AICSSH encourage submissions within Social Sciences studies and Humanities and across a variety of related disciplines and fields. Papers may address, but are not restricted to, the main theme from any of the following sub-themes. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable.
Anthropology
- Culture, Health and Illness
- Medical, physical and psychological Anthropology
- Women and Health: Anthropological and International Perspectives
- Economics of Health care
- Special need children and their families
- Health Psychology
- Sociology of Health care systems
- Organisational anthropology
- Human Rights: Anthropological perspectives
- Anthropology of social movements
- Urban anthropology
Work and Employment Relations
- Gender relations in comparative perspective
- Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Anthropological Approaches to Collective Identity
- Modern workplace and employment relationships
- Employment and wages in the global economy
- Culture, resources and power
- Labour relations and labour market policy
- Migrant labour and HRM strategies
- Social partnership, HRM and employment
- Workforce diversity, equality and intersectionality
- Temporary work, mobility and crisis of worker representation (trade unions)
- Transnational mobility and temporary staffing agencies
- Migrant women’s empowerment
- Relationship between paid and unpaid work
- Informal economies
Religious Studies
- Contemporary religion and society
- Ethnicity, race and religion
- Islamic studies
- Contemporary Judaism
- Asian religions and traditions
- Indigenous religions
- Inter-religious relations
Law and International Relations
- Culture, Religion and World Politics
- International Labour Law
- International Human Rights Law
- Environment and Climate Change Law
- Public and Private International Law
Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- Brain and Behaviour
- Industrial and organizational psychology
- Personality
- Social, Community and Cross-cultural Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Experimental Psychology
- Social Psychology of Health
- Business/Occupational Psychology
Sociology
- Crime and Socio-legal Studies
- Social stratification
- Political sociology
- Urban, Rural and Industrial Sociology
- Stratification, work and labour markets
- Sociology of the family, childhood and gender
- Social stratification, social mobility and social class
- Race and ethnicity
- Childhood development and schooling
- Immigration and ethnicity
- Social Policy, Social Work and Social legislation
Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Relationship between linguistic and literary studies
- Semantics
- Dialect and literature
- Literature, Religion and Art
- Bilingualism, Grammar and Word use
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Film and visual culture and linguistics
Information Sciences
- Theories of information
- Information behavior
- Informal information seeking serendipitous information and browsing
- Information systems and their use in creativity and innovation
- Information resources and technology
- Human information behavior
- Comics Studies, library and informational science
- Historic development and adoption of Open Access publishing