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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🦋 Creating Your Abstract; Our Top Tips! Struggling with how to start your abstract for submission? Here are four top tips to help you get started. For full details of how to submit, visit our website, link in bio!

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Text: Creating your abstract.

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Text: Tip 1. Ensure the basis of your submission is clear. What position are you writing from? For example, you could be writing about religion from a sociological perspective. Tip 2. Have clarity. Ensure the language you use is accessible, engaging, and understandable. Don't assume the reader knows the details of the idea you're writing about.

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Text: Tip 3. Be explicit. Directly discuss your work in your abstract. Cover the main area or areas of your submission, and the key issues you are wanting to address within your paper. Tip 4. Show us who you are! Be flashy, show off how much you love the paper you've written. Be excited about your research. Write as if you were telling someone else how much they would enjoy your topic.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🌺 Submission Guidelines Wanting to submit to Curiositas? Here's a quick overview of our guidelines! If you have any questions about submissions, head to our website (link in bio) or email us at curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk

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Text: Curiositas submission guidelines

Academic papers. We recommend a word count of 3000 to 5000 words, inclusive of footnotes, references, and bibliography. The following elements should be included in this order: title page, abstract (around 250 words), 3 to 5 key words, main text, conclusion, ethical approval (if necessary), and bibliography. Academic Papers are then reviewed through a double-blind system. If your paper is accepted for publication, you will them be asked to provide any brief acknowledgements.

Academic collaborations. We recommend a word count of 2000 to 3000, inclusive of footnotes, references, and bibliography. The following elements should be included in this order: title page, abstract (around 250 words), 3 to 5 key words, main text, conclusion, ethical approval, and bibliography. Academic Papers are then reviewed through a double-blind system. If your paper is accepted for publication, you will them be asked to provide any brief acknowledgements.

Conference Reviews, Book Reviews, and Research in Progress Updates. There is no set word count for these submissions, but if it exceeds 5000 words, please contact us to discuss this. All submissions must be sent as a Microsoft Word Document, written in Times New Roman font in size 12. Text should be double spaced and written in British English. Please use the standard Chicago Author-Date Reference System and Bibliography System to prepare your manuscript.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🦋 Call for Papers. Issue 2 - Perspectives. We are excited to open our call for papers for 'Perspectives'. We have a wide range of submission options available, from Academic Papers to Book Reviews, and submission guidelines available on our website. Please get in touch via email with any questions!

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Text: Call for papers. Issue 2, Perspectives. Submission deadline, 4th January 2027. Issue publication, spring 2027.

How do you view the world? Gender, race, and culture are all anchored in history, while also subverted by queer theory, anti-colonial thought, and critical ecofeminisms. Post-humanism challenges anthropocentrism, forcing us to grapple with questions we may find uncomfortable. Understanding positionalities within this, and reflexive explorations, are submissions we are seeking for our second issue ‘Perspectives’.

We're looking for academic papers, academic collaborations, conference reviews, book reviews, research in progress for our next issue

Submission guidelines. Academic Papers: To have a maximum word count of 5000 words, including bibliography
Academic Collaborations: To have a maximum word count of 3000 words, including bibliography.
Other Submissions: We have a flexible word count, but if your submission will exceed 5000 words, including bibliography, please contact us.
For more details, please visit our website.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🪻 Curiositas and AI Use Policy. Curiositas aligns its AI Policy with that of York St John University. Please visit our website or York St John University's website for full details of the policy.

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Text: Curiositas and AI Use Policy

Text: Use of AI. Curiositas follows the guidance outlined by York St John University in its approach to use of AI. This is available in its full detail on the York St John website, with an overview available on the next image. Communications Officer, Sophie Day, and Creative Editor, Puck Suttle, never knowingly use AI in the creation of any social media posts or images created.

