From Idea to Published Work

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Academic Writing Month, or ‘Writefest’, encourages researchers across career stages and institutions to come together in the spirit of collaboration and to foster a supportive, safe, and sustainable writing environment. Working within that collaborative ethos, the University of Cambridge and King’s College London are pleased to invite you to a new panel event that explores the different stages of the publishing cycle and provides a forum for doctoral and early career researchers to bring their questions to an expert panel including:

• Sam Stranks - University Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology and the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Associate Editor at Science Advances; Editorial Advisory Board at ACS Energy Letters
• Meagan Simpson - Editor for Anthropology at Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Liz Colquhoun - Global Head of Portfolio for Heritage and Library & Information Science Journals at Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Marina Picciotto - Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University; Editor-in-Chief at The Journal of Neuroscience
• Rosalind Galt - Professor in Film Studies, King's College London

The event will feature a discussion between our panellists and plenty of time for questions from the virtual floor.

• What are the considerations a researcher needs to take for thinking about the appropriate vehicle for an output when in draft stage?
• What are editors and publishers looking for, and what are the pressures on them?
• What are the benefits of sharing our various perspectives?
• What are the transitions between an idea in its infancy and a book on the shelf?

Researchers (postdocs, PhD students, teaching fellows, research assistants)

• Virtual Writing Retreats - Academic Writing Month 2021