Call for Chapter Proposals

The Social, Cultural, and Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Within the span of less than two decades, humanity has grappled with three serious novel coronavirus disease outbreaks: SARS in 2002, MERS in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019-nCoV outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and on February 11, 2020, it named the new virus COVID-19. On March 12, the WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic. Since then, life as we knew it has changed dramatically around the globe. As of May 16, 2020, there were close to 4.5 million confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 and more than 300,000 deaths worldwide. This disease outbreak has wreaked havoc in our daily lives over the past few months and deserves to be documented and closely examined. Hence, Qatar University Press is seeking chapter proposals for an edited book of approximately 12 chapters, tentatively titled The Social, Cultural, and Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

We are looking for original contributions that have not been published previously. We welcome contributions from social science and humanities scholars from around the world. National and international qualitative and quantitative research proposals are welcome. The book’s topics will target a broad audience, including policymakers, researchers, educators, college students, and health professionals such as nurses, physicians, psychologists, and social workers.

Language: English 

Possible topics may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

• The social and psychological impacts of social distancing and isolation
• Attitudes toward the COVID-19 disease outbreak
• Prejudice and stigma of COVID-19 patients
• family interaction
• Parent-child interactions
• Mental health issues (anxiety, fear, depression, grief and loss, substance use)
• Illness and health behavior  
• Children and adolescents
• The rise of domestic violence during the pandemic
• Social media
• Care of dependent relatives
• Social inequality
• Vulnerable populations
• Refugees
• Health care workers

 Each chapter proposal will receive an initial review by the editor. Your chapter proposal should be 500–800 words and include the following parts:

1. Name, affiliation, biographical sketch, and email address
2. A working title for your chapter
3. A brief discussion of the rationale, conceptual framework, methodological details, and how the chapter fits the general theme of the book.   

  The authors of accepted chapter proposals will be invited to submit final chapters of approximately 10,000-12,000 words in APA style (7th edition).  You will receive more detailed guidelines for writing your chapter once your chapter proposal has been accepted.

Important Deadlines

All submissions should be emailed to: qupress@qu.edu.qa copying Prof. Abdallah Badahdah, South Dakota State University, Department of Sociology & Rural Studies: abdallah.badahdah@sdstate.edu