Text: York St John's 6 guiding principles for Use of AI. 1 stay in charge. 2 be honest and transparent. 3 check the facts. 4 think critically. 5 act fairly. 6 use with care.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🦋 Issue 2 'Perspectives'. Call for papers coming soon! Curiositas' second issue, entitled 'Perspectives' will soon be opening our Call for Papers. Keep you eyes on our social media for a full announcement coming soon.

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Text: Curiositas issue 2. Call for papers. Perspectives. Coming soon.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🌠 Applications have now closed for our Creative Editor Role! Thank you to everyone who has applied for the role. The Editorial Team are meeting soon to go through your applications, and we will be in touch within the next few weeks with all applicants.

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Text: Applications closed for out creative editor role.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🍄 Where to find us online! Keep up with all the latest Curiositas news across our different social media channels, website, and via email. 📣 Please note that our social media messages are not monitored, and the best way to get in touch with us is via email.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📚️ We are excited to share that Curiositas' first issue 'Origins: Volume 1' and 'Origins: Volume 2' are available at York St John University Library! Both print and online versions will be available at York St John's York and London campuses, as well as online on our website (link in our bio).

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

💮 Applications for our Creative Editor role are still open! If you'd like to be part of the Editorial Team of Curiositas as our Creative Editor, get in touch via email. We'd love to hear from you! @ysj_pgrschool | @ysjsu | @yorkstjohn

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Create cover designs. Shape the journal's aesthetic. Work with MA placement students. Design and format print and digital editions. Collaborate with authors of creative submissions.

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Text: Applications. Please note, this role is open to York St John PGRs only.
Please share with us a short paragraph, explaining your interest in joining the team and any relevant experience you have. Send this to us via email: curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk. Please also get in touch via email with any questions. Closing date. Saturday 1st August 2026.
This may be brought forward if there is a high volume of applications.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🎼 'Conference Report: Haunted Soundscapes Symposium, 22nd October 2025, York St John University' by Lowen Frampton-Thorburn. Sharing their time at the Haunted Soundscapes Symposium, Lowen writes in Issue 1 Volume 2 of 'Origins'. Read their reflections over on our website, link in bio!

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Text: Conference report. Haunted Soundscapes Symposium, 22nd October 2025, York St John University. By Lowen Frampton-Thorburn.

Text: The 22nd October 2025 rolled in bright and crisp, with a chill in the air as the calendar spiralled towards Halloween. Perfectly appropriate for a symposium dedicated to the haunting nature of sound, its absence, and how music can haunt film and literature, or be haunted itself by obsolete technology and places which no longer exist in the way that we remember them

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

💭 'Echoes in the System: The Origins of Hauntological Thinking in my Doctoral Research' by Samantha Goddard. 'Origins' Issue 1 Volume 2 sees Samantha share how hauntology made its way into their research. Link in our bio to read more!

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Text: Echoes in the system. The origins of hauntological thinking in my doctoral research. By Samantha Goddard.

Text: I remember it as silent. But I know that can’t be true. Back then, there would have been voices. Keys jangling. That forced kind of laughter you need to survive a day. But when I try to recall it now over the rhythmic tap of my laptop keys, all I can conjure is hush. Like the fog has swallowed the sounds. Like memory itself has been sedated

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

👁️ 'Unravelling our Anthropocentric Gaze' by Stevie Berneray. In Issue 1 Volume 2 of 'Origins', Stevie shares their reflections on how the language we use perpetuates a human-centred lens. Read more on our website, link in bio!

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Text: Unravelling our anthropocentric gaze by Stevie Berneray

Text: Language can therefore forge an anthropocentric gaze, a lens which is human-centric, governed by human supremacism, and places the human as the ‘origin of all knowing’ (Hultman and Hillevi 2010, 525). Bennett shares this linguistic barrier in trying to write the language of shared materiality by saying ‘It seems necessary and impossible to rewrite the default grammar of agency, a grammar that assigns activity to people and passivity to things.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

☕️ 'The Coffee House' by Gavin Jones. Gavin shares their experience of the writing process through their time spent in a local coffee house. Read more in 'Origins' Issue 1 Volume 2, link in our bio!

