Open Call for Gender and Race papers

Why we need more gender and race research

We invite readers and researchers to share best practice guidance. We will collate those resources and modify our call text appropriately.

Rationale:

Race and ethnic inequalities in the experiences and outcomes of severe mental illness are well established. While scholars of colour have issued warnings for years, the Black Lives Movement and research showing racial and ethnic inequalities of death and severity of COVID-19 infections raised awareness of the impacts of structural racism and how health and social inequalities have not been adequately theorised or tackled. We need appropriate preventive, public health, and clinical interventions, and research must be more inclusive and ensure representation in trials and other study types. Gender disparities in career progression and senior leadership roles remain a priority, and there are intersectional disparities of health and social status and care, by gender, race, and other aspects of identity. Few research studies specifically consider the role of sex, sexuality, and gender, and the impact on health outcomes and the need for developing better research and complex interventions. We are seeking studies of individual, developmental, cultural, environmental, and multilevel influences. 

Call for papers:

The BJPsych is making a call for papers on race, ethnicity, sex, sexuality, and gender. We wish to receive original research, theoretical and analytic papers to progress these neglected fields of scholarship. We encourage all authors to consider these variables in their analyses and syntheses, firstly, by reporting inclusive research practices amongst the research teams and participants; secondly, by providing demographic breakdowns in their reports. We also wish to see studies that test how racism and sexism impact on health and social status and care experiences, and interventions. Research papers that highlight these neglected topics, and present evidence and nuanced analyses will be given significant priority

Deadlines:

This is an open call for papers. Papers may therefore be submitted at any time and there is no submission deadline.

Author instructions:

Please refer to the Instructions for Authors page which can be accessed here.

For this research in particular, we encourage authors to consult the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) Guidelines for reporting sex and gender information in study design, data analyses, results and interpretation. Authors should use the terms sex and gender carefully in order to avoid confusing both terms and include separate reporting and interpretation of the data by sex and gender.