The importance of China on the global economic stage cannot be ignored, and its unique legal and tax systems are of great inters to international scholars and business people alike. China’s tax system is acquiring western features while remaining entrenched in its rich cultural and historical roots. This makes for interesting study, analysis and comparison as its laws are becoming more accessible. 
The Journal of Chinese Tax & Policy focuses on the policy, administrative and compliance aspects of the Chinese tax system. It also welcomes comparative studies between China and other countries. The Journal is an internationally peerreviewed scholarly publication.

A new online, open access social work and social policy journal published by Social Work and Policy Studies, University of Sydney through the University of Sydney Library. More details are forthcoming. Please register to be informed when submissions are open or a new issue is published.

 

Social Work and Policy Studies: Social Justice, Practice and Theory aims to provide a platform for those advancing knowledge and debate on any aspect of social justice-informed social work, social policy, practice or theory.

With a goal of publishing twice yearly, the journal welcomes submissions that explore questions of: social injustice; inequity; systemic and/or individual oppression; the power dynamics of social relations such as race, class, gender, disability, sexuality, Indigeneity, age, region, political economy; questions engaging with intersectionality and multiple oppressions; and various forms of resistance, social change, social policy and social justice initiatives.  

AJE (ISSN 1839-843X) is the free peer-reviewed journal of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture – Australia and New Zealand (ASLEC – ANZ). Its members seek to promote the creation, appreciation, understanding, and teaching of the human sciences from ecological perspectives; its members seek also to share their knowledge for the benefit of all interested in research, reading, writing, media, teaching, and so on, in AJE's engagement with place, ecology and the environment.

JASAL (ISSN 1833-6027) is a fully peer-reviewed journal of scholarship on Australian Literature, published by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). We publish one or two general issues each year and one or more guest-edited special issues on particular themes, along with the annual guest-edited conference issue. JASAL welcomes essays that consider Australian literature in all its forms (fictional, critical, print, filmic, and so on) and in terms of its socio-political and cultural contexts. We encourage readers to become ASAL members and to visit the ASAL website for information about conferences and other activities. The Managing Editors of JASAL are Brigitta Olubas and Tony Simoes da Silva.

Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies is a fully-refereed journal of Victorian Studies published by the Australasian Victorian Studies Association.

The 24^th AHSN Conference will take place 2-4 February 2018 at the Centre for Tourism and Regional Opportunities, Central Queensland University, Cairns Campus, Cairns, Australia.

“Humour: How Does it Travel?” is the conference theme, recognising that humour moves between venues, culture, users and purposes, all of which may affect it in one way or another. For information on transport and accommodation and early conference enquiries, visit our Events page on the AHSN webpages at University of Sydney. More detailed information on the Call for Proposals and the AHSN review process is also located there.

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Submitting a Proposal

This is the conference proposal and review website. To submit your proposal for a paper, you must first register as a ‘User’ on this website. To create your personal account, please REGISTER, selecting ‘Author’ as your role. You may then ‘Log in’ and follow the prompts on ‘User Home’ for you as an Author to ‘Make New Submission’ and upload your Proposal.

For all other information on the AHSN and its activities, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/humourstudies/

Abstracts and proceedings from previous year’s conferences are archived at the link below.

The Australian Religion Studies Review is now called Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. Please visit the website of JASR for current research from the leading peer-reviewed journal of the Pacific region dealing with all aspects of the academic study of religion. 

To view the archives of the ARS Review from 1988–2004, please click the link in the top navigation bar, or go here. You do not need to register to view the archives.

Digital Research and Publishing: A Graduate Student Journal in Digital Cultures publishes graduate student research examining the relationship between new technologies and practices of research and publishing. It is an interdisciplinary journal that draws on a number of fields within the humanities and social sciences. Its concern is critically examining and understanding how new media shape and relate to historical processes of textuality, especially in relation to the everyday lives of those living today in an apparently globalised world defined, in part, by the power of new technologies.

Health Education in Practice: Journal of Research for Professional Learning (HEPJ) (ISSN: 2209-3974) is a new electronic journal is dedicated to research and evaluation related to health education in practice. As an open access publication, the journal is designed to encourage dialogues with national and international communities of practice. The inaugural issue (Vol 1, No 1) is now available on the journal website. 

International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives (IEJ:CP) is an international, peer-reviewed journal for advancing academic quality and rigor in comparative and international education research. It is the official journal of the Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES formerly ANZCIES). IEJ:CP seeks to promote scholarly discussion of the relationships among educational policy and practice, theory, and cross-disciplinary global studies.

The LCTJ is an online-only, open access publication.

The LCTJ will publish high quality papers presenting theoretical and methodological developments in Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). These include but are not limited to new theoretical outlines, translation devices and methodological means of enacting LCT in research. The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for such LCT articles and enable them to be freely available to a wide audience.

Organizations play a critical role in any economy, undertaking numerous activities from production, to solving problems and generating new ideas and innovations. The Organizational Economics Workshop, held at The University of Sydney and jointly organised by The University of Sydney and The Australian National University, examines a broad range of economic issues relating to organizations, including: incentive contracts with external and internal parties and managerial remuneration; the organization of production, the use of labour and wage structures; the design of hierarchies; the allocation of decision making protocols within organizations; and the optimal allocation of ownership and alternative ownership structures. The Workshop started in 2007. The Workshop is a place for the presentation of both theoretical and empirical research into organizations.

The Organizational Economics Proceedings is a refereed journal of papers presented at the Workshop. The journal aims to be a forum the quick dissemination of new insights into the internal workings of organizations. Consequently, the Organizational Economics Proceedings also welcomes submissions of original research into organizations from researchers throughout the year. The journal does not require authors to forgo their copyright, so articles published in the Organizational Economics Proceedings can also be submitted and published in other journals.