Scope of the Journal

JSP publishes interdisciplinary research on society, development, policy, culture, institutions, and human progress. The journal understands “progress” not as a simple idea of economic growth, but as a contested social process involving justice, equity, sustainability, participation, education, wellbeing, rights, technology, environment, and cultural transformation.

The journal welcomes manuscripts from, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Society, social change, inequality, and social justice
    • Development studies, inclusive growth, poverty, labour, migration, and livelihoods
    • Education, higher education, curriculum, language, literacy, and lifelong learning
    • Governance, public policy, law, rights, citizenship, and institutional reform
    • Gender, family, youth, ageing, disability, and intersectional studies
    • Media, communication, digital society, technology, AI, and public culture
    • Environment, sustainability, climate justice, urbanisation, and community resilience
    • Business, entrepreneurship, work, organisational culture, and society
    • Public health, wellbeing, community studies, and social determinants of health
    • Culture, religion, ethics, identity, memory, and everyday life
    • Bangladesh, South Asia, Global South studies, and comparative global perspectives

JSP welcomes qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, theoretical, historical, policy-oriented, and practice-based research. Submissions should make a clear contribution to knowledge and should be written for an interdisciplinary readership.

What JSP does not normally publish

  • Manuscripts outside the journal’s social, cultural, policy, education, development, or public-life remit.
  • Purely descriptive essays without a clear research question, argument, method, evidence, or scholarly contribution.
  • Previously published work or manuscripts under consideration by another journal.
  • Conference papers submitted without substantial revision, expansion, and proper acknowledgement of their earlier presentation.
  • Manuscripts with unverified references, fabricated data, plagiarism, undisclosed AI-generated content, or serious ethical concerns.

Opinion pieces that do not meet the journal’s scholarly standards, unless invited as editorial commentary