Wednesday, 10 May 2017
08:30-17:00
Manchester Metropolitan University
Members of the academic community are under increasing pressure to publish their work in peer reviewed and indexed journals, ideally with a good impact factor. Both senior academics and junior members of staff – as well as PhD students- are required to regularly publish. In some countries – in the UK for instance, where the preparations for the 2020 REF exercise are on the way periodical assessments of publication outputs may determine the extent to which
funding for a particular Faculty, School or Department may be up-kept, reduced or increased. A similar trends is seen elsewhere in Europe.
But even though there are institutional requirements and demands on academic staff to engage in publishing, there is a paucity of training schemes which may prepare members of the academic community to be able to produce high quality papers, and fulfil the ever stringent requirements from quality and REF-relevant journals. This is especially so in the field of
sustainability, where a variety of themes, research methods and approaches makes it often difficult to decide how and where to publish. Indeed, a considerable number of papers on
sustainable development are subject to a “desk reject” or do not withstand the peer review process, due to the lack of knowledge among authors about how best to prepare, present and submit their papers.
Based on the perceived need to train academic staff in the rationale, methodology and strategy of academic publish on sustainable development, this course is being offered. Having more and well trained staff who may be able to publish in high level journals, is among the top priorities for any modern university. This training course is a contribution towards achieving this goal.
Event contact Lizy Dowse · e.shorthouse@mmu.ac.uk