A to Z of Publication for Scientists and Engineers

Course Code
50120636

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Suitability
Postdoctoral Staff and Final Year PhD Researchers in the Faculties of
Engineering, MaPS and Environment

Date(s)
Thursday, March 17, 2016, 08:30 to 17:30

Max Places:
60

Description
Mastering the art of publishing is critical to a successful research
career. This one-day conference for postdoctoral staff and final stage
PhD researchers working in science, engineering and technology areas is
dedicated to getting published.

A to Z of Publication is designed to give you fresh and encouraging
perspectives on the act of getting published and some tools to enable
this.

This course will cover the following topics:

•Opening Discussion: Identifying Our Challenges in Getting Published
•When and Where to
•The Writing Process, including exercise
•Presenting Data
•An Editor’s Perspective

Chair: Patricia Gray, Senior Research Training and Development Officer,
for the Faculties of Environment, Mathematics and Physical Sciences and
Engineering, Staff and Departmental Development Unit

Timetable

08.30-09.00 Registration and welcome drink

09.00-09.05 Chair’s Welcome

09.05-09.15 Opening Group Discussion: Identifying Our Challenges
in Getting Published

09.15-10.15 The Writing Process 1,
Professor Rob Kelsall, Professor of Semiconductor Nanotechnology, School
of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

10.15-10.30 Drinks Break

10.30-11.00 The Writing Process 2 – Shut Up and Write! How
writing group meetings can help you stop procrastinating and make
progress, Dr Lauren Gregoire, Academic Research Fellow, School of Earth
and Environment

11.00-11.30 Group Work: Setting Up a Shut Up and Write! Group
Patricia Gray, Senior Research Training and Development Officer, SDDU

OR
Group Work: strategies for focus, concentration and
progress in personal writing, Patricia Gray, Senior Research Training
and Development Officer, SDDU

11.30-12.30 When and Where to Publish
Marge Wilson, Emeritus Professor, School of Earth and Environment

12.30-13.15 Lunch

13.15-14.15 Presenting Data for Scientific Publication
Professor Andrew Mullis, Director, Institute for Materials Research,
School of Chemical and Process Engineering


14.15-15.15 An Editor’s Perspective on Getting Published in
Journals,Marge Wilson

15.15-15.30 Drinks Break

15.30-16.30 The Peer Review Game
Dr Tomasz Liskiewicz, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical
Engineering

16.30-17.30
RCUK Requirements for Archiving Data Associated with
Publication, Brenda Phillips or Graham Blyth, Research Data Advisors,
The Data Management Service, University of Leeds

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