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[teacher12]

To cut a long story short, I have lost my academic affiliation (due to job loss because of budget cuts I was non-TT).  Due to the late timing, no academic jobs are forthcoming - it seems I will have to wait for the next job cycle. My question is:

1. I have two completed papers, which are ready to be sent off to journals. Now I no longer have an affiliation, is it possible for me to submit papers to journals? If so, how should I answer questions regarding affiliation? I have not seen unaffiliated people publishing in journals, so I am concerned about what to do with these papers.

2. What happens to the papers already submitted sometime earlier while I was affiliated with the university, and a decision has not been reached yet ? What does the loss of affiliation mean for theose papers.

If it helps, I am in a social science field

[case_insensitive]

I'm sure there's a recent thread on this somewhere...

You don't need an affiliation to submit a manuscript to a journal.  Loads of independent scholars publish in decent journals. Just sent the manuscript like you'd normally do. No one is going to ask you questions about your affiliation.  Just put your current address. Put "independent scholar" or "consultant" if you feel the need to self-identify.

The loss of affiliation only means that when you publish them you need not list that university since you are no longer there.

[teeban]

This thread addresses that question. So sorry to hear about the job.

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,39592.0.html

[teacher12]

Thank you for your replies. The link also helped. I was getting the feeling that my voice had been taken away - no longer so!

[mickeymantle]

Hope this is not too late.  But an unaffiliated scientist published three groundbreaking papers despite his not having an academic job yet.  His name: Albert Einstein.

[nowser]

I have 20 "publications" and have never even managed to get a job interview, let alone a job! - One book (my dissertation), 3 book chapters, 2 conference papers, about 11 peer-reviewed articles and 3 academic book reviews. I am usually published under may name follwed by "graduate of doctoral program , then my uni name". Sometimes they just put the name of the uni.

I'm going for the world record for most published "academic" who never got a job.

[icurhere2]

You can definitely publish without an affiliation. 

On the more personal note; rather than waiting for the next cycle, I also encourage you to look to see if any positions come up with January start dates - these do happen and some of my best tenured friends started in January; some schools will hire specific specialties in January (e.g. hard-to-fill fields, situations where a candidate / incumbent resigned just before the start of the year, etc.).

[case_insensitive]

I have 20 "publications" and have never even managed to get a job interview, let alone a job! - One book (my dissertation), 3 book chapters, 2 conference papers, about 11 peer-reviewed articles and 3 academic book reviews. I am usually published under may name follwed by "graduate of doctoral program , then my uni name". Sometimes they just put the name of the uni.

I'm going for the world record for most published "academic" who never got a job.

Is this common in your field? Do you mind revealing your field? Does this mean everyone who is employed is publishing more?

[bibliothecula]

Another link that might help:
http://academic-ronin.blogspot.com/2007/07/whats-my-affiliation-wait-i-dont-have.html

[nowser]

I have 20 "publications" and have never even managed to get a job interview, let alone a job! - One book (my dissertation), 3 book chapters, 2 conference papers, about 11 peer-reviewed articles and 3 academic book reviews. I am usually published under may name follwed by "graduate of doctoral program , then my uni name". Sometimes they just put the name of the uni.

I'm going for the world record for most published "academic" who never got a job.

Is this common in your field? Do you mind revealing your field? Does this mean everyone who is employed is publishing more?

Perhaps I should have mentioned that I just received by doctorate in May 2007, and have applied for just four jobs! My thesis is technically in educational policy studies, but I have written on quite an array of subjects, mostly within the field of Futures Studies, which is not a big field, as you might appreciate (Futures Studies itself is very cross-disciplinary, and I am a bit of a jack of all trdes, master of none). I have writte about intelligence theory, consciousness, the future of education beyond the knowledge economy, civilisational dialogue, history of science, philosophy of science, and so on.

I might scare a few prospective employers because my "focus" is so diverse.

[nowser]

And I don't now if people are writing more. But I am a bit of a writer, and have published all the way through right from the first semester of my doctoral program. In fact I turned parts of my thesis into papers, and used the feedback from reviewers to edit my thesis - not a bad idea if you want to get some idea of the kinds of criticisms your thesis is likely to get when you submit. It definitely helped me.