Webinar on publishing for Early Career Researchers

Experience of getting published and top tips from editors

What are publishers looking for? The session is aimed at researchers interested in learning useful tips from expert editors on how to publish in academic journals, a publishing house or social media outlets for wider audiences, such as The Conversation. Topics covered will include processes and challenges in commissioning and getting an academic book published, opportunities to publish with the University of Wales Press, and open-access research, including insights covering disciplines in STEM as well as Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Guest speakers:

Professor Tom Crick MBE FLSW FAcSS, Policy and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Swansea University

Tom Crick MBE FLSW FAcSS is Professor of Digital Education and Policy and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Swansea University. His academic interests sit at the research/policy/practice interface with a focus on citizen-centred approaches and impact, having led the major science and technology curriculum and qualifications reforms in Wales over the past 10+ years. Tom has been recently appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

He was appointed MBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours for “services to computer science and the promotion of computer science education” and was awarded the 2020 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award for his curriculum reform work in Wales.

He is Editor-in-Chief of The Computer Journal (2021-present), one of the longest-established journals (since 1958) serving all branches of the academic computer science community, published by Oxford University Press. Tom is also an Editor of the Wales Journal of Education/Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru (2020-present), a bilingual platinum open access journal published by the University of Wales Press.

Siriol Griffiths, Wales Editor at The Conversation

Siriol has been a journalist for 25 years, having started her career at BBC News & Current Affairs, working on both TV and radio as a reporter. She then moved to BBC Sport Wales, working as a sports reporter, producer and DV director. After leaving the BBC, she spent 15 years as a freelancer working for a variety of outlets across the globe. She was editor of The National Wales before taking up the position of Wales editor at The Conversation.

Dr Llion Wigley, Senior Commissioning Editor at University of Wales Press

Dr Llion Wigley is Senior Commissioning Editor at University of Wales Press (UWP) with responsibility for commissioning titles in the various fields of Wales Studies and in the Welsh language. He is also a historian and author who has published two books and several articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Welsh History Review and Llafur.

The webinar will be chaired by Dr Sara Elin Roberts (DPhil Oxon, FLSW).

Sara Elin Roberts (DPhil Oxon) is a historian specialising in the law, literature and culture of Wales and the March from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. She has particular interest in the medieval Welsh lawbooks, and is an acknowledged expert on the manuscript culture that lay behind the extraordinary dissemination of medieval Welsh legal texts between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. As well as her work on the Welsh laws, she has also worked on Dafydd ap Gwilym, the most renowned and original of the medieval Welsh poets. As well as contributing to the new edition published in 2010, she has also published individual studies of aspects of his work. Her most recent monograph is The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales c.1100-c.1500 (Boydell, 2022).

This workshop will be held in English only

This webinar is being run by the ECR Network (LSW) if you have any questions, please contact the team.