Call for special paper collection proposals 2027 and 2028

We invite Special Collection proposals.from the wider Social Science community Project Leadership and Society (PLAS) is a golden open access journal that publishes innovative research, education and research methods papers to enhance knowledge on projects, leadership, project leadership, project management, and society.From 2027, the journal extends its scope to include papers on Leadership also outside project settings Excellent examples of finished paper collections include Project Leadership in a Changing World (Whyte et al., 2026), The role of digitalization in project management, (Papadonikolaki et al., 2025), The future of learning (Mariani et al., 2025), Boosting high-quality development by megaprojects (Yang et al., 2024) and Novel research methods in project studies, (Sergeeva and Ninan, 2025).Open calls include topics such as Leading projects through time (Kortantamer et al., 2025), Narratives in Project Leadership (Sergeeva et al., 2025) or Engaging with Policy (Volden et al., 2025).Special paper collections serve for debating important issues, for drawing attention to topics, approaches, and perspectives and for offering new knowledge relevant to research, education, practice and policy.We seek topics that have the potential to attract sufficient strong submissions to considerably advance knowledge.We encourage responsible research (Unterhitzenberger et al., 2024) and scholarship with impact.We are interested in collections that question the status quo, engage in novel research approaches and methods and foster cooperation between practice and scholarship (for example Gregor and Zwikael, 2024) to serve a wider audience including scholars, educators, trainers, consultants, students, practitioners and policy makers.The proposal consists of two parts, the proposal body (3 pages) and an appendix.