Rural Society Journal

Rural Society: the journal of research into rural and regional social issues

Rural Society Journal Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) is the journal of research into rural and regional social issues, published three times a year by the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University. Although designed to be accessible to a broad readership, it is a fully refereed academic journal, which is recognised by DEST for the purposes of Research Data Collection and is included in the Register of Refereed Journals.

Topics covered in Rural Society have included the rural media; small town development; rural gender issues; agricultural restructuring; heritage and tourism; youth and ageing in rural areas and many other rural related topics.

Past articles from the print version of Rural Society are available here.

The Centre for Rural Social Research (CRSR) was originally established at Charles Sturt University in 1988 as the Centre for Rural Welfare Research. The current name was adopted in 1991 to indicate broader vision and research focus.

The CRSR contributes significantly to rural Australia and is recognised as the national centre for rural and regional social research due to the various research and consultancy projects it has undertaken on behalf of government agencies and community groups. It is the first place of call for many organisations interested in rural social issues. The Centre promotes the development of better provision of human services in rural Australia.

Publishing activities at the CRSR provide a vital source of information on rural social issues, particularly its unique nationally refereed journal Rural Society and its Web site. Other publications include technical papers conference proceedings, bibliographies, an occasional paper series, a keynote paper series and commercial books. The Centre also hosts of a number of international and national conferences.

Numerous postgraduate students working in the area of rural social research are supervised by members of the Centre for Rural Social Research. Because of the social science and social welfare focus of the Centre, the majority of members are located in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and this School provides office accommodation for the Centre.

Themed Issue 2008: Water and Gender

Call for Journal Articles

Rural Society is a refereed journal published by the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University. Each year one edition is devoted to a particular theme, and the 2008 themed issue will focus on Water and Gender.

· Full papers due: 28 March 2008

· Publication date: 1 December 2008

Generic information for contributors to Rural Society can be found listed under Author Guidelines. Other inquiries may be directed to the guest editor Professor Kathleen Bowmer by emailing: kbowmer@csu.edu.au

Kathleen Bowmer is Professor of Water Policy at CSU and is a Post-Retirement Fellow with CSIRO Land and Water.

Call for Papers

Sea Changes, Tree Changes and Bush Lessons: Post-compulsory education and rural renewal
Deadline for submissions: 27th February 2009
Publishing as Rural Society Journal volume 19/3
Publishing December 2009

Rural Mental Health
Deadline for submissions: 29th March 2009
Publishing as Rural Society Journal volume 19/4
Publishing December 2009