Your voice in The Pivot

The Pivot is AMOSSHE's online magazine. It's the platform for Student Services professionals to share their stories and get recognition for the work that often goes unnoticed. The magazine features on-the-ground insights, experimental practice, and discussions to inspire and inform our community and the wider sector.

We welcome submissions from all AMOSSHE member organisations. You don't need to be a named member to submit a proposal, but your organisation needs to hold an active subscription. You can find out if your organisation is an active member here.

We're looking to share new ideas, and we encourage submissions from individuals with diverse backgrounds, ambitions, and experiences to share their perspectives so our community cultivates excellence. This is your platform to share your work, contribute to the conversation, and empower our community with your knowledge and insights.

Also, if you’re not a Student Services professional, but your work impacts the experience of students at one of our member organisations, feel free to email us to see if your proposal is something we’d be interested in featuring in our upcoming edition.

At this time, we don't accept proposals from corporate organisations.

It’s the platform where the voice of Student Services professionals matters. Our magazine was created as a new perk to get involved and empower you to share your perspectives and contribute your expertise to influence the future of the sector.

Submitting a proposal gives you the opportunity to:

• Share your expertise and insights with a wide audience.
• Highlight the impactful work of your provider or team.
• Contribute to shaping the future of Student Services through thought leadership.

We’re looking for contributions that share expertise, highlight great ideas and spark discussions across providers in the UK and beyond.

We’d love proposals if:

• You've got uplifting and inspiring success stories to share.
• You’ve successfully, or unsuccessfully, used frameworks and evaluation methods, and you want to share the lessons learned while implementing your initiative.
• You’ve launched an initiative that influences the experience of students by tackling common challenges, e.g. cost-of-living crisis, balancing paid work, transition, and more.
• You’ve fostered inclusive environments that better support a range of students’ needs.
• You’ve delivered excellent services for students in an increasingly challenging environment.
• You’ve delivered initiatives, developed projects or undertaken research that others can learn from.
• You’ve worked across boundaries with other organisations to provide high-quality support and excellent outcomes for students.
• You’ve successfully looked for new opportunities to deliver student support.
• You’ve piloted a new approach or framework that has transformed your team’s way of working.
• You’ve adapted to policy changes and found ways to continue delivering impactful services.

All the pieces included in The Pivot must address topics of interest to Student Services professionals. There are many initiatives that impact students, and so if it doesn’t neatly fit into our examples, contact us, and we’ll let you know if it’s of interest.

The Pivot can feature a variety of content formats, including:

• Articles (up to 1,200 words).
• Case studies.
• Interviews or Q&A pieces.
• Infographics.
• Reflective think pieces.
• Videos.

We value creativity and encourage contributors to suggest formats that best convey their initiative. If you have any questions about the format or the creative possibilities for your submission, please contact us at [email protected].

Here you can find the latest edition of the magazine to get your creative juices going:

The Pivot

Explore our new online magazine, a platform where we share the wins, challenges, people, and initiatives from the Student Services sector.

AI is a great tool to develop new ideas and to help create an outline for an article. However, using it to write your whole article tends to lack the authenticity and personal touch we want to highlight in our magazine. We encourage you to use your own voice. We understand some people use AI tools to help with grammar or sentence structure, but we encourage you to use tools that won’t dilute your individual style.

Let us know if you need recommendations for tools that won’t compromise your voice.

You can find the form at the top of this page under the 'Call for submissions is open' expandable.

We're looking for brief proposals that’ll outline what you’d like to showcase to readers. If you're submitting an article, include the title and the central idea for your article. If you've got a first draft, feel free to submit it.

If you'd like to submit a multimedia piece, provide a short description of what you want to showcase, the format, and any technical details like duration and dimensions.

You're more than welcome to submit a finished product as your proposal, but it won’t guarantee that it'll get approved for the upcoming edition. The more information you include in your proposal, the more information it gives the reviewing panel to rate and give you useful feedback.

Contact Julia, Communications Officer, if you'd like to have an informal conversation about your potential contribution. Once your proposal has been submitted, you'll receive an email to confirm that we've received it. If you don't receive this confirmation within a week of submission, please contact us.

We'll provide feedback to everyone who submits a contribution for the upcoming issue. For this edition, you can expect feedback on your proposals no later than the week commencing 23 March 2026.

If your proposal isn’t selected, we may suggest you resubmit your proposal, so it’s still included in the upcoming edition. It’ll depend on the overall quality of your submission and whether any missing information could be clarified easily enough to address the points that affected the panel’s decision about progressing to the next stage.

We welcome proposals from as many contributors as you feel is appropriate. Please consider whether your number is appropriate, as we'll be providing feedback for editing, and the editing process may take longer the more contributors are involved.

Here’s the timeline if your proposal is selected:

• 25 March to 29 April 2026 – editorial period for approved contributors.
• Wednesday 29 April 2026 – first draft deadline.
• Tuesday 5 May 2026 – contributors receive additional feedback to edit their draft.
• 6 May to 20 May 2026 – period for contributors to revise their draft based on the comments from the editorial team.
• Wednesday 20 May 2026 – deadline to submit final draft
• 8 June to 12 June – final checks and approvals of the spreads
• Tuesday 16 June 2026 – Release of third edition

You’ll need to submit your first and final drafts on time, as they have hard deadlines, so we can meet our intended release date. If you’re able to submit your content before the deadline, please share it with the team, as it’ll allow us to provide feedback ahead of schedule.

If you have children, we’re aware some of the dates align with the Easter holidays, so please be aware of the timings when you’re considering submitting for this edition.

The Pivot is published three times a year. If you'd like to get more information ahead of the next edition's call for submissions, please contact [email protected].