Open call to join the Editorial Team

The Amsterdam Journal of Social Sciences (AJSS) is a student-led journal affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. We aim to provide an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary debates in Social Science. Our mission is to ensure a platform for students to publish their work, exchange ideas, and be part of an academic community. To keep on doing so, the AJSS is looking for enthusiastic students who want to be part of a student-led journal in the following academic year, 2026 - 2027.

The editorial team consists of members from all social scientific disciplines (including psychology) who work to edit and review submissions that the AJSS receives from students at the UvA. As an editor at the AJSS you will be editing submissions according to the guidelines of our Editor’s Checklist. In doing so, the editorial team also determines if an article is ready to be published, has to be reviewed, or is to be rejected. In the reviewing process, you work together with another reviewer to critically engage with the content of the text, going beyond grammar and structure and into the fundamental argument of the text. This not only gives you tangible skills that can be utilized throughout your academic career, but also gives insight into how publishing actually works.

We always have space for more editors and reviewers to join the editorial team so if you are interested please send a brief email introducing yourself, your discipline, and why you want to become an editor to ajss@uva.nl. The editorial team meets every Tuesday 18-19 in CREA Voorfabriek with online options also available.