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

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