Doctoral Discussions: Viva Event!

The Research Hive is proud to present the Doctoral Discussions event on Viva!

 

Anxious about how to defend your thesis? Interested in getting the best tips for surviving your PhD viva? The Sussex Research Hive is here to help you out with all your viva-related questions! Come along to the last session in the Research Hive's Doctoral Discussions series to hear from fellow researchers and share experiences. 

 

We're looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday 2nd June, 12.30-2pm, in Fulton 107.

 

Free lunch provided! 

 

Book your place via Study Direct today!

 

 

Doctoral Discussions: Collaboration Event

The Research Hive is proud to present the third session of our Doctoral Discussions series on Collaboration!

Want to know what the benefits of collaborating in your research could be? Unsure about the practicalities of managing or setting up an academia collaboration? Interested in how you might collaborate with a group or institution outside of academia?

The Sussex Research Hive is here to help you out with all your collaboration-related questions! Come along to the third session in the Research Hive's Doctoral Discussions series to hear from fellow researchers and share experiences. 

We're looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday 15th April, 12.30-2pm, in Pevensey 1, Room 2D11. Free lunch provided! 

 

Book your place via Study Direct today!  

March in the Hive

March has been really productive for the Research Hive! Here are the things we’ve done and are planning to do until the event of the month:

Doctoral Discussions event on Teaching

Doctoral Discussions is a series of peer-support sessions on topics that are particularly relevant to PhD students and researchers, and this one was all about Teaching! Doctoral students and researchers from all around the campus came along to share tips and experiences on how to be an effective and confident tutor. We do believe that people got well informed and enjoyed a lively and useful discussion. Next Doctoral Discussions event topic: Collaboration - we’ll keep you updated for that one!

Wellbeing Week - Origami Hour

That was a great one! As part of the Wellbeing Week on campus (March 9th-13th), we put up an event on how to make Origami. We found out that folding paper can be quite challenging but much fun at the same time. We’ve managed to create some really nice designs (a few of them look pretty professional) and decorated the Hive. You can have a look at our creations in the Hive during this week, plus we’ve left plenty of origami paper and designs on the tables for you to give it a go too! Check all the Wellbeing Week events here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/wellbeing/newsandevents/wellfair

Hive zen

Shut Up & Write session

Last but not least, our Shut Up & Write session is planned for the 13th of this month (this Friday), 2-4pm, in the Quiet Room of the Meeting House. February’s sessions proved very productive for all of us who were there, so don’t miss the chance for a real productivity boost this month! Join our special Shut Up & Write facebook group for more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1568896606700249/

As always, we’re more than happy to receive questions, suggestions, and blog pieces from anyone that’s interested in the research community at Sussex, so keep in touch through our social media pages or send us an email to researchhive@sussex.ac.uk

Thanks to all that came along to our Teaching event!

Thanks to everyone who made it to our Doctoral Discussions event on Teaching yesterday. We believe it was a great lively discussion full of interesing insights, useful advice, and experiences on teaching shared by both the speakers and the audience.

Our wonderful speakers, Alastair Gray from Philosophy, Stella Georgiadou from Politics, and Boidurjo Rick Mukhopadhyay from Business and Management, all Doctoral Researchers and Associate Tutors at Sussex, covered several topics regarding teaching, such as how to build confidence as a tutor, how to improve your marking and feedback, and how to teach small groups in an effective way. 

From left to right, our speakers Rick, Stella, and Alastair.

The questions from the audience were focused also on how to teach a subject that is outside your frame of expertise, how to deal with diversity and different group dynamics in seminars, and how to keep the class discussion at a level which everyone can follow.

Here's the session recording for those of you who couldn't make it and would like to learn some useful tips from fellow researchers: 
https://matterhorn-presentation.uscs.susx.ac.uk/engage/ui/embed.html?id=17d7f86a-1395-48ea-becc-7dcd32e7e83e
 
Stay tuned for the upcoming Hive events!

Fold away stress with Origami Hour!

We all know that working as a researcher can take its toll, so as part of the University's Wellbeing Week the Research Hive is hosting Origami Hour: a chance shake up your routine, learn a new skill and focus on something a bit different for a change.

