The Journal of Enabling Technologies provides an international and multi-disciplinary evidence-base in health, social care, education and design on how technologies can enable disadvantaged, disabled, or otherwise marginalised groups to live full and happy lives
Aims and scope
The Journal of Enabling Technologies (JET) reports on research and practice around how technologies can enable disadvantaged, disabled, or otherwise marginalised groups to fully engage in life and society, thereby creating a more equitable, just and inclusive future for all.

The journal is interested in how such technologies are (co-)created, used and evaluated in practice, and the impact that they have on the people using them. This produces insights for users, practitioners, researchers, designers, stakeholders and caregivers (in the broadest sense).

JET aims to raise awareness of technologies and their uses in health, social care, education and design for a wide and varied readership. The areas in which technologies can be enabling for the scope of JET include, but are not limited to:

Independence and autonomy
Inclusion and equity
Health and wellbeing
Learning and employment
Self-advocacy
Care and support
Quality of life
Access to services
Communication and interaction
Identity and culture
Safety
Digital technologies are widely applied to assist and enable individuals’ participation in society and life, and the range of papers submitted to the journal strongly represents this. Innovation is at the heart of this agenda and the journal strongly encourages papers that report and demonstrate the design, use, evaluation and discussion of new technologies in new contexts or for new purposes.

The context of technology use may include schools, workplaces, homes, public spaces, clinics, hospitals, and transport. The users of these technologies could be people with physical, developmental, sensory or learning difficulties or differences, older people, or children and young people from marginalised groups.

Cutting across these contexts are major themes of ethics, participation, accessibility, inclusiveness, and social justice – in other words, responsible innovation within this field. Therefore, the journal encourages submissions from authors who wish to tackle these cross-cutting themes within the contexts noted above, which raise important questions that inform this research agenda.

JET publishes peer-reviewed papers that use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methodological approaches; articles that report opinions or facts; and book or technology reviews.

We also welcome proposals for special issue themes on timely and important topics.

Previously published as Journal of Assistive Technologies (ISSN: 1754-9450).