Configurações Journal
Issue theme: Violence and Crime.
Coordinators: Sílvia Gomes (CICS.NOVA – Pólo UMinho, UICCC.ISMAI), Vera Duarte (CICS.NOVA – Pólo UMinho, UICCC.ISMAI) e Maria João Leote de Carvalho (CICS.NOVA).

Violence, in its various forms and expressions, is a structural component of the social dynamics. Transversal to all social groups, the phenomenon of violence in the form of crime generate social concern and alarm us for impacts on social order and cohesion. Present in several dimensions of social life, violence and crime are complex, polysemous social problems that include different configurations and produce dynamic social realities of difficult access. Its analysis requires the combination of individual and social factors, as well as economic and political, cultural and others that, in turn, also translate into questioning their conceptual borders.
The papers may be from any the field of the social sciences, may refer to empirical investigation and must rely on a robust theoretical reflection. Papers must be sent to cics@ics.uminho.pt until the 15th of August, 2015, and shall be in compliance with the journal’s norms.

Post-doctoral Fellowshipsare available for PhD holders, preferentially with less than six years post-doctoral experience. Fellowships have a maximum duration of six years, upon mid-term approval and budget availability.

Applicants to post-doctoral fellowships are required to:

· Have completed their PhD at time of application;
· Be an author on an original, peer-review paper (published or accepted for publication by the application deadline), or an equivalent indicator of scientific output;
· Have at least one scientific output indicator for every three years post-PhD;
· Not have held any prior FCT-funded post-doctoral fellowship. As an exception, this requirement does not apply to the 2105 call: applicants with previous FCT-funded fellowships may apply for 3-year post-doctoral fellowship.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Social Sciences CICS.NOVA (www.cics.nova.fcsh.unl.pt) invites researchers holding a PhD degree to submit an application, within the following research areas:

- Social Inequality and Public Action
- Citizenship, Work and Technology
- Environmental Change, Territory and Development
- Socio-Spatial Modelling and Planning
- Population Dynamics and Health

The applications, being CICS.NOVA the host institution, must be submitted until 30 April 2015, to the email address cicsnova@fcsh.unl.pt, with the subject ‘FCT Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2015’. The applications must contain:

- Reference to the research area (from the above mentioned),
- CV (curriculum vitae),
- Title of the project,
- Summary of the work program (up to 150 words),
- State of the art (up to 500 words),
- Objectives to achieve (up to 300 words),
- References (up to 20)
- Indication of the scientific domain – (Fields of Science (FOS) defined in the Manual Frascati)

Selected applicants could submit their application to FCT until 5p.m. 11 May, having CICS.NOVA as the host institution.
We are available to answer any questions through the email address cicsnova@fcsh.unl.pt
Information about the FCT call is available here

Application Guide only in Portuguese

– if you need information / request to CICS.NOVA as host institution, contact us by email to cicsnova@fcsh.unl.pt

All articles will undergo a preliminary selection process conducted by the Editorial Board to ensure their relevance to the thematic scope of this special issue. Selected articles will then be submitted to the blind refereeing of two experts.

All texts must comply with the following criteria:

1. They must provide their author(s) name(s), their institutional affiliation(s) and e-mail(s).

2. Texts, excluding abstracts, must not exceed 35,000 characters, including spaces.

3. Each article must be accompanied by three abstracts (in Portuguese, English and French) all of which must be no longer than 750 characters (including spaces). The abstract in Portuguese will be part of the main file (article); the other abstracts must be sent in a separate file.

4. All files, in Word format, must be sent by email.

5. All quotations must be translated.

6. All originals must:

a) contain the final, print ready version of the text, duly revised

b) include a title

c) specify 4 or 5 keywords, following the abstract, and in the three previously specified languages.

7. In text composition and formatting, authors should comply with the following guidelines:

a) Use no more than two heading levels; Introduction and Conclusion are not numbered; use Arabic number for the body of the text;

b) Quotations of 4 lines or less should be placed within inverted commas; longer quotations should be presented as indented paragraph(s), without quotation marks;

c) Words/phrases in other languages should in italics;

d) Non-textual elements must be presented in tables, charts or figures, with individual Arabic numbering;

e) Footnotes will be numbered, without brackets;

f) References will comply with the following example: (Rodrigues, 1993: 103); (Costa & Almeida, 1991: 80-84); (Greenwood, 1997a); (Greenwood, 1997b);

g) References at the end of the article should be presented as follows:

- SURNAME, Name (year), Title of the book, place of publication, publisher.

- SURNAME, Name (year), “Title of the article”, Title of the journal, volume (number), number of first and last pages.

- SURNAME, Name (year), “Title of the article/ chapter”, in Name and Surname of the editor(s) (eds.), Title of the book, place of publication, publisher, number of first and last pages.

- Internet Document: SURNAME, Name (year), Title of the document [Online], available at: address [accessed: date].

- Internet sites and personal or institutional pages: Name [Online], available at: address [accessed: date].

- Articles in online journals: SURNAME, Name (year), “Title of the article”, Title of the Journal, volume (number), number of first and last pages [Online], available at: address [accessed: date].