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Spark – The UCDA Design Education Journal
Spark—the UCDA Design Education Journal—invites submissions that heighten and expand the understanding and practice of design and design education in the past, present, or future.
EDITORIAL BOARD
CHIEF EDITOR
Kyra Whitehead, Wenzhou-Kean University
[About the Editor]
Susan Matherne, UCDA Executive Director
DESK REVIEW COMMITTEE
Michael Clayton, University of the Incarnate Word
Kelly MacArthur Salchow, Michigan State University
Sheri Selph, Middle Tennessee State University
Johnathon Strube, East Tennessee State University
PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE
Guenet Abraham, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Anne Beekman, Findlay University
Peter Bella, University of Central Arkansas
Lyn Brands, Arkansas Tech University
Calee Cecconi, University of Wisconsin—Stout
Christopher Cote, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Stephanie Cunningham, Florida Atlantic University
Laura Franz, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Nikhil Ghodke, Auburn University at Montgomery
Samantha Herbert, Auburn University
Anne Jordan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Kimberly Mitchell, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Chiranjeevi Rahul Rollakanti, Middle East College
Christina Singer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
John Smith, Chicago State University
Christopher St. Cyr, Delaware College of Art & Design
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
Reviews for Spark—the UCDA Design Edcuation Journal are double-blind. Identities of the reviewer and author are concealed from each other. Double-blind reviews are considered of high-quality for tenure and promotion committees.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Spark—the UCDA Design Edcuation Journal invites submissions that heighten and expand the understanding and practice of design and design education in the past, present, or future.
Submissions must not have been previously published in print or online, although articles that expand research from previously published material are welcome.
The only method of submission is by this form. Publishing for Summer 2024 Issue is now Closed. Submission form will be activated again once Summer Issue is published.
SUBMIT AN ARTICLE
Spark has call for submissions with two deadlines annually.
ISSUE 1: Call for entries closed. Publishing November 2024
ISSUE 2: Call for Entries Open November 2024: Call for Entries Closes: TBD / Publish June 2025
ISSUE 3: Call for Entries Opens May 2025: Call for Entries Closes: TBD / Publish December 2025