Contact us

For all enquiries and comments, please email esharp@gla.ac.uk.

To submit an article to us, please see our submission guidelines for full details.

As an electronic journal with a widespread editorial board, we are best contacted via email. If necessary, our postal address is:

    eSharp
    College of Arts & Humanities
    6 University Gardens
    Glasgow
    G12 8QH

If you are a postgraduate at the University of Glasgow and would like to know more about eSharp or would like to know how to get involved, please email esharp@gla.ac.uk with your details and one of the current team will be in touch with you. We are always delighted to welcome new members to our Editorial Board.

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E-pisteme: a postgraduate e-journal based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University, is dedicated to publishing fresh research of the highest quality from postgraduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Forum: a peer-reviewed online arts journal based at the University of Edinburgh. Themed issues are published biannually and contributions are welcomed from postgraduate students working in any area of the humanities.

FORUM Ejournal: is an international ejournal for postgraduate studies in Architecture, Plannning and Landscape. For nearly twenty years and counting, the journal has provided a forum for academic exchange regarding spatial practices, actively progressed architecture, planning, and landscape research, as well as supported the development of postgraduate scholarship and research.

From Glasgow to Saturn: A postgraduate literary journal based out of the University of Glasgow. 

Hortulus: an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, web-based journal of medieval studies, founded and published annually by an international board of graduate students.

Irrational Magazine: an annual / bi-annual e-journal run by postgraduate students at the University of East Anglia, specializing in Politics, International Relations and Development. It includes a current affairs debate page.

KULT_online: based at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus Liebig University Giessen, KULT_online is an interdisciplinary online review journal. KULT_online appears twice each semester and features reviews, in German and English, of books published within the last two years which bear a relation to the study of culture. All doctoral students are invited to contribute. You can get suggestions from our KULT_bibliography or suggest another book you'd like to review.

MHRA Working Papers: a forum for the presentation of initial findings and works in progress.

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Philament: an online journal of cultural studies and literary arts, run by postgraduates at the University of Sydney. Welcomes submissions in the form of long and short articles, reviews, fictional work, and visual or multimedia experiments.

Philosophical Writings:  an international journal published in the Philosophy Department at the University of Durham. Welcomes submissions on any area so long as they are treated in an analytic style. Its remit is to provide a channel for the publication of original work by advanced postgraduates and new academics, though it also accepts work by established academics.

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Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics: published three times annually, in April, August and December, essays are invited from postgraduate students on any topic in aesthetics. The Journal wishes to encourage a wide construal of the study of aesthetics to include papers from analytic, Continental or historical points of view.

QUEST: based in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences faculty at Queen's University Belfast, this peer-reviewed online journal encourages interdisciplinary papers from postgraduate students of all levels.  It publishes themed issues biannually.

Rebus: A Journal of Art History and Theory is the online postgraduate journal of the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex.

Rosetta: is a journal aimed at postgraduates and professionals from a variety of historical and archaeological disciplines. Within Rosetta you will find articles covering a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects, book reviews, museum and conference reports. There are also links to other sites of interest and forthcoming seminars and conferences.

The Luminary: is the online post-graduate journal, from Lancaster Univeristy's Department of English and Creative Writing. Our aim is to provide a forum through which post-graduates, from any institution, can share their current research and make connections with other post-graduates. We welcome submissions from language studies, linguistics, cultural studies, film studies, inter-disciplinary research students... in fact any paper related to the theme of the forthcoming edition. We hope to publish a wide variety of papers on a diverse range topics, texts and theoretical perspectives.

Slovo: an inter-disciplinary journal of Russian, Eurasian and East European affairs published by postgraduates of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Working with English: a peer-reviewed journal for new scholars in English Studies, affiliated with the University of Nottingham's School of English Studies. Open to submissions from postgraduates and those who have recently completed a postgraduate degree.

Arts Employability

Improving the employability of the staff and contributors of eSharp is a key aim of eSharp and the University.  At the University of Glasgow there are a number of faculty specific employability sites where students from each faculty can gain help and tips.  These sites are linked beneath.

LBSS Employability Site.