Join us in the Sussex Research Hive from 3-4pm on Monday 9th March and spend some quality time with other researchers discovering the theraputic benefits of paper folding. Materials and instructions to create some simple origami objects will be provided, and while none of us are experts ourselves, the Hive Research Scholars will be on hand to try and help if you get stuck.

If you would like to you can also use your creations to anonymously vent how you're feeling about your work. We suggest that you write any hopes, dreams and asprations you have about your research career on the wings of a crane (so they can take flight!) and any fears and worries on a little boat (so they can sail off into the distance...)

Although the event is on Monday, we'll be leaving the paper and instructions in the Hive for the whole week, so please feel free to pop in and add to the collection or use them as a way of taking a ten minute break from work.

You'll be very welcome to take anything you make with you, but if you do want to leave them behind we'll put them up on string and use them to brighten up the Hive for a little while. We're expecting it'll look like this by the end of the week...

The Hive's new zen look

Doctoral Discussions Event on Teaching

Are you coming to our second Doctoral Discussion? This one's all about teaching, so if you're faced with the challenges of teaching for the first time, or want to improve on your current skills then this is for you!

The speakers will be other PhD students and early career researchers with experience in the area, and there will be plenty of opportunity for everyone to share experiences, ask questions and pick up tips.

'Doctoral Discussions: Teaching' will be held 12.30-2pm on Monday March 2nd in Silverstone B325.

Lunch will be provided and it's all completely free, all you need to do is book a place on Study Direct: https://direct.sussex.ac.uk/login.php?page=staff_development_booking_form&trail=student_training_courses&ac=47781

February in the Hive

As term starts to take its toll we’ve got a few bits and bobs on to help you slog through the last of Winter!

Love tweets

As Valentine’s Day approaches we think it’s time for us all to make a declaration of love. Sure, any relationship is hard, it has its stresses and its ups and downs, but let’s face it: none of us are ready to quit on our significant others just yet. There’s a reason we’re all still here and it’s because deep down, we love them.

So declare it to the world! (Well, us.) Throughout February tell us why you love your PhD @sussexreshive and include the hashtag #lovemyphd. We want to know what makes you two tick, and we’ll share the love by retweeting you to our followers.

February Shut Up and Write

As always, Shut Up and Write will be here to rescue you from procrastination on the 13^th of the month, 2-4pm in the Quiet Room in the Meeting House.

It's a great way of removing distractions and getting some words down on the page: after a chat and a hot drink everyone sits down, shuts up and gets on with it! You’ll benefit from the collective silence and focus, and the knowledge that someone next to you might be able to see that tumblr of cute cat pictures over your shoulder…

Shut Up and Write will be run by one of our Hive Scholars, and tea, coffee and snacks are provided. Come along, all researchers are welcome!

Remind yourself by signing up to our facebook event here, and don't forget to invite your friends - the more the merrier!

We want you!

Could you contribute to our blog? Whether you’re at Sussex or not, and no matter what your research is on, if you’ve got something you think researchers would like to read we want to publish it! Or if you have your own research blog, perhaps you'd like a wider reach for a particular post? We can help!

We’re also always happy to hear from you, and take suggestions about the sort of thing you’d like to read on here so drop us a line on researchhive@sussex.ac.uk, twitter, facebook, or pop a note in our suggestions box.


Doctoral Discussions: Teaching
This event is just peeping through into March, but we’re all looking forward to Spring anyway and thought a little advanced warning wouldn't go amiss…
The next event in our highly successful Doctoral Discussions series will be 12.30-2pm on Monday 2^nd of March in Silverstone B325.
Faced with the challenges of teaching for the first time? Interested in developing strong communication skills? Come along to 'Doctoral Discussions: Teaching' to hear from fellow researchers, share experiences and pick up tips.
Lunch will be provided and it's all completely free! Just sign in to Sussex Direct and then sign up here.

January Starters Welcome Event Sum Up

It was great to see lots of January PhD starters in the Doctoral School Welcome Event yesterday!

The session took place at the Library and it included a lot of interesting talks from people that work for a wide range of services offered to the research community at Sussex.

The event kicked off with Paul Roberts, Assistant Director of the Doctoral School, who welcomed the new researchers and presented the Researcher Development programme: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/doctoralschool/internal/researcherdev/. Paul also introduced to the new students the Researcher Led Initiative Fund, which is generously provided by the Doctoral School in an attempt to support research staff and doctoral researchers in organising and running their own development events and activities.

