HRD Forum – Scoping the Future of the Journal

Mar 28, 2019

International Journal of HRD Practice, Policy and Research 2019, Vol 4 No 1: 91-94
doi: 10.22324/ijhrdppr.4.108

HRD Forum — Scoping the Future of the Journal

Sarah Minnis, Anthology Consulting and
Western Carolina University, USA
Mark Loon, Bath Spa University, UK

The incoming Editors of the Journal outline their thoughts on future contributions to the Journal.

Scholarly-based and reflective practitioners of human resource development (HRD) have a unique opportunity to both make use of the research published in The International Journal of Human Resource Development Practice, Policy & Research as well as contribute their knowledge and perspectives from practice to inform ongoing research in the field. Practitioners of HRD are on the front lines of utilizing promising practices derived from research implications as often as they are grappling with emerging challenges impacting an increasingly technologically and globally diverse population. It is this position as practitioners who are engaged with the literature on HRD that excites us. With a variety of paper types being introduced by the new journal co-editors, we hope practitioners will bring their experiences to bear in articles aimed for an audience interested in considering how practice informs research and research informs practice in human resource development.

We welcome contributions that not only inform our readers of ‘what is new’ but also in a manner that is cogent. Differentiating the types of papers guides contributors to develop more rigorous and focused articles, within a word count range that maintains the attention and interest of readers. Of course, we recognize that, for example, an article can begin with an evaluation of the implementation of a new training programme, which then goes on to conceptualize a new approach based on lessons learned. Nonetheless, a high quality article that reports an evaluation of a programme will entail a description of the aims of the programme, methodology, results and its comparison with the programme aims, and recommendations. Such level of detail in itself merits the focus on an entire paper.

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