Seeing Like a Researcher is a masterclass series led by Professor Mark Evans. The Series highlights the experience, skills, wisdom and advice of Charles Sturt’s research leaders on themes relating to research innovation and professional skills for research.
We are excited to have Distinguished Professor Geoff Gurr join us for Session 7, Publish or Perish, Publish and Thrive.
Distinguished Professor Gurr is an internationally recognised ecologist who has held academic appointments at Melbourne, New England, Sydney and Charles Sturt as well as visiting professor positions at Sydney, Lincoln University (New Zealand) and Zhejiang University and Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University (China). His work over the last three decades has focused on harmonising agriculture with the natural environment.
Collectively, Distinguished Professor Gurr’s papers have been cited well over eleven thousand times, giving a Scopus H-index of 49. In 2000 and 2021 he was named as the nation’s top cited Insects & Arthropods researcher by The Australian special reports. SciVal reports that over 91% of his publications are co-authored with international collaborators.
The aphorism ‘publish or perish’ is often used negatively, referring to the pressure on academics to publish the results of their scholarship and research. Whilst recognising that such pressures are real, this masterclass will consider the flip side: the benefits and even joys of academic publishing. Distinguished Professor Gurr will consider how to set in place an achievable plan to generate your first papers whist avoiding procrastination and constraints, and how to leverage your work to accelerate productivity without burn out. Relevant also are the practical and emotional pitfalls associated with peer review, negotiating book contracts with publishers and dealing with co-authors.
When: Wednesday 27 November
Time: 12:00-13:00 (AEST)
Register here: https://staff.csu.edu.au/researchers/research-support/researcher-development/calendar
Catch up on past Masterclasses and watch the recordings here: https://research.csu.edu.au/research-support/researcher-development/resources-recordings
See more great Masterclass topics and register for the 10 x weekly lunchtime sessions on Wednesdays from 16 Oct until 18 Dec via the Researcher Development calendar.