Visual Studies

Visual Studies is a major international peer-reviewed journal published on behalf of the International Visual Sociology Association. The journal publishes visually-oriented articles across a range of disciplines, and represents a long-standing commitment to empirical visual research, studies of visual and material culture, the development of visual research methods and the exploration of visual means of communication about social and cultural worlds. Visual Studies is a key resource for all disciplines that engage with images, society and culture, and sets the standard for the scholarly use of visual material.

The multidisciplinary character of the journal is reflected in its attention to visually-based research in sociology, anthropology, cultural and media studies, documentary film and photography, information technology, education, communication studies as well as other fields concerned with image-based study.

The aims of Visual Studies are to:

• Provide an international forum for the development of visual research.

• Promote acceptance and understanding of a wide range of methods, approaches and paradigms that constitute image-based research.

• Reduce the disparity in emphasis between visual and written studies in the social sciences.

• Promote an interest in developing visual research methodology in all its various forms.

• Encourage research that employs a mixture of visual methods and analytical approaches within one study.

• Critically reflect and contribute to the dialogue surrounding ‘the visual’ across the social sciences and humanities.

• Provide an arena for in-depth exploration of various approaches, particular methods, themes and visual phenomena.

Most articles published in the journal are accompanied by appropriate visual material, and the journal encourages visually-led submissions.

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Computer-Aided Design and Applications (CAD&A) is a world-leading journal in the field of CAD, publishing papers in both traditional areas as well as in new and emerging fields of the discipline, including theoretical papers but with special focus on the applied.

Examples of topics published in CAD&A include, but are not limited to, the following:

 - artificial intelligence   - bio-engineering          - CAD education          - CAD hardware          - CAD in fashion   - CAD in the arts and creative media          - CAD in garment, shoe and jewellery design        - collaborative, conceptual and feature based design          - databases          - data exchange          - design computing          - finite element methods          - human factors          - knowledge-based engineering        - numerical control       - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)          - reverse engineering     - solid and heterogeneous modelling          - standards     - Web CAD           - virtual reality

The journal welcomes technical papers on new technologies and their implications; application papers on applications of existing techniques; survey papers on the state-of-the art in a particular sub-domain; review papers on current events/developments; and product demonstrations to keep readers up to date on important new products.

Proposals for special issues in cutting-edge areas of Computer-Aided Design are encouraged, and should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief.

All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind.

Queries regarding submissions can be made by contacting the Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final.

For information on how to submit your article, please visit the CAD Solutions website.