Camilla Briault, Head of Research Student Administration, gave a very informative speech on how the Doctoral School can help you with any admin enquiries during your PhD studies. Also, Danny Weddup, Student Life Advisor, made the new researchers familiar with the services offered by the Student Life Centre. 

Bethany Logan, Research Support Supervisor, spoke about the support services provided by the Library to the PhD students and researchers at the University of Sussex. These include various training workshops, seminars, and events that can help you get the most out of your PhD experience and engage with the research community on campus: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/research. In the end of the session, Jay Culligan, one of the Hive Scholars for this year, shared his experiences regarding the PhD process and pointed out some very useful tips for first-year PhD students. His reflections on 'what he wished he'd know in his first year' will be up to this blog soon!

The event ended up with the new researchers and Hive scholars having some very lively discussions while enjoying a few free drinks at Falmer Bar.

We'd like to thank you all for showing up yesterday and we do hope to see you again soon! Don't forget to keep up to date with our exciting upcoming events through our blog and social media pages.

If you have any questions or you'd like to contribute to this blog, drop us a line to researchhive@sussex.ac.uk. We're always interested in new ideas!

REVIEW! Doctoral Discussions: Conferences and Networking

By Cassandra Wiener

The launch of the Sussex Hive Scholars’ new seminar series ‘Doctoral Discussions’ kicked off to a lively start last Friday with the inaugural session focusing on Conferences and Networking. Billed as ‘an exciting new series of peer led discussions on the things you need to succeed with research’ it was, actually, just that…

I arrived not at all sure what to expect – but was grateful to be greeted with a sandwich and some friendly reassurance from Lana Harper, (2^nd year English PhD student) Sussex Hive Scholar and our Chair for the session.  She introduced the afternoon’s three speakers: Michael Rowland (3rd year English PhD), speaking on ‘Giving a Conference Paper’; Elena Gorianova (2nd year Politics PhD), speaking on ‘Networking’ and Simon Davies (Postdoctoral Associate Tutor, English) speaking on ‘Organising a Conference’. I will run through the gist of each presentation – but if there are issues you are particularly interesting in, you might decide you would prefer to listen to the live recording of the event, which you can listen to here. If you have any questions, you can message the Research Hive scholars at researchhive@sussex.ac.uk.

Giving a Conference Paper

Conferences are something that we are all aware we need to engage with at some point, but the idea of presenting at one can strike fear into the heart of even the most confident early stage researcher.  Michael began by outlining his own experience – which was extensive – but his unassuming approach put us all immediately at ease. In fact, the best and most useful thing about this presentation, from my perspective, was that he answered all of the questions that I have never dared ask for fear that I should know the answer.  From the ‘standard’ length of a conference paper (twenty minutes), to whether or not you should read aloud (check with the conference organisers as different disciplines have different approaches), to how to ‘pitch’ your language (think about your audience’s background and experience): all of it was helpful.  Michael spoke for about ten minutes and then we had a number of lively debates and discussions; with everyone feeling able to chip in with detail from their own experiences, which gave the topic a helpfully multi-disciplinary dimension.

Networking

Elena spoke frankly about some of the difficulties generated by even a discussion on the topic of ‘networking’: clearly it is a necessary skill, and yet we are all – curiously? – ‘squeamish’ about the fact that we need to be able to do it.  At its most basic, ‘networking’ is simply about making the most of the opportunities for building up a helpful network of contacts across our discipline that come our way. Elena’s talk raised some interesting insights nevertheless.  Have you ever thought about whether or not to approach a group of people who are already chatting, for example?  If the group is already made up of four or more participants you could be wasting your time.  Similarly, if the group is ‘closed’ in appearance, key indicators being body language and geographical positioning, your interruption might be disruptive rather than productive.  The question and discussion session after Elena’s presentation brought up some agonising dilemmas – for example, how do you ‘exit’ gracefully if you have been stuck talking to the same person for too long?  Or – how do you mollify anti-social colleagues who view your burgeoning networking skills with suspicion? There were no easy answers but we enjoyed asking the questions…

