Personal Publishing Strategies

Facilitator/Trainer Dr Robin Derricourt - OD External Facilitator
Intended for early career academic and research staff

Description

How to set a plan to publish your ideas and your research results, and communicate them to the wider world. Publication – in a range of media – may help to establish or advance a reputation and career, share research with a wider academic or professional audience at home and abroad, influence public policy, put results into the permanent record, and even give creative pleasure. The workshop looks at what is changing (and what is not changing) across scholarly and other forms of publication, and reviews strategies to define personal priorities for publication, and to achieve publishing goals.

Format: A presentation by Dr Robin Derricourt, together with some written worksheets, and exchanges of perceptions and experiences between participants.

Topics in the workshop will include:
  • Setting personal and professional goals
  • Setting and using a personal timetable for publication
  • Inputs: research and more
  • Defining audiences
  • Media forms: the many meanings of 'publish'
  • The how, what and when of getting published, including:
  • Journals: electronic and print
  • Conference papers
  • Books and monographs
  • Magazines: print and online
  • Newsgroups and other online publishing
  • Multimedia and new media
  • Issues and questions in a changing environment

About the Presenter 

Dr Robin Derricourt has over 30 years’ experience in senior editorial and management roles for Australian and international publishers; he was a publishing director for Cambridge University Press in England and Australia, a senior publisher for Pearson (Longman Group), group director of Fine Arts Press and G&B Science, and until 2010 was the chief executive of the University of New South Wales Press.
 
His own background includes a PhD from Cambridge and he has taught at universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and the USA. He currently holds a visiting appointment as an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW. His own published writing includes six books and over fifty articles and chapters, including a guidebook to scholarly and non-fiction publishing.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this workshop participants will have gained perspectives, and possess some practical tools, to define and put into effect their own priorities in publication of all types.

This course is part of Career Development.