At the beginning of this year, Dr Pia Tenedero shared 10 tips to survive your PhD. As the year comes to a close, we hear from her again with reflections on academic publishing from the perspective of an early career researcher from the Global South. Take 8 minutes out of your schedule to listen to her valuable lessons centering on patience, priority, and purpose – caught up in global (knowledge) inequalities but carried forward by the imperative for hope!
As Pia says in the video, academic publishing is an insiders game. Her presentation was part of a workshop to demystify academic publishing for PhD students and early career researchers. This international workshop was hosted during the past two days by the Next Generation Literacies research network.
As academic publishing becomes increasingly subject to the gamification of metrics, Pia charges us not to lose sight of the fact that the point of publishing is sharing knowledge. Enjoy!
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I recently attended Elsevier’s (unsure if it was Elsevier or a different publisher) webinar called “Avoiding Predatory Journals for Your Research Publication,” and one thing about that is that the speaker said that one’s study’s “impact” should truly have an impact. It seems some have forgotten this and so some studies have little to no use. Dr. Tenedero’s reflections are on point!