Organising a Conference

As Lana introduced Simon she warned us that he had agreed to step in at the last moment and might therefore not have had much time to prepare. Her worries turned out to be misplaced as Simon managed to impart an impressive amount of practical information in a short space of time. He talked us through the various stages of conference management, beginning with the conference website and finishing with the all important conference dinner.  Key to the whole process is dealing with things in the right order: website and plenary speakers first (because your Call for Papers needs to direct interested people to an informative site) deal with catering and room arrangements while you wait for papers (they will arrive, but only at the last minute), choose Chairs once you have speakers, and Amazon is good for anything the university can’t supply…

I had to leave promptly and so missed the final part of the discussion – people looked quite happy to settle in to finish the coffee and sandwiches and continue to swap stories and suggestions. The next session is called 'Doctoral Discussions: Teaching' and will take place on March 2^nd in Silverstone SB325. If you login to Sussex Direct in a different tab then you can sign up for it here. See you there!

Doctoral Discussions: Conferences and Networking

Here at the Hive we're launching an exciting new series of peer-led sessions on the things that you need to succeed in research. Enter: Doctoral Discussions!

Doctoral Discussions events are a great way of finding out the things you want to know about from other knowledgeable researchers who've already been there. Learn from other peoples' experiences, find out what to expect, ask questions and pick up great tips.

The first session is on Conferences and Networking, and it will be held on Friday 23rd January from 12.30pm-2pm in the Barlow Gallery, Library Ground Floor.

There will even be a free lunch provided! All you need to do is login to your Sussex Direct account and sign up here. Look forward to seeing you all there!

January in the Hive: events, air events and romantic temperaments!

Welcome back everyone! We hope you had a lovely break and are ready to reinvigorate your research. And if not, we have just the thing…

Events

January Shut Up and Write!

It’s that time again! On the 13^th of every month from 2pm-4pm in the Meeting House’s Quiet Room, the Hive runs Shut Up and Write.

The ideas is to remove distractions, stop procrastinating and benefit from collective silence and focus. After a quick chat, a biscuit and cup of coffee everyone will shut up and get on with it!

So bring your laptop, bring other researchers, and bring your word count up!

There’s no need to book, just turn up. There’s a facebook event if you want to click attending to remind yourself, and do invite other researchers to spread the word!

Doctoral Discussions: Conferences & Networking

Ever wondered how to get the most out of a conference? Interested in learning how to organise your own conference? The Sussex Research Hive is here to help you out with all your conference and networking-related questions! Come along to the first session of the Research Hive's Doctoral Discussions series to hear from fellow researchers and share experiences. Friday 23rd January in the Barlow Gallery, Library Ground Floor from 12.30-2pm. Lunch will be provided.

Air vents

We’re really sorry that the Hive has been so chilly recently! We’ve had a few requests for heaters in the suggestions box, but unfortunately it’s a problem with the central heating throughout the library rather than just the Hive. Engineers are currently fitting a new pump and the heat should come through again soon, but we'll keep you updated with any further developments.

Romantic temperaments

It must be something about the time of year that’s meant we’ve had quite an increase of notes popped in our Hive suggestion box recently. And while we’re sorting out the heating as quickly as we can as per your pleas, it seemed rude not to say thank you to the researcher who declared their undying love for the library staff and security. We can’t live without you either, mystery admirer!

And there must be something in the air, because some romantic soul decided to tell us that the Hive is ‘a wonderful place where I met a wonderful woman’. Daww.

Make us smile by keeping your thoughts and suggestions about the Hive coming! You can email us at researchhive@sussex.ac.uk, tweet us @sussexreshive or drop us a facebook message, but as the suggestions box showed this week, nothing beats a handwritten note!

Thank you all for joining our Festive Event!

It was a great pleasure to see so many Sussex Doctoral researchers at the Doctoral School and Research Annual Hive Festive event on Thursday December 11th. Researchers across all departments and disciplines came along to meet up with many other like-minded people through our innovative Hive Bingo Card Quiz, enjoy the christmas atmosphere and treat themselves with some lovely mulled wine and minced pies.

