“Selling (critical) finance”: Getting your work published
To be held on 3rd – 4th of September 2018
at the University of Warwick
Agenda
For Early Career Researchers, writing and publishing journal papers is an essential, yet often daunting, task. How to set up your original research and speak to existing debates? How to tailor your writing to specific journals? How do the peer review processes works? How to turn your PhD chapters into standalone pieces? Especially when it comes to journal submissions, these are real challenges. At the same time, pressures to publish have never been greater. For individual scholars, this can be a difficult, often frustrating reality.
This first WCF ‘Writeshop’ is an attempt to tackle these issues head-on by providing detailed feedback on manuscripts and additional peer support in their preparation for journal submission. After receiving great feedback for the open and collaborative format of last year’s WCF Workshop, the Warwick Critical Finance (WCF) group decided to take the concept further. Our idea is to organise a ‘Writeshop’: to work with manuscripts that are close to submission and—plainly speaking—“make them publishable” in what we hope will be an intellectually stimulating, productive, and supportive environment.
Experienced editors and editorial board members will provide individual advice and answer questions about journals’ interests, requirements and peer-review processes.
We will work in small review groups to provide feedback on the submitted pieces. Participants are expected to read and give detailed written feedback on two dedicated papers prior to the workshop, and to then discuss them with the authors during the workshop.
Programme
The WCF Workshop will include the following activities:
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Pitching-to-peers: a five-minute presentation of the article in front of the group.
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Author meets critics: feedback sessions in small groups of three.
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Individual one-on-one drop-in sessions with journal editors.
- A key note by Christopher May on the political economy of publishing
Participating Editors and Editorial Board Members:
- James Brassett (University of Warwick), Co-Editor of the Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy (tbc)
- Christopher May (Lancaster University), Editorial board of Review of Policy Research
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Lena Rethel (University of Warwick), Editorial board of Review of International Political Economy (tbc)
- Matthew Watson, (University of Warwick), Co-Editor of the Edward Elgar Handbooks Series in International Political Economy
Papers
Please find our Call for Papers here.
Funding
Limited funding is available to support travel expenses for a number of unfunded participants. If you would like to apply for financial assistance, please include a short case for support (max. 200 words) when submitting your abstract.
Timeline:
Application deadline: 16 May 2018
Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2018
Registration deadline: 15 June 2018
Papers due: 17 August 2018
Written feedback/comments due: 31 August 2018
Workshop: 3-4 September 2018
To go to the event page, please find it here.
