PhD Workshop: To publish or to perish?

Are you a continuing (or advanced) PhD student or a postdoctoral fellow interested on how you can further develop your career inside and outside of academia? In a fast-paced world, where the challenges and opportunities of the job market can change quickly, it’s not easy to make decisions about future career paths. How can you make the best use of the amazing research skills you aquire(d) during your PhD?

The School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London is organising a new series of four hands-on professionalisation and employability workshops open to PhD students after their first year of doctorate as well as postdoctoral fellows and other interested ECRs.

This is a 2.5-hour workshop that consists of a roundtable with academic members of staff at SPIR and a hands-on session offering bespoke advice to participants. What is a publication strategy and how can you get yourself one? If you are conducting research for your PhD or your postdoctoral fellowship and are wondering how you can best plan for publishing your findings, this workshop will be right for you. You will learn about what counts as a publication for different (academic and non-academic) audiences, about how you can best plan (and find the time) to turn your research into something publishable, and about how you can disseminate your work to an academic audience.

One week ahead of the workshop, please email to [email protected] a document of no more than one page including:

1. A one-paragraph abstract of your PhD (or your main research project) including a brief statement about the stage of research you are at (for instance, finished theoretical chapter, pre-fieldwork/post-fieldwork/no fieldwork, finished analysis, etc).

2. At the end of the document, briefly reflect on any existing plans (if any) to turn your research into (academic) publications.

Your one-page statement will inform the content of the workshop, particularly the hands-on workshop.

Registration will close on 15 October.

Host or Publisher School of Politics and International Relations