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Text: The Coffee House. By Gavin Jones

Text: Each time, on arrival in York, I headed to the same café, where I ordered a coffee and a pastry. I sat for an hour or so, reading and making notes. Some of these notes are diary-type entries, being observations of this next phase in my life. Some are thoughts on my research. The following passages are from those notebooks, an archive of a new routine

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🔥 'Ignorance is Bliss: Confronting Utopian Ideals in Fahrenheit 451 (1953)' by Zoe Keating. Zoe confronts utopian and dystopian ideas shared in the classic novel by Ray Bradbury in Issue 1 Volume 1 'Origins' of Curiositas. Read over on our website (link in bio)!

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Text: Ignorance is Bliss. Confronting utopian ideals in Fahrenheit 451 (1953). By Zoe Keating.

Text: The evolution of his journey of awareness, not only of the true intentions of the ‘utopia’ but also of his lack of security within the system, despite his assumed position of social power as a fireman. Initially, for Montag, dystopia is elsewhere; he actively rejects the realisation that they are living in a dystopia. Later, Montag sees utopia as elsewhere; he is optimistic for the future of culture and society via the Brotherhood.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🔇 'Smothered Voices and Epistemic Harm: How Wortcunners Navigate Spirituality and Legitemacy in British Academia' by Dr Clare Lesley Hughes. Clare shares their research into the experiences of wortcunners in British academia in Issue 1 Volume 1 'Origins' of Curiositas. Read today over on our website

Text: Through their testimonies, I identified various entangled epistemic harms, including testimonial smothering, testimonial betrayal, contributory injustice, and dynamic hermeneutical injustice where wortcunners described being cautioned against “coming out” as witches, observed colleagues belittled or bullied for their spiritual plant practices, and fearing professional retribution or reputational damage

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🖋️ Join the Editorial Team! We're looking for our next Creative Editor to join us at Curiositas. Interested in knowing more? Swipe to find out about the role. ➡️ This role is open to York St John PGRs only.

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Text: Join our editorial team as creative editor.

How to apply.
Please note, this role is open to York St John PGRs only. Please share with us a short paragraph explaining your interest in joining the team and any relevant experience you have. Send this via email: curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk.
Closing date.
Saturday 1st August 2026. This may be brought forward if there is a high volume of applications.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🌙 'Maiden, Mother Crone: Reflections on the symbol of the Triple Moon within the changing 'feminine'' by Niamh Drain. Niamh explores their current research in Issue 1 Volume 1 'Origins' of Curiositas. Read today over on our website (link in bio)!#

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Text: Maiden, Mother Crone: Reflections on the symbol of the Triple Moon within the changing 'feminine'. By Niamh Drain.

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Text: This study is a combination of autoethnographic & secondary research: through uncovering the established literature surrounding the MMC and my personal voice as a witch, it questions if the MMC dynamic necessarily represents the trajectory of the modern 'woman's' life?

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🎊 Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday at our in-person launch event! It was lovely to see so many people at the School of Humanities PGR Flagship Event yesterday, and to share with you our journey of launching Curiositas.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🎉 'Issue One: Origins' Available Now! Our first issue is now available over on our website. The Editorial Team would like to thank everyone who contributed to 'Origins' at every step of the way; from conception to final publication.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📆 One Week Until Publication! Just 7 more days until Issue 1: Origins is published. We can't wait to share our first issue with you at our in-person and online launch events (more details on our previous posts). Keep your eye on our website next Wednesday 6th May for 'Origins'!

