Inspiring cross-disciplinary conversations, introducing Cambridge Forum
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Inspiring cross-disciplinary conversations, introducing Cambridge Forum
Our new flagship open access journal series for the humanities and social sciences
As part of our commitment to open access within the humanities and social sciences, we have launched our new journal series, Cambridge Forum. The series will support cross-disciplinary conversations on urgent issues with profound relevance to societies globally.
The series will play a pivotal role in a rapidly developing research landscape. Each Cambridge Forum journal will focus on a central topic, publishing curated themed issues that bring together peer reviewed research, offering scholars and readers a platform that is responsive to world events.
Sally Hoffmann, the series’ Cambridge Publisher, explains, "We want to support increased dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and engage a broad audience with the latest thinking on some of the key challenges facing societies today. Journals in the Cambridge Forum series will foster diversity of thought, experience and expertise, providing insight into complex topics and ultimately informing global policy and decision-making.”
"Journals in the Cambridge Forum series will foster diversity
of thought, experience, and expertise"
Publishing the journals’ research open access means equitable, unrestricted access to its content, encouraging an international readership. Easy-to-understand, jargon-less papers will support a global audience beyond subject area specialists and policymakers.
The first two journals in the series focus on Artificial Intelligence; Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance will be edited by Rumman Chowdhury, Megan Ma, and Martin Ebers. The journal will provide the first venue for considering the full spectrum of mechanisms for the oversight and regulation of AI from law, rules and regulation through to ethical behaviour and responsible practice.
"We're living in exciting times with the rise of
generative AI and broad-spectrum AI models"
Rumman Chowdhury, co-Editor-In-Chief of Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance, said, “We're living in exciting times with the rise of generative AI and broad-spectrum AI models. We believe it's crucial to talk about the role of governance: balancing legal and regulatory landscapes, guardrails and ethics in light of ever-advancing technologies.”
Tobias Blanke and Georgina Born are co-Editors-In-Chief of Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society, the first international journal to integrate critical social and cultural studies of AI with digital social science and humanities investigations using AI to analyse social and cultural data.
Tobias Blanke commented, “Our journal addresses a fundamental issue of our times: how to understand and navigate our intertwining relationship with sophisticated machine systems. Our aim is to identify ways to harness their positive impact while minimising their negative effect.”
Ella Colvin, Director of Publishing, Journals, said: “As a leading publisher in the humanities and social sciences, we have a strong wish to see the research we publish continue to make its way into public debate and policy discussions. Cambridge Forum journals – especially given their cross-disciplinary and accessible natures – will help us towards this goal. Cambridge is committed to supporting open access for our entire list, including our humanities and social sciences journals which comprise 65% of our journals programme.”
Learn more about the Cambridge Forum journals on Cambridge Core.
Interested academics and members of the public are encouraged to submit their ideas for journal themes.