In the end of the event, we announced our Blog Competition winner who gets a £50 voucher: Simon F. Davies from the School of English was the lucky one, whose name was picked randomly out of a hat. His tips on how to submit an article to an academic journal were much appreciated. Read his blog post here: 

http://sussexresearchhive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/academic-journals-tips-for-submission.html

We'd also like to thank the rest of the people who submitted such interesting blog posts and contributed to the Hive blog this term: 

Maria Kirk, School of English, 'On being a PhD student and a new parent': http://sussexresearchhive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/on-being-phd-student-and-new-parent.html

Diarmuid Hester, School of English, 'Zen and the art of doctoral research': http://sussexresearchhive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/zen-and-art-of-doctoral-research.html

Zoe Strimpel, School of History, 'Navigating the amazingly chatty world of scholarship':

http://sussexresearchhive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/navigating-amazingly-chatty-world-of.html

Nicole Mennell, School of English, 'The Art of not procrastinating':

http://sussexresearchhive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the-art-of-not-procrastinating.html

Although there's no blog competition running in the Spring term, we'd be delighted to publish blog posts written by researchers and PhD students at Sussex and beyond. The posts could be about challenges you’ve faced, tips for maintaining that elusive work-life balance, an exciting outline of your research or anything that you think would be interesting and relevant for other researchers to read. Just drop us an email at researchhive@sussex.ac.uk and your submission could be published right here on our blog.

Many exciting events and blog posts are on their way for the Spring term. Keep up to date with the latest news of the Hive by checking our blog and social media pages!

Doctoral School and Research Hive Festive Event!

Don't miss out on the Doctoral School and the Sussex Research Hive annual Festive Event on Thursday 11th December, 15:00 - 17:00, at the Quiet Room, Meeting House. Get to know your colleagues, make new friends, and talk about your research with like-minded individuals.

This event is for all doctoral researchers at Sussex and is designed for you to get to know one another in a relaxed, informal setting. Meet other doctoral researchers from various departments, discuss things that you genuinely find interesting and have a festive drink (or two) and some mince pies on us!

Apps for Researchers

By Jay Culligan

            The Sussex Hive Scholars were proud to present a panel of three distinguished speakers, with recognized skill and knowledge with applications in and out of academia. These panelists discussed various phone, tablet, and computer based apps, which may bolster productivity and efficiency, or simplify the daily grind in doctoral research. I will discuss the general outline of each app presented, with the benefits and drawbacks of each app the presenters discussed. At the end of each section, you will find direct links to each app. If you'd rather listen to the live recording of our event, you can check it out here! Of course, if you have any questions, the Hive scholars are more than happy to work with you. Just contact us at sussexresearchhive@sussex.ac.uk!

Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Zotero, and Mendeley

Our first presenter, Andres Guadamuz, a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, focused his presentation on the cloud services apps and referencing programs.

            Cloud devices allow students to store their work online. This makes work easily accessible and conveniently placed to quickly access files from any internet-connected device. Cloud devices do not possess the highest security, so they are not suitable for any sensitive material (check out the guidance on storing your research on the Library’s data management pages). This does not detract from the ability to share information quickly with individuals or groups of researchers or the ability to store gigabytes of information, free of charge. Andres suggested the use of Microsoft OneDrive and Drop Box; however many such programs exist.

            Referencing is a staple task in the researcher’s life. Many researchers are familiar with the applications Andres suggested, including EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley, however Andres expounds on the accessibility and simplicity of each of these apps. Andres favors Mendeley due to its ability to automatically synchronize across multiple devices from one account. It also provides a free gigabyte of library storage to access articles, photos, or other relevant work at no charge.

            Users favoring Zotero need not worry. Andres recommended other extensions to these citation programs, such as Papership, which combines resources from Zotero and Mendely into a convenient application. For an additional £2, this service will provide pdf-editing software, for those not wanting to pay for the Adobe programs. Other useful extensions include Scanner for Zotero, which allows you to take a picture of a book’s ISBN. Scanner for Zotero then finds the relevant citation information and stores it on Zotero.

Microsoft OneDrive: https://onedrive.live.com/

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/

Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/

Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/

PaperShip: http://www.papershipapp.com/

Andres Guadamuz

 Hootsuite, Feedly, Evernote

            Our second panelist, Catherine Pope, was awarded her PhD in English Literature in June 2014 and also works as a digital skills trainer (The Digital Researcher). She has published several ebooks on useful apps in Evernote, Zotero, and Scrivener. Her presentation focused on applications for managing social network sites, blog search, and archiving.