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

💻️ Curiositas' Online Launch Event Join us online on Friday 8th May where members of our Editorial Team will be sharing the journey of the launch of our first issue, and we would love for you to come along. Please email us for the link to join. This event is for Humanities PGRs at York St John only

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Text: Online Launch Event. Join us online to celebrate the launch of Issue 1: Origins. Friday 8th May. 4pm to 5pm. Via Teams.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🥂 We are excited to share that we will be celebrating the launch of our first issue 'Origins' at the Humanities PGR Flagship Event! Our Editorial Team will be sharing the journey of Curiositas so far. We look forward to welcoming you! This event of for Humanities PGRs at York St John only

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

📅 Save the Date! We are excited to share that 'Issue 1: Origins' will be published in physical print and online, over on our blog. Details of our launch at York St John's Humanities PGR Event will be coming soon.

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Text: Save the Date. Issue 1: Origins. curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

📚️ Join us on campus for the Publishing your Research as a PGR event! As part of a full day event hosted by PGR School, Curiositas are excited to share the journey of setting up our humanities journal. To book your free place, please email curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk for the booking link

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

👋Meet the Editorial Team Say hello to the Curiositas Editorial Team! Made up of PGRs at York St John University, everyone brings their own experience and unique perspectives to the team. Interested in knowing more about Curiositas? Head to our website, link in bio!

Text: Clare Lesley-Hughes. Editor-in-Chief.

Clare provides overall
leadership and vision for
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define the journal’s
direction, scope, and
themes, oversees the editorial process from submission to publication, coordinates and supports the editorial team and ensures deadlines are met. She also makes final decisions on content, layout, and production, represents the journal publicly and acts as a point of contact for the university or external partners.

Text: Sophie Cameron. Deputy Editor.

Sophie C. supports the
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managing correspondence
with authors during the submission and revision stages, assisting and guiding editorial discussions, resolving minor disputes or queries, and deputising for the Editor in Chief when needed.

Text: Henry Gillson-Gant. Administrative Coordinator.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

✒️ We are pleased to share that Curiositas now has ISSN codes for both our online and print publications. Our ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) ensures we are recognisable and all publications can be identified.

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Text: We have received our ISSN codes. ISSN 2978-5022 (Online). ISSN 2979-0840 (Print).

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📆 Save the date! As part of International Women's Week, we are collaborating with Cultivate, who are based at the Centre for Women's Studies at University of York, to run a free creative workshop! All details in the images below! Any questions? Email us at curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk

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Text: Entangling Stories and Bodies Across York. Wednesday 4th March. Part of International Women's Week 2026, as part of a programme of events organised by York International Women's Week

Text: Where? 10am to 4pm: Future You, Holgate, York St John University, YO317EX and Room G07, Heslington Hall, University of York, YO105DD. 6pm to 9pm: SPARK, Piccadilly, YO19BP.
What? We are hosting FREE creative drop-in events, and invite people to drop by and share stories from their own lives, or the loves of those close to them. You are invited to share these memories, reflections, or wishes on a simple body-shaped template in a way which suits you.

Text: As part of York International Women's Week, which is from 1st to 8th March, Curiositas, York St John University's Humanities Postgraduate Journal, is collaborating with Cultivate, a journal from the Centre for Women's Studies at University of York. Join us at both campuses during the day, where everyone is welcome to take part, to share the diversity of stories which centre women's lives. In the evening, at SPARK, we will be 'entangling; our stories as an act of reflection and celebration.

Text: for more information, please email curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk. For the full programme of events organised by York International Women's Week, please visit their website yorkwomen.org.uk

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

✉️ All of us at Curiositas Journal would like to thank everyone for their submissions to our first issue 'Origins' that is due for publication in May 2026. The editorial team are working hard in the peer review process and cannot wait to share the first issue later this year!

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

🕰️ One week left! With only 7 more days to go until our submission deadline for our first issue entitled 'Origins', due out May 2026, we would love to hear from you! If you have any questions, please email curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk. Head to our website for full submission details, link in bio!

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

❄️ The Curiositas Team hope that everyone enjoys their winter break. We will still be replying to emails and messages over the break, but replies may take longer than usual. If you would like to get in touch with any enquiries, please email curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk or visit our website!

