We are pleased to invite submissions for a special edition of Educational Psychology Research and Practice that places the climate crisis, ecological wellbeing, and sustainability at its centre.
As the realities of environmental change shape the lives, learning, and futures of children and young people, educational psychologists have an important role to play in understanding, responding to, and acting within this moment. This edition aims to contribute to a wide-ranging dialogue about how our profession, and the communities we work within, can contribute meaningfully to ecological justice and sustainable futures.
A community based edition
This special edition is a mulit-platform one. EPRaP and edpsy are both involved in this edition. Creative contributions might form part of the special edition, or be placed as companion pieces published on edpsy. We want to create cross links to all the contributions as much as we can.
When you submit your idea, you might have a preference for where your contribution is published. The editorial team may also have a view based on how everything ‘hangs together’ and may want to discuss ideas with you.
Deadline for abstracts and contribution ideas
We would like to invite abstracts or contribution summaries and ideas to be sent to us by Wednesday 28th January.
Creative ways of knowing
We welcome traditional academic papers, but we are equally committed to expanding the forms through which knowledge is expressed. To that end, we actively encourage creative and practice-based contributions. These may include artwork, prose, poetry, speculative writing, personal reflections, or hybrid formats that explore the emotional, relational, and cultural dimensions of living, learning, and working during a time of climate uncertainty. You may also want to consider delivering a webinar or creating a video as a contribution. The multi-platform approach to this edition makes this possible.
Creative work can speak to aspects of ecological experience that formal research alone cannot fully capture, and we welcome submissions that challenge, provoke, or reimagine.
Community voices
This edition seeks to centre diverse voices and lived experiences. Educational psychology does not exist in isolation; it happens in classrooms, families, communities, youth movements, and wider systems. We therefore warmly invite contributions from teachers, young people, community activists, youth workers, and others engaged in sustainability or climate-related work. The perspectives of those living through climate disruption and those acting to address it are essential to this conversation.
Ideas for contributions
We welcome submissions on any theme linking educational psychology with climate, ecology, or sustainability. This could include eco-anxiety and ecological emotions; climate activism among young people; relationships with place and nature; environmental justice; systems thinking; sustainable educational practices; community responses to climate events; or reflections on the profession’s responsibilities and possibilities in a changing world. There is also scope within the special edition for reviews of books, films, podcasts, theatre productions etc.
If you have an idea but are unsure whether it fits, please get in touch, we are happy to discuss and support. Together, we hope to shape an edition that captures the creativity, urgency, and hope required to meet this ecological moment.
Edition guest editors and contact details
- Dr Dan O’Hare – email Dan (main point of contact)
- Dr Louise Edgington
- Dr Aoife McNally
EPRaP author guidelines
If you are considering a more academic contribution, EPRaP has manuscript submission guidelines. You may find it helpful to explore these guidelines in shaping your abstract or
