The UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion is excited to announce a new partnership with the Office for the President, Albion College, Albion, Michigan, USA, to support Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement.
‘We are thrilled to be so well supported by our two co-sponsors, UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion and Albion College. Together, they establish a firm and ambitious footing for the journal, helping us to bring innovative and important community-based research to a wide audience,’ said Margaret Malone, Managing Editor, Gateways.
Verity Firth, Executive Director of Social Justice at UTS, and Mathew Johnson, President of Albion College, have joined the Gateways Advisory Board as ex-officio members, while Gene Corbin, Dr Cheryl Forchuk and Dr Laura Nkula-Wenz have joined Professor Paul Ashton and Margaret Malone on the Editorial Committee.
‘I am very excited to join the Editorial Committee and support the journal’s substantial and meaningful work of providing an inclusive forum to discuss and reflect the full spectrum of community engagement activities,’ said Dr Nkula-Wenz.
‘It is a full circle moment for me. In 2012, I published my very first academic article with Gateways. The amazing editorial support, constructive feedback and care I received as an author were the opposite of what everyone had told me to expect from the academic publishing process, and this positive experience played a big role in my decision to pursue an academic career,’ she said.
Gateways’ first academic colloquium will take place on 31 March, to be hosted by Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA. The colloquium is part of a participatory ‘author collective’ process that has been adopted for the journal’s upcoming guest-edited volume on power. The colloquium is an important and tangible means to support the volume’s large and diverse body of submitting authors.