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

📣 One month to go! We are a month away from our submissions deadline for our first issue 'Origins'! If you are interested in sending us a submission, or have any questions, please get in touch with us via email at curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk or visit our website blog.yorksj.ac.uk/curiositas.

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Text: Call for contributions. One month remaining. curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🔎We're Seeking Peer Reviewers🔍 Ahead of the launch of our first issue, we're seeking people who are interested in peer reviewing articles! Full training will be provided, with out next training day on the 3rd December via Teams. Please email us at curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk for details.

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Text: We are seeking peer reviewers.

Text: We are excited to announce we are inviting PGRs to join our team of Peer Reviewers. Being a Peer Reviewer allows you to gain insight into the publishing process, develop reviewing skills, and contribute to our postgraduate research community. Full training will be provided, so no experience is necessary. We just need your enthusiasm for critically and constructively engaging with the work of your peers within the School of Humanities!

Text: If you are interested in joining, please email a short paragraph about yourself, your research interests, and what you hope to gain from being a Peer Reviewer to curiositasjounral@yorksj.ac.uk. Our next training day is 3rd December. The session will be online from 1pm to 2:30pm.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

🎉The Editorial Team would like to congratulate everyone who graduated from York St John University this week! All your hard work has paid off, it is now time to share your gifts and skills with the world.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

📣We are seeking 'Research in Progress' contributions! Ahead of the launch of our first issue, entitled 'Origins', in May 2026, we are seeking submissions of yet to be complete research. If you're a Postgraduate Researcher at York St John University, we would love to hear from you!

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In the centre of the image, there is an illustration of a typewriter. Above it, the text reads: Call for contributions, research in progress. Below is the email address for the journal: curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk

Text: What is research in progress?

Research in progress submissions allow post graduate researchers to share the earlier stages of their projects, or updates on research, that are not yet complete. They are a great way to open up dialogue, share early reflections, find feedback, and seek potential collaborators. We do not have a set word count for research in progress submissions.

Text: Submissions process.

Find our full submissions guide on our website: blog.yorksj.ac.uk/curiositasjournal.

If you think your submission will exceed 5000 words, please email us in advance to let us know at: curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk.

Referencing must be done in Chicago Author-Date style. Submissions must be sent by 1st January 2026 and must be sent from a York St John University email address as, at this time, we are only accepting submissions from York St John students.

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Curiositas Journal @curiositasjournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📣Curiositas is calling for papers! Our first issue, Origins, is seeking your submissions for our May 2026 publication. If you have any questions, please visit our website (link in bio) for full submission guidance or get in touch via email curiositasjournal@yorkaj.ac.uk.

Alt text: Curiositas call for papers. Issue 1, Origins. Submission deadline, 1st January 2026. Issue publication, May 2026.

curiositasjournal@yorksj.ac.uk

Alt text: we're seeking the following submissions for our first issue.

Academic papers, to be peer reviewed, presenting original research.
Academic collaborations, to be peer reviewed, for co-authored, multidisciplinary research.
Conference reviews which offer critical reflections on key themes.
Book reviews of recent publications.
Research in progress for PGRs to share updates in the early stages of their projects.

Alt text: submission guidelines.

Academic papers, we request a word count between 3000 and 5000 words. Bibliographies will be excluded from this word count.
Academic collaborations, we request a word count of between 2000 and 3000 words. Bibliographies will be excluded from this word count.
All other submissions, we have a flexible word count for these, but if you feel your word count will exceed 5000 words, please get in contact.

Alt text: submission guidelines.

We request submissions are sent as Microsoft Word documents, using Times New Roman font in size 12 with double-lined spacing. We also request all referencing is done in Chicago Author-Date style. For full details, please visit blog.yorksj.ac.uk/curiositasjournal to view our submission guidance document. Please email all manuscripts to curiositasjournal@yorksj.sc.uk

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