Submissions

• NELR Blog welcomes submissions from any undergraduate students, post-graduate students, post-graduate researchers, researchers, and academic members of staff at Newcastle University.
• Submissions should be in an MS Word file.
• Submissions should aim to be 1,000 -2,000 words. Submissions that are shorter will be considered, and it is likely that for submissions over 2,000 words authors will be encouraged to reduce their submissions to 2,000 words.
• References within the blog post should be by way of embedded hyperlink, rather than footnotes/endnotes. Include embedded hyperlinks to publications, cases, decisions, reports or legislation mentioned. If you are unsure how to do this, the NELR Blog Editors are happy to provide assistance. Where possible hyperlinks should be to open-access material.
• Suggestions for appropriate images that would complement the submission are encouraged. Please only provide images that are compliant with copy right.

To submit a blog post or to discuss an idea for a blog post, please email:  nelr@newcastle.ac.uk. Emails are currently being monitored by Dr Neha Vyas.  

Review Process

• Each submission will be reviewed by an NELR Blog Editor.
• An NELR Blog editor will send a decision email to the author including any relevant comments or suggested amendments from the reviews.
• The decision email will indicate whether the submission is accepted; needs minor revisions; needs major revisions; or, is rejected.
• NELR Blog aims to review pieces and communicate decisions within two weeks.
• Where minor or major revisions are needed, authors will be asked to communicate how long they will need to make these changes and resubmit the revised blog post.

Publication Process

• After the submission is accepted, NELR Blog will aim to publish the blog post within two weeks.
• The NELR Blog Editors will check the hyperlinks, format the blog post, and where images have not been provided, select an appropriate complementary image that illustrates the content of the blog post.