Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement

September 2016 Teaching and Learning Conference

How to get published

James Wisdom

Visiting Professor In Educational Development

jameswisdom@compuserve.com

Programme for the workshop

Starting up

Considering content and format

Finding where to publish

What are the referees looking for?

Building up experience and capacity

What needs to be written?

Start-up activity:

Please open a conversation with three or four

people around you, considering these questions:

What do you really want to write and publish?

Or

What would you really want to read?

(We will move on when we think most participants

have arrived…)

Considering content and format:

What might be the processes, and what might

be the products?

Investigation Paper

Evaluation Case study

Scholarship Article

Research Chapter

Review Report

Forms of evidence-informed scholarship other than research

Investigations and evaluations

Enhance our understanding of a local problem or issue, providing

recommendations for policy and/or action firmly situated in the relevant

literature

Literature reviews

Collection and analysis of literature aimed at describing the various ways

in which the object of the review is thought about and recommendations

for practice

Scholarship of teaching and learning

Evidence-based critical reflection on practice aimed at improving practice

Surveys of academic staff and student experiences of teaching and

learning

Collection and analysis of current experiences of teaching and learning

Prosser, M. (2005) Supporting the student experience, a scholarly approach.

Academy Exchange, Autumn 2005, 8-9.

Case Studies: should be critical reports about work

undertaken on an international, national, regional or local

basis. They are likely to include the following:

• a background scenario;

• a clear statement of the purpose of the work;

• relationship to past or current work;

• who was involved;

• what happened;

• what deductions can be made;

• a critical review of the work;

• the implications of the work reported.

Guidance for authors from Innovations in Education and

Teaching International on case studies

Where to publish?

The value of Research into Higher Education Abstracts

Finding journals

Finding the publishers

Other lists

150 Journals, 750 abstracts each year

1900+

900

2400

2000+

2000+

Taylor and Francis

http://www.echer.org

http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/ceebl/

resources/dissemination/publication_outlets.doc

(underscore between publication and outlets)

General Educational Journals

About CampusAcademic Exchange QuarterlyAcademic QuestionsAction Learning: Research and PracticeActive Learning in Higher Education

ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education) Higher Education ReportAssessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice Australian Educational ResearcherBritish Educational Research Journal British Journal of Educational StudiesBrookes eJournal of Teaching and Learning

Cambridge Journal of Education Etc etc etc

Subject specific journals in Art & Design

Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education Arts and Humanities in Higher EducationCommunication EducationCommunication TeacherDesign Studies

International Journal of Art and Design Education (formerly Journal of Art and Design Education)International Journal of Education through Art

International Journal of Technology and Design EducationJournalism and Mass Communication Educator

Journal of Aesthetic EducationEtc.

https://doaj.org/

Includes, for example:

Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (STLHE)

Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDHE)

OR:

Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE)

http://www.oajse.com/

What are referees looking for? A comparison

exercise

Between Innovations in Education and Teaching

International (published by SEDA – the Staff and

Educational Development Association)

And

Studies in Higher Education (published by SRHE - the

Society for Research into High Education)

Innovations in Education and Teaching International

Guidance to authors:

Contributions are welcomed on any aspect of promoting

and supporting educational change in higher and other

post-school education, with an emphasis on research,

experience, scholarship and evaluation, rather than mere

description of practice …..

As an international publication, contributors should both

contextualise and consider the transferability of the

practices and theories being examined.

Innovations in Education and Teaching International

Guidance to referees:

You are asked to make recommendations about the article on

one of three bases:

• accept without hesitation;

• reject without hesitation;

• requires modification.

Comments on general and specific points are most welcome

(e.g. style, coverage; rigour; statistics; relevance; contribution

to the field i.e. education, training, staff development,

educational technology).

It would be helpful if you could put your recommendations and

comments about the article on the enclosed pro-forma…..

Studies in Higher Education - Guidance to authors

a leading international journal publishing research-based

articles dealing with higher education issues from either a

disciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspective.

Empirical, theoretical and conceptual articles of significant

originality will be considered.

….. to enhance understanding of higher education policy,

institutional management and performance, teaching and

learning, and the contribution of higher education to society

and the economy.

Comparative studies and analysis of inter-system and

cross-national issues….. global and international themes.

Studies in Higher Education

Referee's report (Please ring the most appropriate response)

How clear is the purpose of the paper? Unclear Fairly clear Very clear

How well constructed is the argument? Poorly Moderately Very well

How much does the paper add to its field? Little A moderate

amount A great deal

To what extent will the paper appeal to this Journal's international readership? Not at a l l Moderately Greatly

Studies in Higher Education

Please give below your overall opinion regarding

publication, and provide specific comments on a separate

sheet. Bear in mind that 'Studies’ can publish about one in

four of the papers that are submitted,

Recommendation (please tick one of the first four, or

comment against the fifth)

Publish the paper as it stands

Publish the paper with relatively minor revisions

Publish the paper only if major revisions are made in line with

referees' comments

Reject

Other (please specify)

Thoughts about what the referees are looking

for?

What increases or decreases the possibility of

publication?

Building up experience and capacity

Classroom evaluation

Module and programme research

Create a network – face to face

(The Hertfordshire question: How do we know what we

know?)

Create of a network – through social media

Writing papers for T&L Committees

Submissions and presentations to conferences

Writing for in-house journals (Middlesex Journal of

Educational Technology, or Compass at Greenwich)

Refereeing

Other suggestions?

The opening questions:

What do you really want to write and publish?

Or

What would you really want to read?

Student engagement and partnership

Assessment reform

New models of curriculum and course design

Widening participation and fair access

UK as a global educator

Graduate skills and employability

Any more?