Commonwealth e-Journal of Local Governance
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In line with agreements reached at the 2007 Commonwealth Local Government Conference in Auckland, and since confirmed by the Board of CLGF, the Centre is coordinating a new Commonwealth e-Journal of Local Governance. Centre Director Graham Sansom has been appointed as the inaugural editor, together with an editorial board including senior academics and practitioners from New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean, Britain, Uganda, South Africa, India and Malaysia.
The first issue of the journal was published in May 2008 following its launch in London.
The journal is part of a broader initiative to strengthen the role and contribution of CLGF's associate members (universities and training institutes) in providing research and policy support. It brings together the perspectives of researchers and local government practitioners, and disseminate information, ideas and good practice as widely as possible across the Commonwealth. The journal will focus on two main themes:
- Improving local governance
- Local government as an agent of decentralised development
To meet its objectives, the journal will include a mix of formal research papers, practice notes and other contributions. It is divided into four sections:
- Research and evaluation: peer-reviewed research papers, typically 6-8000 words
- Commentary: shorter scholarly pieces that put forward a particular viewpoint on an area of research or practice
- Practice: articles describing current practices in local governance and development
- News and reviews: short notes on current or forthcoming events, and book reviews.
The Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance will be published bi-annually in May and November. For further information about editorial schedules or contributions, please contact Daniel Grafton or download our Guidelines for Authors here.
Editorial Board:
The CLGF Board has appointed the following members to the journal's editorial board:
- Graham Sansom, UTS Centre for Local Government, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Editor)
- Munawwar Alam, Commonwealth Secretariat, London
- Philip Amis, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Richard Crook, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
- John Harker, Cape Breton University, Canada
- Graham Hassall, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
- John Kiyaga-Nsubuga, Uganda Management Institute, Uganda
- Peter McKinlay, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Sneha Palnitkar, All India Institute of Local Self Government, India
- Phang Siew Nooi, University of Malaya, Malaysia
- Bishnu Ragoonath, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
- PS Reddy, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
- Randal Smith, London Borough of Hackney, United Kingdom
Editorial Team:
- Graham Sansom, UTS Centre for Local Government (Editor)
- Daniel Grafton, UTS Centre for Local Government (Assistant Editor)
- Susan Rhodes, CLGF Secretariat, London (Editorial Consultant)
