NADP Journal – Information for Contributors

Journal of Inclusive Practice in Further and Higher Education (JIPFHE)

JIPFHE papers share the common aim of furthering best practice to promote disability equality in post compulsory education. Papers may focus on any aspect of the student journey; transitions into Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE), experiences during education, and transition into work. We also welcome papers on the experiences of disabled staff.

JIPFHE is an open access journal – all content is freely available without charge. Users are can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Call for Papers

NADP invites contributions yearly from both members and non-members for its journal. There are no publication or administration charges for authors.

We aim to publish an issue each year and prospective authors should read the below authorship and submission guidelines before submitting their paper to publications@nadp-uk.org.

2026 Journal Timeline

Our timeline for the 2026 issue has been pushed to allow time to implement a new submission system:

Submission deadline September TBC
Publication November TBC

Please contact publications@nadp-uk.org if you have any questions or would like to enquire about submitting to JIPFHE for 2026.

Editorial Guidelines

The main audience for JIPFHE is staff who work with disabled people in FE and HE. Papers should be of practical use to this group, and enable readers to gain a deeper theoretical understanding in critical disability studies. This should allow practitioners to develop their day to day professional work.

Papers should fit into one of our two sections:

1) a practitioner-focussed experiential section where contributions from either disabled / neurodiverse people about their own experiences of post compulsory education and training (in its broadest sense) or from disability practitioners about their experiences of working with disabled students are very welcome.

These papers are generally published without being refereed – just with editorial approval. An brief abstract (no more than 300 words) is useful but not compulsory for these papers.

2) a refereed section which includes peer reviewed [research] papers; contributions this section should reflect ethical participatory / emancipatory research, which involves disabled / neurodiverse participants and results in interventions which improve services for disabled / neurodiverse people in the post compulsory education and training sector.

Practical Guidelines

Articles should be less than 6500 words (you may be asked to reduce the number of words even if your article is less than 6500, if the referees feel that you could express yourself more succinctly).
An abstract of no more than 300 words is required for research based articles.
Ethical guidelines prescribe that research participants should not be identifiable, and confidentiality must be respected. A clear ethics statement is required.
Harvard referencing is required, and a guide to Harvard referencing can be found with our accreditation references.
At least 50% of your references should be less than three years old.
Any automatic referencing must be removed before submission and references checked to ensure they adhere to Harvard format.

Process

You submit your paper to the NADP office.
Your paper is sent to the editor who nominates two referees to review the paper anonymously and return their comments to the editor.
The editor either then contacts you about the outcome or liaises first with the editorial board if there is not sufficient agreement between the reviewers. Refereeing can take some time, so please be patient.
If your paper is accepted you are given a reasonable timescale to make amendments (if required).
After final approval, your paper appears in the next issue of JIPFHE!