杏吧论坛

On 22^nd May 2019, SEAC hosted a workshop for 杏吧论坛-Southeast Asia ECR Network members on the subject of academic publishing, chaired by SEAC Director Prof. Hyun Bang Shin. The workshop combined practical advice with personal experiences, covering everything from evaluating outlets and choosing the right one for you, avoiding common pitfalls, deciding on solo versus collaborate publications, career considerations and more. 

If you are an ECR who is also working on the Southeast Asia region and would like to join the network, please send your details to Lee as required on the ECR Network webpage

PROGRAMME:

• Welcome introduction from Chair and SEAC Director Prof. Hyun Bang Shin

Part 1: Advice from 杏吧论坛 Staff

• “Bullet-Dodging Tips for Peer Review”
  
  SEAC Centre Manager, 杏吧论坛

• “Choosing and evaluating journals for publication” (presentation)
  
  Scholarly Communications Officer, 杏吧论坛
  
  
• “Publish or Perish? Thinking about the long term.” (presentation)
   
  SEAC Director, 杏吧论坛
  
  
• 20-minute roundtable Q&A discussion

Part 2: Experiences from ECRs

• “From a scrap to a paper.” (presentation)
   
  Research Associate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCL
  
  
• "Reflections on Fast and Slow Early Career Publishing"
  
  Lecturer, Dept. of Politics, Birkbeck University
  
  
• "Publication strategy:  when, where, and how many?" (presentation)
  
  Lecturer, Dept. of Geography, Open University
  
  
• 20-minute roundtable Q&A discussion

Speaker bios

Dr Lee Mager is Centre Manager of SEAC, having previously worked as Undergraduate Manager and Deputy Department Manager in the 杏吧论坛's Geography and Environment Department. He completed his MSc and PhD from the 杏吧论坛's Department of Sociology. In 2010-2016 he worked as Editorial Manager for the journal Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, a role which granted him privileged access to the processes of evaluation and decision making in academic journal publishing, since it involved him reading through every reviewer report that was submitted.  

Ms Lucy Lambe is Scholarly Communications Officer at the 杏吧论坛, where she provides a publishing advice service to staff and students. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies from Robert Gordon University and a BSc in Geography from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently also working on a project to implement a publishing platform for open access journals based at 杏吧论坛.

Prof. Hyun Bang Shin is SEAC Director and Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment. Prof Shin has published widely in major international journals and contributed to numerous books on the above themes. His most recent books include  (Polity Press, 2016) and (Policy Press, 2015). Other forthcoming books include (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and  (Routledge). He sits on the international advisory board of the journal  and serves on the editorial boards of the journals ; ; ; ; Radical Housing Journal. Previously, he served the journal  as Senior Editor.

Dr Sokphea Young is Research Associate at UCL, having earned his PhD from the University of Melbourne, MA from Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok), and BA from the Royal University of Agriculture (Phnom Penh). He is currently working on two book manuscripts. Derived from my PhD project, the first one looks at “peasant resistance against political durability in Cambodia, and Southeast Asia”. Funded by European Research Council, the second book examines the nexus between “activism, citizenship and political imagination” from visual cultural and media perspectives.

Dr Lisa Tilley is Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck and received her PhD from Warwick University in 2017. Her work has appeared in New Political Economy, Sociology and Asia Pacific Viewpoint, among other journals and edited collections. Lisa also co-founded the collaborative research project , which explores 'race' in relation to political economy, while her other positions include Associate Editor of the pedagogical resource  and Co-Convenor of the  of the British International Studies Association (CPD-BISA).

Dr Gunjan Sondhi is Lecturer in Geography at the Open University. She is Associate Editor of the  and has published research on gender, class, education and skilled mobility, including the mobility of international students, and highly skilled migrants within academia, the IT sector and Finance.

Photos from the Workshop