JSSE – Solitude Together With Education

Wonderful news from Australia! A special issue of the ‘Journal of Silence Studies in Education’ entitled ‘Solitude Together With Education’ edited guestly by dr Małgorzata Wałejko (University of Szczecin, Poland) and prof. Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK) has just been published. We will find there articles by our Colleagues from the UK, Canada, Norway

Seminar – dr Anne Pirrie – Finitude, solitude, and the renewal of generosity

The seminar will take place on Thursday 27th October at 4 pm of UK time /11.00 US EST time /5pm Polish time / 5pm Malta /6pm Israeli time / 6pm Turkish time / 11pm Hong Kong / 1am next day Melbourne. The seminar will be held in the MS Teams application. If you want to join, click

ISRS 2022/2023 seminars

We invite you to the next seminars (on-line) organized by ISRS. The first will be on 27th October 2022. Dr Anne Pirrie (University of West of Scotland, UK) will talk about finitude, solitude, and the renewal of generosity.  This contribution takes its inspiration from Edward Jabès’ observation that ‘thought has no ties: it lives by

Call for papers: Silence and Solitude. Special issue of the Journal of Silent Studies in Education

Dear ISRS Members   We are excited to invite you to contribute to a special edition of Journal of Silence Studies in Education, entitled Silence and Solitude (December 2022). Dat Bao, the journal’s editor-in-chief and our Australian friend, asked us to edit a special issue building on the work of the Alone Together conference which took place at the end of

International Pandisciplinary Symposium on Solitude in Community Alone Together: 3 – Report

The third International Pandisciplinary Symposium on Solitude in Community Alone Together took place online on the 31st of March and 1st of April 2022.  The event was organized by the ISRS: the International Society for Research on Solitude together with the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Szczecin (Poland) and Bishop Grosseteste University (UK) under auspices of  The Reverend Canon Professor Peter

Call for papers: The Loneliness Pandemic? Special Edition of The Journal of Psychosocial Studies

Loneliness, labelled a ‘pandemic’ in the 1990s, ‘The Leprosy’ of the 21st Century in 2018 and described increasingly as a public health problem, has captured the popular and academic attention. It is now considered so widespread that a billion-dollar industry has been developed to meet the needs of those who do not know what to do about

Recordings of the Alone Together sessions are now available.

Call for book chapter contribution

Call for book chapter contribution – The lonely life of ethnic minority academics in the West (part of loneliness and solitude book series) Introduction: Ethnic minority academics constitute an important part of academic communities, and also play an irreplaceable role in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in higher education. Even though minority ethnic academics are

The first issue of Journal of Silence Studies in Education released

We are delighted to announce that the first issue of the Journal of Silence Studies in Education (JSSE) Vol.1 No.1, 2021 is now out and available.  Journal of Silence Studies in Education (ascee.org).  Apparently, this is another significant step in the popularization of solitude and silence research.  The editor-in-chief, dr Dat Bao from Monash University in Australia

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness

We are happy to inform, that the Bloomsbury Publishing House has just published ebook  The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness ed. by prof. Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK), dr Wong Ping Ho (the Education University of Hong Kong, China), dr Christopher A. Sink (the Western Washington University, USA) and dr Małgorzata Wałejko (University