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Autumn 2025 : Discern, the International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

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Link: https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J
 
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Submission Deadline Oct 1, 2025
Notification Due Oct 30, 2025
Final Version Due Nov 10, 2025
Categories    social design   design for social change   social innovation   social impact
 

Call For Papers

Discern, the International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, invites contributions of original research articles, reviews, and short papers. Submissions can include conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research articles, as well as interdisciplinary and diverse knowledge related to the research and practice of design for social change, sustainable innovation, and entrepreneurship, from an open, global, and multidisciplinary perspective.

Discern is dedicated to promoting open-access research that advances the field of social design. All accepted manuscripts are published online and are accessible globally, ensuring the published submissions reach a broad audience.

Key Features
• Immediate, unrestricted open-access publication
• Thorough double-anonymised peer review conducted by our international editorial board
• Indexing in major databases such as DOAJ, EBSCO, and Google Scholar
• No publication fees

Submission Process
Please note that the deadline for submissions for the autumn 2025 issue of Discern is 1st October 2025. For detailed author guidelines, kindly visit https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/about/submissions

We look forward to your valuable contributions.

Editors-in-chief
Dr Nicos Souleles, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Dr Ana Margarida Ferreira, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

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