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Psychology in Society (PINS) Special Issue- Call for Papers

by | Jun 4, 2026 | Collaborations, Events and Announcements, Psychology in the Media, Research and Education

Call for Papers
Psychology in Society (PINS) Special Issue
The Palestine Exception: Examining the Fault Lines

Special Issue Editor: Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu

This special issue seeks contributions that document and critically examine patterns of silence, complicity, solidarity, and resistance within psychology and related disciplines in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and broader structures of coloniality, violence, and injustice.

Psychologists, scholars, practitioners, activists, and researchers from across the world are invited to submit original contributions that explore responses within their local, regional, or national contexts.

Areas of Interest:
– Professional and institutional responses to the genocide in Gaza
– Silence and complicity within psychology and academia
– Decolonial, liberation, and critical psychologies
– Professional ethics, advocacy, and solidarity
– Academic freedom and institutional accountability
– Local and regional case studies of resistance, boycotts, and direct action

Submission Deadline: 1 August 2026

Please do not use the standard PINS online submission system.

All manuscripts and proposals for this special issue must be submitted directly to the Special Issue Editor, Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu.

Submissions and enquiries: serdardegirmencioglu@gmail.com 

Authors must ensure that submissions comply with PINS author guidelines and formatting requirements.

INVITE: ASSAf Research on scholarly journal Article Processing Charges (APCs) paid by African scholars

INVITE: ASSAf Research on scholarly journal Article Processing Charges (APCs) paid by African scholars

by | May 4, 2025 | Events and Announcements, Research and Education

Dear African Scholar

The Scholarly Publishing Programme, Academy of Science of South Africa, would like to invite you to participate in a survey that will contribute to a research project titled “Open access and APC costs: A comparative study on scholarly publishing practices in Africa”.

The study seeks to understand the perceptions and publishing practices of scholars in Africa. It focuses on open access and Article Processing Charges (APCs). APCs are fees paid by authors or their institutions to publishers for making their journal articles available open access.

The study is being conducted by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) along with partner organisations, including other science academies in Africa.

The survey is anonymous, and the data collected will be analysed and reported in aggregate form only. Copies of all publications based on the survey data will be made available to all survey respondents. Kindly indicate at the end of the survey should you wish to receive further communication as these publications become available.

If you would like an offline version of the survey (as a PDF file), or have any questions related to the survey, please email ina@assaf.org.za

The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Please see the links to the survey below:

To start the survey in English, please click here
To start the survey in French, please click here