Writing for Publication
Workshops I & II - Wednesday June 27 and Thursday June 28
Workshop Overview
It has been increasingly important for postgraduate students and early
career researchers to gain skills in publishing their research in peer
review journals. This is also the case with Australian and international
postgraduate students who have an option to submit a "thesis by publication",
which incorporates published articles or those they have submitted for
publication.
This workshop is aimed at postgraduate and post-doctoral social science
researchers who would like to communicate their findings to an international
audience.
Prior to the workshop, participants are expected to submit draft versions
of their articles (a completed paper, including the abstract or a paper
outline, including the main abstract and subheading abstracts) that will
be corrected and returned to them with comments within four weeks. The
acquisition of relevant research writing skills throughout the workshop
will enable participants to refine their papers and subsequently submit
them to peer review journals.
By the end of this workshop, participants will have gained:
- critical analytical skills
- understanding of how to apply relevant criteria when selecting peer-review
journals
- knowledge on how to conceptualize and write a peer-review article,
including the abstract and respond to reviewers' and editors' comments
Pre-Workshop (optional)
- Submit own paper or paper outline (5000-7000 words) by 1 May
2007
- Anonymous reviewers' comments will be returned by 31 May 2007
Workshop Programme
| 9.00 - 10.30 |
PhD with or by publication: What does this involve? |
| 10.30 - 10.45 |
Morning tea |
| 10.45 - 12.00 |
- The writing process
- Knowing your audience, Conceptualizing papers and presenting
your findings effectively
- Submitting a paper
- Writing abstracts and identifying key words
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| 12.00 - 1.00 |
- Responding to editors’ and reviewers’ comments
- Dealing with conflicting comments
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| 1.00 - 2.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00 - 3.00 |
Group work: Assessing anonymous papers submitted to peer-review
journals |
| 3.30 - 3.50 |
Afternoon tea |
| 3.50 - 5.00 |
- Group presentations and discussion
- Authorship, ethics and politics
- Close
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The Facilitators
Siriporn Chirawatkul, Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
Professor Chirawatkul has a PhD from University of Queensland. She is
Director of the Centre for Research and Training on Women's Health, Faculty
of Nursing, and Director, Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing) Program, Khon
Kaen University, and has also been involved in strengthening training
and research capacity in Lao PDR. She holds several national and university
level awards for research and writing excellence. In 2006, she ran a series
of three workshops, supported by WHO, designed to strengthen and enhance
the skills and competencies of Thai health experts to write for publication
in international journals. Her visit in Australia and participation in
the conference is supported by The Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Stefanie Granado, Swiss Tropical Institute and The University
of Basel, Switzerland. Ms Granado's doctoral research involved
an ethnography of two contrasting urban settings in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire,
with attention to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of malaria.
Like other doctorates in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe, her volume
of work submitted for a PhD included papers published, in press or submitted
for publication. Stefanie is a member of a peer mentoring group, supported
by the Swiss Government to support young women academics. The group, "Between
Medicine and Culture," involves medical social scientists from both Switzerland
and southern Germany who are undertaking research with immigrant groups
as well as in poor countries and communities.
Milica Markovic, Monash University, Australia. Dr Markovic
has a master's degree in sociology from The University of Belgrade and
a PhD from The University of Queensland. Her research in Australia is
primarily concerned with immigrants, minorities and gender, although she
has also worked collaboratively with colleagues in Serbia on cervical
cancer screening. For the past five years, she has co-supervised PhD students
enrolled at Khon Kaen University, who spend six months of their candidature
in Melbourne, usually while developing their research protocol although
also when writing up their doctorates. She has facilitated a number of
workshops on qualitative research methods and writing for publication
at Khon Kaen University, The University of Malaya, The University of Melbourne
and Monash University.
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