issues on revolutionising services with cutting-edge technology.

This Special Issue aims to find best suited top-level concept(s) for online translation practices, uncover ideologies behind them and address ethical questions.

This Special Issue aims to highlight the inherent potential of Translation as a meaning-making/taking activity that contributes to the emergence of the social.

This special issue aims to explore the complexities of conveying and mediating contemporary political discourse from Chinese to Western contexts and vice versa.

This special issue examines the role of touch in performer training in which race, gender, dis/ability, and health ask who can/should touch, and why/when/where?

This special issue invites a broad range of contributions from scholars and artists globally, in order to offer a contemporary consideration of training for directing.

This special issue seeks to understand how to rebuild nature-based tourism post pandemic in a sustainable, equitable, climate-friendly & conservation-compatible capacity.

Wellness tourism development should empower and valorise local communities, providing voice to their perspectives and preserving their ways of life.

This special issue seeks to explore certain apparent fragilities and frailties in the contemporary condition of Tourism Studies.

This special issue will highlight advances in our understanding of gene expression on the level of individual cells.

This Special Issue encourages the presentation of studies focusing on tribology, surface engineering, interactions of lubricants within machining.

This special issue will focus on the challenges faced by VC in the times of Covid-19 and implications for the post-pandemic scenario.

This special issue will focus on advanced methods for the design of welded joints.

This special issue invites papers that reflect on all aspects of archaeology and heritage in China.

We invite papers that address topics such as hominin migration & adaptation on islands, the effects of insular endemism, & hominin interaction.