Working paper series and publications

The purpose of the Community Animation and Social Innovation Centre, CASIC, Working Paper series is to create a space for new thinking on collaborative, interdisciplinary and co-produced research to emerge and take shape. It intends to be a friendly, open space to disseminate, circulate and discuss continuing research in the field of Community Animation, Creative Methods and Social Innovation across social and professional borderlines. The aim is to encourage conversation and debate about new work, stimulating a lively exchange of ideas within the field as well as enhancing networking and potential cooperation among researchers, thinkers and practitioners from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Working Papers are invited on a number of themes which might include: Cultural Animation, drama and artistic work as knowledge-making

• How research methods evolve and are shaped by social worlds
• Social policy, community activism and engagement projects and experiments
• Contemporary social change, anxieties and problems: energy and food shortage, ageing, exclusion, violence and crime.  
• Analysing participation, equality, dignity within historical context
• Mapping theoretical contributions to tackling ‘real world’ problems or situations

Papers can be written in a variety of ways, for example as ‘short communications’ (reports or updates from particular events, for example), as research papers, as empirical accounts or artistic/alternative forms such as short stories, audio visual and musical media or poems.

Submitted papers need not be confined to topics within a specific field of academic research and may be inter-disciplinary. Empirical, theoretical as well as practitioner and policy-oriented contributions are welcome. Submitted papers are subject to a screening process to ensure the general quality of the paper. There will be a refereeing process within CASIC which is designed to provide helpful feedback and to foster discussion among members of the Centre. It is hoped that this system will encourage suggestions for revision and development before publication on the website. We are especially keen to reach career-young researchers and independent scholars who are interested in feedback and discussion previous to a possible publication in a scholarly journal.

Copyright and citation: While CASIC Working Papers are the property of the Centre and should not be reproduced in any other format, publication as a CASIC working paper does not preclude revision or development for publication in another forum. The Working Papers will be freely available on the website to members of the Centre as well as visitors but should not be re-sold. When cited elsewhere for the purposes of research, CASIC Working Papers should be acknowledged.

Accepted file formats for text contributions are .pdf and .doc (or .docx), in English. Media contributions are welcome in standards media formats such as WAV, AIFF, MOV, AVI.

Word-limit: Short communications – in the range of 2500-5000 words, Research Papers – 8000 words, Empirical papers - 10,000 words (to allow for case study or data material). No upper limit for artistic/poetic publications or any other creative media.

Please also indicate: your affiliation and contact details, and a short biography.

Kelemen, M.; Hamilton, L. (2019), "Creative processes of impact making: Advancing an American Pragmatist methodology", Qualitative Research in Organization and Management, Vol.14 (3), 241-259.

Millward, H.; Kelemen, M.; Mangan, A. (2019), "Co-producing Community and Individual Change through Theatrical Interventions", Organizational Aethetics, Vol.8(1), 34-50.

Goulding, C.; Kelemen, M.; Kiyomiya, T. (2018), "Community based response to the Japanese tsunami: A bottom-up approach", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.268(3), 887-903.

Kelemen, M.; Surman, E.; Dikomitis, L. (2018), "Cultural animation in health research: An innovative methodology for patient and public involvement and engagement", Health Expectations, Vol.21, 805-813.

Lam, B.; Phillips, M.; Kelemen, M.; Zamenopoulos, T.; Moffat, S.; De Sousa, S. (2018), "Design and creative methods as a practice of liminality in community-academic research projects", The design Journal, Vol.21(4), 605-624.\Lin, Y.; Kelemen, M.; Tresidder, R. (2018), "Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan", Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol.26 (10), 1766-1783.\

Surman, E.; Kelemen, M., Millward, H.; Moffat, S. (2018), "Food, ethics and community: Using Cultural Animation to develop a food vision for North Staffordshire", Journal of Consumer Ethics, Vol.2(2), 17-25.

Vo, L.; Kelemen, M. (2017), "Collaborating across the researcher-practitioner divide: introducing John Dewey's democratic experimentalism", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol.30(6), 858-871.

Mangan, A.; Kelemen, M.; Moffat, S. (2016), "Animating the classroom: Pedagogical responses to internationalisation", Management Learning, Vol.47 (3), 285-304