Special issue JPPID about Quality of Life: call for submissions

The Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities (JPPID) will publish a special issue on the theme Quality of life: Exploring new grounds in 2016. Guest Editors are Alice Schippers, Geert Van Hove, Ivan Brown, and Ralph Kober.

We encourage all colleagues interested in Quality of Life research to consider contributing. We are looking for conceptual papers as well as papers on the application of Quality of Life around the world (internationalperspectives).

Scholars interested in submitting a paper to this special issue should provide an abstract (up to 250 words), which includes: suggested title, the major thrust of the proposed article, and a one-page curriculum vitae.

Abstracts should be sent by email to alice.schippers@tiscali.nl using the subject "Abstract special issue QOL – JPPID" by May, 31, 2015.

Important dates

May 31, 2015: submission of a 250 words abstract and a one-page CV
October 31, 2015: final versions of selected papers due to editors
Feb 1, 2016: Decisions and revisions on submissions sent to authors
April 1, 2016: Final, revised papers due

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