What are the challenges of learning and teaching in art design and communication? The peer-reviewed journal of Art Design & Communication in Higher Education aims to inform stimulate and promote the development of research in the field by providing a forum for debate arising from findings as well as theory and methodologies.

Asian Cinema is a seminal journal which has been published since 1995 by the Asian Cinema Studies Society under the stewardship of Professor John Lent. From 2012 Asian Cinema will be published by Intellect as part of our Film Studies journal portfolio. The journal currently publishes a variety of scholarly material - including research articles interviews book and film reviews and bibliographies - on all forms and aspects of Asian cinema. The journal's broad aim is to advance understanding and knowledge of the rich traditions of the various Asian cinemas thereby making an invaluable contribution to the field of Film Studies in general.

Australian Journalism Review publishes articles on a broad range of perspectives relating to journalism research practice and education. Its emphasis is on original theoretical empirical and applied research but it also provides opportunities to canvass perspectives on current debates on research practice and education through commentary pieces on specific topics.

This double-blind peer-reviewed journal is published twice annually with the second edition each year focused primarily on a theme and supplemented by a small selection of broader-ranging papers.

Prospective guest editor submissions on themes for future editions are always welcome. While many of Australian Journalism Review's submitting authors are based within the Australia-Pacific region the journal welcomes scholarship from around the world and extending into broader media and communication topics of relevance to journalism.

The journal incorporates a regular section highlighting the work of early career researchers particularly current or recent higher degree by research students as well as book reviews focusing on recent additions to the journalism media and communications publishing landscape.

AJR is the journal of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia.

Book 2.0 is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles and reviews about historical modern and contemporary book creation design illustration and production. Since its founding in 2010 Book 2.0 has explored topics that have included children's literature and culture traditional and modern storytelling oral literature poetry publishing and the enormous efforts being made by Indigenous speakers and their supporters to secure and sustain endangered languages.

Choreographic Practices operates from the principle that dance embodies ideas and can be productively enlivened when considered as a mode of critical and creative discourse. The journal provides a platform for sharing choreographic practices critical inquiry and debate.

We all wear clothes. We are all therefore invested at some level in the production and consumption of clothing. This journal intends to embrace issues and themes that are both universal and personal addressing [and dressing] us all. Increasingly as we all become accomplished semioticians clothing becomes the key signifier in determining social interaction and behaviour and sartorial norms dictate socio-cultural appropriateness. Following the rise of fashion theory on an everyday level we all understand that our clothes 'say' something about us about our times nation system of values. Yet clothing is not fashion; clothing is a term derivative from 'cloth' to cover the body whereas fashion alludes to the glamorous the ephemeral and the avant garde. We wear clothes but imagine fashion-an unattainable ideal.

Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty is the first journal dedicated to the critical examination of the fashion and the beauty systems as symbolic spaces of production and reproduction representation and communication of artifacts meanings social practices and visual or textual renditions of cloth clothing and appearance.

The course of cultures at both local and global levels is crucially affected by migratory movements. In turn culture itself is turned migrant. This journal will advance the study of the plethora of cultural texts on migration produced by an increasing number of cultural practitioners across the globe who tackle questions of culture in the context of migration. They do this in a variety of ways and through a variety of media. To name but a few relevant aspects of this juncture of migration and culture questions of dislocation travel borders diasporic identities transnational contacts and cultures cultural memory the transmission of identity across generations questions of hybridity and cultural difference the material and oral histories of migration and the role of new technologies in bridging cultures and fostering cultural cross-pollination will all be relevant. Methodologies of research will include both the study of 'texts' and fieldwork.

Design Ecologies foregrounds the inextricable connection between human communication and ecological accountability in architectural design. This burgeoning field has the potential to become a far-reaching discipline bonding a community that crosses over into and out of architecture environment interaction urbanism and performing arts and communication.