Programmes: Publication Series

SSRC Sponsored publications

The SSRC sponsors publications in the social sciences, especially with an interdisciplinary focus. We will support basic production costs such as production of camera-ready copy or other subvention which the publisher may require to make the monograph commercially viable. The emphasis is upon high quality monographs where it’s recognised that subvention is necessary because the market is small. Any publications accepted will be subjected to a rigorous external refereeing process and it would be expected that any proposed publishers would be internationally recognised publishers of academic monographs.

Proposals should be sent to the Board, care of the Secretary of the SSRC, St. Declan's, at any time during the year. They should include the following details:

1. the general point of the text: its raison d'etre

2. its chief advantages: its originality, its particular contributions to its subject

3. its overall structure and chapter contents

4. the background of the work: the research from which it has emanated

5. the relation of this text to others in the field: the gaps it fills

6. its market: what sort of groups, professional or otherwise, are likely to be interested in it; whether it could be used in connection with specified courses in third-level institutions

7. the academic biographies of the author(s)

8. Authors/editors should also indicate whether they have sent their proposal to any other publisher

9. They should furnish the names of four to five suitably qualified persons among whom the Board may choose to apply as referees for the text.

Publications in this series include: Sinisa Malesevic and Iain MacKenzie, Ideology after Poststructuralism (2001), Sinisa Malesevic and Mark Haugaard, Making Sense of Collectivity (2002) and Ricca Edmondson & Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz’s Valuing older people: A humanist approach to ageing (2009) published by The Policy Press.

New Publication Series

We are pleased to announce a  new SSRC series, 'Rethinking Irish Democracy'. The first publication in the series, Uninhabited Ireland: Tara, the M3 and Public Spaces in Galway (Arlen House, 2007), with contributions from Ulf Strohmayer and Conor Newman, is now available.

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