Academic Publishing in the Social Sciences 2019
  • December 19, 2019
  • ULAB Department of English and Humanities House 56, Road 4A, Dhanmondi, 1209 Dhaka, Bangladesh.

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh is going to organize a workshop on Academic Publishing in the Social Sciences: Bibliometrics and the Illusions of Impact.

Under the persistence of the publish-or-perish ethic, and working within an increasingly neoliberal environment, academics working in higher education are constantly faced with the pressure of producing and disseminating scholarly work in journals, books and other academic outlets. Higher education institutions, on the other hand, depend on scholarly publications from their academic staff to secure funding for teaching, research and development. To add even more pressure, numbers are not sufficient any more as governments, funding bodies and other stakeholders in higher education place more and more emphasis on quality publications in prestige, high-ranking journals and publishers.

However, the real impact is hard to measure, more so, given the prevalence of various new media in current times that novice researchers get trapped into and make the wrong choices. This presentation explains basic bibliometrics that can be used to compare the prestige value of journals and then positions these against altmetrics and other ways of measuring impact. The presentation ends with a discussion on some of the practicalities in choosing a suitable topic and the right journal and tips on how to increase the chances of acceptance by reviewers.

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ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Dr Raqib Chowdhury taught English literature in the Department of English, the University of Dhaka from 1997 to 2004 and then joined the Monash Faculty of Education as academic in 2009 upon completing his PhD from Monash in 2008. Raqib is an author of Desiring TESOL and International Education: Market Abuse and Exploitation (Multilingual Matters, 2014). His latest books are Engaging in Educational Research: Revisiting Policy and Practice in Bangladesh (Springer, 2018), Equity, Identity and Social Justice in Asia Pacific Education (Monash University Publishing, 2019), and Transformation and Empowerment through Education (Routledge, 2019). He is currently co-authoring a monograph entitled The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics of Intervention and Control (Routledge, 2020 – upcoming). Originally from Dhaka, Raqib has been living in Australia with his family for almost 20 years.

Location:

Bangladesh

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Eligibilities

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Eligible Regions: Bangladesh

Application Process

On spot registration

Application Deadline: December 19, 2019

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