Your PhD for Publication 2012 ANZAM MidYear Doctoral Workshop Professor Gael McDonald Session Outline Why Research and Publish What is your Research Totem Generating Topics to Maximize Output ID: 613183
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Slicing and Dicing Your PhD for Publication2012 ANZAM Mid-Year Doctoral Workshop
Professor Gael McDonaldSlide2
Session Outline
Why Research and Publish?
What is your Research Totem?
Generating Topics to Maximize Output
Generating Outputs from Your PhD
Journal SelectionSlide3
Questions
Create a list of the current hurdles you are experiencing regarding generating research outputs.
What do you perceive as the personal benefits to undertaking research and writing for publications?
3. How
would you describe your current research and publication
status
, on a Scale of 1 to 6, with 1 being just starting and 6 being
fully
active with international recognition?
What, in your mind, is the relationship between research, publications and teaching?
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Why research?Benefits to you:
Allows you to develop and refresh your teaching
Allows you to pursue an academic interest or solve an interesting problem
Satisfies a need to investigate an issue and to add to the knowledge base
Enhances career opportunities/promotionSlide5
What is your Research Totem(s)
Increasing your research base is first about finding your research totem(s)
You only need one or two
maximum
Reflect on your prior research and current interests
What are you known for, or would like to be known for
Avoid fragmentationSlide6
Increasing Your Publication Output
Increasing your publication output is not necessarily about the number of research projects.
It is about the number of topics that you can write on
And getting papers accepted Slide7
Topic Generation
Have you developed guidelines based on your experience that others would find useful?
Did you give a speech/lecture recently which could be a good article?
Do you have a comment or observation on current trends in your area of interest?
Have you tried something out and found that it didn’t work?
Are you wrestling with a problem or issue that doesn’t have a clear solution?
If
the answer is yes, or even maybe, you’ve got somewhere to start.Slide8
Topic Generation (cont’d)
Research Project – old and new
Current event -why
Opinion commentary/Theory
Summation of current/future practice/evolution
How to - the application of
List generation - 10 ways...
Do’s and don’ts
Local perspective
Spin-offsSlide9
Topic Generation (cont’d)
Classroom material/pedagogy
Combining research projects
Literature review
Research model
Alternative statistical treatment
Research notes
Failures
Unresolved problemsSlide10
QuestionsReflect on the discussion on topic generation and propose 3 potential paper
titles
Share these with the person next to
you
Identify which one or two topics/titles are of most interest to
youSlide11
Publishing can be distractingA thesis tells a more detailed, in-depth storyArticles require a different style of writingResearch for a thesis is, by its very nature, a work in progress
Authorship and intellectual property issues tricky
Publishing From Your PH.D ThesisSlide12
Advantages
The dissemination and sharing of ideas
Provides the opportunity to have your work externally critiqued
Excellent indication to future examiners that your work has already been quality assured
A great way to increase your
networks
Can be a growth opportunity propelling you into an activity that is new
Undoubtedly enhances your résumé
A direct impact on promotion
That information deserves to get out
Peer reviewSlide13
What could you publish?
Key issues in the
field:
The literature review
Conceptual model building
Research methodological issues
Original research instruments
Key research results
Ancillary topics
Research applications
Research mistakes
Sub-issues
Unique contributionSlide14
Journal SelectionChoose your location(s) before
writing
A few publishers, such as MCB University Press, Blackwell’s, Elsevier and Sage, can help in the first instance by supplying an up-to-date portfolio of their journals (MCB has more than 130 publications
)
The ERA list is however your best
friendSlide15
Tailor to Your LocationRead the
Notes for Contributors
and ask the editor for a positioning statement, or details on editorial objectives and quality criteria. Leaf through some back issues of the journal to get a feel for its style and
content
Have a back up location(s)