Peer review maintains the quality and reputation of published research. For the system to work, researchers who publish must reciprocate by reviewing the work of others. Therefore, the ability to review manuscripts quickly and effectively for journals should be a core skill of every researcher.
While researchers must play their part as reviewers, they should not be spending excessive amounts of time reviewing manuscripts. By learning how to review manuscripts quickly, they will have more time for their own research.
This 2.5-hour webinar is designed for humanities postdocs and early career research staff with little or no experience of reviewing manuscripts for journals. This webinar offers clear guidance on best practice based on the advice of 156 editors of literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, human geography, regional studies, anthropology, politics, economics, law, and sociology journals.
Through interactive group exercises and discussions, attendees will learn:
- how the peer review system works
- about their responsibilities as reviewers
- what editors expect in a review (based on a survey of 156 editors of HASS journals)
- why the peer-review system can sometimes go wrong
- how to critically evaluate a research manuscript
- what to include in written comments to editors and authors
- how long they should spend reviewing a manuscript
- practical methods for reviewing a manuscript quickly and effectively.
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Webinar facilitator: Dr David T. Jones. David is a research biologist. He has had four postdoc research contracts at the Natural History Museum in London, Imperial College London and overseas. He is now a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, and is currently working on a NERC-funded project. He has written or co-authored 55 journal papers and three book chapters. For the last eight years David has been running this webinar, and the highly successful webinar Get that Paper Written and Published at 16 UK universities.
Queries about this opportunity should be addressed to training@humanities.ox.ac.uk.
