I am thankful to Cain and Eric for facilitating the changeover (to use a running metaphor). Becoming the new Emotion Researcher Editor is a humbling experience and I will endeavour to contribute creatively to ISRE’s Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect.
The current issue honours a previously invited contribution (on grief), acknowledges recent ISRE events and news (words from past and present presidents, a presentation of the new board, updates from the ECRS and from the Editors of Emotion Review, a retospective of the 2024 Conference and a tribute to Tim Averill) and also marks a transition towards a new format.
Indeed, Emotion Researcher will continue to showcase the diversity represented within ISRE but will depart from its traditional publication mode (i.e. issues). Instead, new content will be added online all year round, alternating between a variety of sourcebook items: interviews, spotlights, essays, point and counterpoint discussions, provocations, opinion pieces, short articles, insights, narrative summaries of original research, etc. I am open to suggestions, so feel free to send me your proposals, ideas, texts at rebecca.dickason@univ-rennes.fr.
One element that is guiding the evolution of Emotion Researcher is the migration from its current website to another website, possibly the main ISRE website. I am grateful to Disa, Manny and Alessio for joining me in a committee tasked with exploring various options to make the Emotion Researcher content easily available from the main ISRE website, and also to Teerawat for his insights on social media communication. In the coming weeks and months, we will continue working on this and present our ideas to the rest of the board to see what is technically realistic, aesthetically pleasing, strategically desirable, and what trade-offs we will have to make.
After this current issue, I will turn my focus to ensuring that all the previous Emotion Researcher content finds its rightful place on its new website. As Alessio is still investigating the main ISRE website’s potential and limits, I cannot yet give details on the final outline. However, I can share my guiding principle: honouring the contributions from the past and giving a space for new conversations on emotions to blossom within Academia. I am looking forward to adding new content on the website once the new structure is finalized.
ISRE’s Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect offers a plurality of perspectives (themes, disciplinary fields, etc.) which makes it a unique platform for researchers (and even for a wider audience). I am a firm believer in the relevance of multi-/inter-disciplinary dialogues in order to advance knowledge and I hope Emotion Researcher can continue to share alternative views on the ever-expanding field of emotions.
Thank you for putting your trust in me to bring this outlet to the next stage of its ongoing development… and thank you for your patience while the new version of Emotion Researcher is brought to life from behind the scenes!
Best,
Rebecca
Rebecca Dickason is Associate Professor at the IGR-IAE Graduate School of Management and at the Centre for Research in Economics and Management (CREM, University of Rennes, France). A member of EMONET, she envisages emotions from the angle of work and organizations and joined ISRE because she sees in it a unique interdisciplinary agora to further understand emotions, from individual and collective perspectives. She has recently published a narrative review of the literature on emotional labour in the Revue Française de Gestion, examining the filiations and evolutions of the concept across various disciplinary fields. As a keen observer of healthcare settings for many years, she has explored the emotional labour of hospital healthcare professionals diversely, through the prisms of time, space, and rules, and how they intertwine. She has also delved into the topic of the deteriorated mental health, trauma and pathological grief of physicians in the face of end of life and death, creating “Emotion4care”, a scientific blog, in 2022, coordinating an issue of the nursing journal Soins (Elsevier Masson), in 2023, and participating in a Symposium on grief at the US Academy of Management, in 2024. Her other ongoing projects include researching the history of emotional intelligence and exploring the links between the corporeal and emotional experiences at work.
