Brief Encounters journal is seeking applications to join its Editorial Board for Issue 9, which is due out in summer 2025.

Brief Encounters is the student led journal for CHASE DTP and features short academic and creative works and reviews. The journal is open access and peer reviewed and features contributions from across the CHASE researcher community. All board roles are open for applications, as follows:

Senior Editor – overall responsibility for the journal; leading the Editorial Board to ensure timely publication of the forthcoming issue; liaising with the journal steering committee.

Web and layout Officer – management of the journal website and submission system; liaising with the external Web Developer; leading on applying layout standards to all submissions to be published.

Comms Officer – managing the journal’s social media channels; maximising the reach of the journal to academic and non-academic audiences.

Submissions Editor – reviewing all submissions to the journal; allocating submissions to the correct Section Editor; sourcing peer reviewers for submissions.

Section Editors (Articles, Reviews, Creative Encounters), receiving all reviews, creative submissions, and creative encounters submitted to the journal; maintaining communication with authors; ensuring prompt peer review of reviews.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities but gives a flavour of what each role entails. Resources are provided to support you in carrying out these roles effectively.

Please apply for your preferred role(s) by sending a statement of interest to training@chase.ac.uk by Monday 29 July. Please note any prior, relevant experience you have and tell us what interests you about the role(s) you are interested in.

Brief Encounters

An open-access peer-reviewed postgraduate journal, which showcases the interdisciplinary research of CHASE funded and affiliated scholars, staff, and non-HEI partners. 

Brief Encounters is an online peer-reviewed postgraduate journal, which was founded in April 2016 with the support of the CHASE Management Board. In its first issue, and beyond, the journal will showcase research undertaken by CHASE funded and affiliated individuals, which includes students and staff from all 9 institutions within the consortium, as well as non-HEI partner members. As an open-access journal, Brief Encounters supports the dissemination of knowledge to a global readership, with the intent that the research it publishes encourages the exchange of ideas outside of traditional academic circles. Taking inspiration from CHASE’s biannual conference ‘Encounters’, and the 1945 film, A Brief Encounter, the journal hopes to inspire relationships of the intellectual (as opposed to the amorous) kind between individuals separated by geographical distances. In these brief but still meaningful academic encounters, the journal aims to start conversations which will lead to unexpected journeys.

Unlike many other academic journals, Brief Encounters will be comprised of short but academically rigorous pieces. The journal will provide Masters and PhD students from CHASE institutions, as well as non-HEI CHASE affiliated partners, with the opportunity to publish in an alternative format to the traditional 7-8,000 word articles often required by academic journals. It is a space to publish work conducted for previous studies, conference papers, research that does not have a place in a doctoral thesis, or an inspired scribble in a notebook that deserves fuller exploration, to give only a few examples. Brief Encounters consequently aims to preserve and facilitate the discussion of work that would otherwise be limited to single discipline conferences, conversations within institutions, or even a brief exchange on a train platform.