Advances in Community Services Research encourages courageous and bold new ideas, focusing on contribution, theoretical, managerial, and social science life implications. 

Community Partnerships and Impacts:

A central aim of service-learning and community engagement scholarship is to encourage reciprocal and mutually beneficial relationships between communities and institutions. The institutions, with an often public-facing goal of engaged citizenry, deploy intellectual, human, and financial resources in the service of the communities outside their walls. Faculty and students collaborate with community leaders, organizations, and individuals to identify community needs and assets, develop action plans, and implement and reflect on solutions. Scholars of service-learning and community engagement are urged to engage partners in the design and implementation of studies that reflect joint concerns and are of practical benefit to communities. Articles included in this section consider the partnership between communities and institutions as a conceptual framework and unit of analysis. A list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to:
*Conceptualizations of the civic roles and responsibilities of educational institutions and the tensions surrounding these conceptualizations as they emerge either from within the institution or in the interactive dynamics with communities and external partners.
*The effects of engagement-oriented transformations to institutional structures and policies.
*New, community-engaged visions of general studies or professional development programs, other curricula or individual courses, or results of studies of the effects of efforts to reform these educational structures.
*Research on service-learning and community engagement in the disciplines and their implications for identifying research questions, design, instrumentation, modes of analysis, and/or knowledge sharing.

The “Community Partnerships and Impacts” section welcomes submissions that demonstrate early and continuing involvement of community collaborators in developing objectives, implementing projects, and reflecting and evaluating programs.

Social Sciences:

The journal publishes research articles covering all aspects of social sciences, ranging from communication, management, economics, culture, Education, law, Social Health and religion that belong to the social context. Published articles are articles from critical and comprehensive research, studies or scientific studies on important and current issues in social science life implications.