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A collective volume coordinated by Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar Awa Ndiaye (University of Ottawa), this call invites francophone doctoral students from all disciplines to reflect critically and creatively on their doctoral experience. The volume aims to showcase diverse perspectives and epistemologies from across the Francophonie.
Please note:
This is a French-language publication. Contributions must be written in French, though the call is open internationally to all francophone doctoral students across all disciplines and regions.
This collective volume, coordinated by Awa Ndiaye (University of Ottawa, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar 2025), seeks to amplify the voices of emerging Francophone scholars across diverse geographic, disciplinary, and epistemological contexts. Through critical, reflective or engaged contributions, the project aims to rethink research from the inside, with a focus on shared leadership, intergenerational dialogue, and the valorization of emerging perspectives. Initiated by and for the next generation of researchers, this editorial project is supported by an interdisciplinary editorial advisory board composed entirely of doctoral students and early-career researchers. It offers a space for critical reflection, storytelling, and experience-sharing, at the intersection of individual trajectories and collective challenges related to doctoral training, epistemic engagement, and the material and symbolic conditions of scientific production.
In an academic context increasingly shaped by performance-based metrics, structural inequalities, and epistemic marginalization, this volume embraces a plural, transversal and reflexive approach. Contributions may be grounded in specific disciplines, institutions or territories, while remaining open to interdisciplinarity, critique and subjectivity.
Rather than prescribing norms, this book aims to co-construct a polyphonic body of work, where experiential, theoretical, methodological and affective knowledge intersect. The overarching objective is to think of research differently, as a space of co-agency, solidarity, and future-shaping potential for emerging scholars.
A concluding afterword will be written by a senior scholar of international standing, recognized for their contributions to research innovation and doctoral education.
Editorial advisory board
- Awa Ndiaye, Ph.D. student and Vanier Scholar, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa (Canada)
- Dr. Rony Abecidan, Co-founder of LABEL4.AI, former Ph.D. researcher, CRIStAL lab, SIGMA team (France)
- Arthur Strauss, Ph.D. candidate and quantum computing consultant, Centre for Quantum Technologies (Singapore
Submission Guidelines
- Abstract (max. 250 words) and short bio (50–100 words) due by September 18, 2025
- Final chapters (upon selection) due by January 30, 2026
- A detailed author guide will be sent to selected contributors
- The edited volume is intended for submission to a recognized university press
Please submit via this form: https://forms.office.com/r/ef0gh6A9Bm
