How to Peer-Review Research Papers for Postdocs/Research Staff (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

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Wanting to learn more about the peer-review system and gain a core skill every researcher should possess? This course is designed specifically for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) postdocs and researchers at an early stage of their career with little or no experience of reviewing manuscripts for journals. Focus is on subjects covered by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council.

You will learn how to review research manuscripts quickly and effectively, what editors expect in a review, what to include in written comments to editors and authors and how long you should spend reviewing a manuscript. Following this course, which explores the results from a survey of 60 editors of AHSS journals, you will know the practical methods for reviewing a manuscript swiftly and successfully.

Outcomes:
- Gain a core skill that every AHSS researcher should have
- Understand how the peer-review system works
- Develop a better understanding of how to write your own manuscripts

Postdoctoral researchers/Research Staff

Number of sessions: 1

Dr David T Jones is a research biologist specialising in soil and invertebrate ecology. After several postdoc contracts at the Natural History Museum and overseas, he is now a Research Associate at Imperial College London. Over the last twelve years David has also been teaching a range of transferable skills to PhD students, postdocs and university staff on courses organised by Vitae (founded by Research Councils UK) and the British Council.

Two and a half hour