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Target Audience: Postdocs

This is an online - one off workshop

Publishing your work is a core part of a successful research career. Getting a paper into print requires a significant time investment and draws on a range of skills: collaborative writing, figure design, analysis and concise communication. With over 30,000 journals to choose from, researchers need a clear publishing strategy that fits their field, career stage and goals.

Academic publishing is evolving. This workshop introduces participants to the editorial process, realistic timeframes, journal selection, peer review, metrics and the legal considerations that shape how and where research can be shared.

Peer review is something every researcher encounters, both as an author submitting work and as an expert asked to evaluate someone else's. The workshop covers how the peer review system works, its complexities, the responsibilities on each side of the process and how to make the experience as productive as possible.

Sessions include group discussions, individual exercises and examples drawn directly from the instructor's own publishing experience.

Course Outcomes/Objectives;

After this workshop participants will have:

• a clear overview of the publishing process & the timeframes involved

• an understanding of open access and copyright in the context of scholarly communications

• an overview of the peer review process, author responsibilities and what to expect

This course is delivered by;

j.young@scieditco.com  

Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff.

For online activity:

• The session will take place on Zoom
• Auto-captions will be enabled
• There will be audience participation
• You can keep your camera off
• You are asked to attend the whole session
• There will be a break
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
• Digital copies of resources will be provided to participants in advance of delivery as standard

Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

Cancellation Policy 

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* charge to your Department / School if you do not attend your place on the course. There will be no charge as long as you cancel your booked place before the event or notify our staff at osdu@strath.ac.uk that you can no longer attend.

A Department / School is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary prerequisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you are expected to attend ALL parts of the course.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of a course of 1-day duration or less. For some courses, there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking. 

Prerequisites