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