About Us

Aims & Scope

Seven Bridges is a student-led, academic journal published annually by Newcastle College. The journal was launched in 2013 as a student journal dedicated to business and management, from July 2014 Seven Bridges expanded its remit to become a multidisciplinary journal.

Seven Bridges is built upon the principle of Student as Producer, an approach that focuses on engaging students as active academic partners in education, research and scholarship. The journal provides a supportive opportunity for students to publish their research, as well as engage in academic editorial and peer review processes.

The Seven Bridges Editorial Team are appointed through the Newcastle College student fellowship programme, which provides funded opportunities for students to engage in extra-curricular projects aimed at enhancing the student experience.

Information for Authors

Seven Bridges aims to provide a supportive process for students to develop articles suitable for publication. The editorial and peer review process is intended to provide formative feedback to inform the development of articles.

Seven Bridges publishes articles from any discipline up to 4000 words in length. Articles are accepted throughout the academic year. Seven Bridges does not charge authors fees. All articles should follow the Seven Bridges style guide, which can be downloaded below.

To submit an article, send the full text to: sevenbridges@ncl-coll.ac.uk.

Get Involved

Each year new members of the editorial and peer review teams are recruited. If you’d like to be involved as an editor or peer reviewer for Seven Bridges, contact us via email: sevenbridges@ncl-coll.ac.uk

Student Fellowship posts relating to Seven Bridges are published annually on the Newcastle College Research Portal site: http://research.ncl-coll.ac.uk

Our Editorial Process

Seven Bridges has a two stage editorial process, which is intended to support the development of articles for publication.

1. Articles are first of all assessed by the editorial team as to suitability for publication.
2. Articles suitable for publication are double-blind peer reviewed.

For a more detailed outline of the editorial and peer review process, please see our guidelines below:

Open Access Statement

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Publisher Information

Seven Bridges is published by
Newcastle College University Centre
Newcastle College
Rye Hill Campus
Scotswood Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE4 7SA.

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