            Social networking sites have spread across all disciplines and have become an easy way to gain valuable, immediate insight into current events in research. Sorting out relevant information from other feeds can be difficult, as a single account usually subscribes to wide ranging interests. Fortunately, Catherine informed us of a Twitter application called Hootsuite. This free or pay to upgrade program can divide twitter into specific feeds to cater to individual needs. Multiple specific feeds can be viewed simultaneously, across multiple Twitter accounts.

            Blogs have become a novel way to peek into the minds of contemporary thinkers, writers, and discover trending topics and ideas in any field. Finding the right blog to follow can be difficult. One app, Feedly, will assist you with your search. This app will even export and share your newly discovered blogs with Facebook, Hootsuite, or other media sites.

            Zotero and Mendeley can be useful programs to store directly relevant articles or journal entries, however they lack the depth and broad range of depositing all your information across a wide range of media. Evernote can help. This app serves as a repository for all your media needs, while also allowing you to mark, edit, and work on your doctoral media in an all-in-one program. Evernote can automatically read text from a picture, allow you to capture notes, webpages, books, documents, audio and video onto one central program. The service also provides storage for journal articles with the ability to annotate articles, displaying only the highlighted text to quickly access the most relevant information. Oddly enough, you can even store individual tweets and blog posts to Evernote. There is a free version and an option to pay to upgrade for even  more functionality.

Hootsuite: https://hootsuite.com/

Feedly: http://feedly.com/#welcome

Evernote: https://evernote.com/

Our three panelists: Miroslav Batchkarov (left), 

Catherine Pope (center), and Andres Guadamuz (right)

Lyx

            Our third presenter, Miroslav Batchkarov, a PhD researcher in Informatics discussed the advantages of the word processor Lyx. Creating publish-worthy, organized, and set papers can be tedious and problematic using Microsoft Word. Lyx offers the simple user-friend interface of word with rigid constraints on formatting for easier typesetting. This program is great for inputting equations and easily works on all operating systems, including Linux.

            When you are finished constructing your document, Lyx can generate a pdf format of the document, without losing any of the formatting differences found in Word. This program works seamlessly with any citation program, using the BibTex exportation to easily insert the citations list onto your document. As an added bonus, Lyx can also do presentations.

Lyx: www.lyx.org

Miroslav Batchkarov

'Apps for Researchers' Hive Event

Ever wonder how Apps can benefit your research? The Sussex Research Hive invites you to attend our “Apps for Researchers” event, as part of Mobile Technologies Week: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/about/projects/mtw

Nowadays researchers need not be tied to their desk. There are a growing number of tools available on mobile phone and tablets that will make your research life easier. Our panellists will discuss how phone and computer apps can be useful tools for doctoral researchers and will go through some of the top research-oriented apps in the market. 

These presentations will follow with an informal discussion which will be a great opportunity to share experiences and suggest your own favourite apps. Tea/coffee and snacks will be provided!

Reserve your space through Sussex Direct today!

Hive Welcome Event 2014!

Come along to the first event of the Hive Calendar!

The Welcome Event will be a fun and informal gathering which will introduce you to the Hive Scholars and your fellow researchers, let you know more about what we do, and give you the opportunity to ask questions and make suggestions about what you'd like to see from the Hive in future.

Then we'll head over to IDS Bar for some free drinks, snacks and a pub quiz with fabulous prizes! Don't miss it!

Meet in the Hive at 4pm on Thursday 9th October.

How to get your article published

On Thursday the 19^th of July, the Research Hive invited Rosie Sheridan and Ed Moffat, two publishers from SAGE, to discuss issues relating to publishing in academic journals. Publishing is a salient subject for researchers, especially in the current climate of research excellence. The two speakers talked about metrics and how to evaluate which journal is more likely to maximise the impact of one's work. They also talked about the more practical nuances of submitting on academic journals, such as following the journal guidelines, proofreading, cover letters and, of course, following the academic conventions of writing. They further discussed copyright and ethical issues, as well as how to handle revisions. After the end of the presentation, the audience got to ask questions and the presenters got the opportunity to provide clarifications. Most of the questions were concerned with the conflict that may arise from submitting the same article to different journals and with intellectual property rights.