About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The aim of Current Issues in Work-Integrated Learning (CIWIL) is to encourage and contribute to innovative high-quality, theoretically sound, and evidence-based research focusing on the relationship between work and learning. The journal provides a unique arena for co-creating, enhancing and sharing current issues in work-integrated learning (WIL) and related topics.

For this journal, WIL is formulated as a multidisciplinary research field, primarily connected to social sciences and humanities. The field is defined by issues focusing on the relationship between work and learning. The concept of work also includes forms other than conventional paid work. The concept of learning encompasses processes of knowledge and competence development in various social contexts, not only focusing on students but also including various forms of learning within and between professions in working life. Study objects can include preconditions, organisation, implementation, content, forms and implications of integrating work and learning.

The journal welcomes conceptual contributions that propose new relationships and develop hypotheses among elements related to the integration of work and learning, in the form of: 

  • empirical research based on quantitative and qualitative research methods;
  • literature reviews that critically analyse previous related findings;
  • case studies exploring interpretations, actions and interventions related in various social contexts. 

Research shall critically examine issues related to working and learning, to make them both relevant in the context of global challenges related to sustainability and technological advances.

CIWIL focuses primarily on, but is not limited to, the following thematic areas:

  • Student learning in higher education
  • Learning in professional working life
  • Transition, management, and digitalisation
  • Management, learning and organisational change
  • Co-creative societal development

Intended Readership

The intended readership for CIWIL is researchers, students and practitioners.

Peer Review Process

The overall publishing responsibility rests with the journal's editor-in-chief, supported by the editorial board. 

Selected reviewers consist of senior researchers who come from a variety of organisations, careers, and backgrounds from around the world. The international composition of reviewers also safeguards the diversity of perspectives with expertise in the field of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) valued by CIWIL.

CIWIL values an ethical perspective, and all invitations to review manuscripts are kept confidential. Reviewers must not share their review or information about the review process with anyone without the agreement of the editors and authors involved, even after publication.

All  submissions undergo a rigorous peer-review process in accordance with established international standards.  A double-blind anonymous peer review procedure is conducted before acceptance/rejection of manuscripts, ensuring that authors and reviewers are anonymous throughout the review process.

A decision, after an initial review by the journal's editor, whether the manuscript will be sent on to peer review, is normally made within two weeks of submission. In this initial review  the submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism by using the plagiarism checking service tool Similarity Check as well as checked weather they are within the scope of the CIWIL journal.  Manuscripts considered suitable for further external peer-review are then sent to two or more reviewers. The reviewers are tasked with highlighting the manuscript's general and specific merits and shortcomings a long with critical, constructive, and respectful feedback to authors. Reviews are completed with evidence of reflective engagement with the manuscript and add value to the overall knowledge presented in the manuscript.

Based on the outcome of the reviewers, the editorial committee compiles a recommendation to a) accept the manuscript for publication b) ask the author to revise the manuscript or c) reject the manuscript. The review process is expected to take 6 to 8 weeks but may vary.

Duplicate publication, also called "redundant publication" or "dual publication", is not permitted. This refers to the publication of the same article in more than one journal or to the publication of a document that is substantially similar to one already published without reference to the original publication. CIWIL only accepts manuscripts that not have previously been published.

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