The Association offers a series of courses in support of developing quality publishing and reviewing practices. These are governed by the Learning and Development Committee.
Foundations of Academic Journal Editing
This course is designed to provide foundational theoretical knowledge and practical skills to develop effective academic journal editing practices. Understanding quality markers used to evaluate a manuscript from an editor perspective will support academics to design research projects and ensure author submissions meet journal expectations.
This course comprises three modules spaced out over a three month period, with a final month for completing an optional credential assessment, or approximately 50 hours AQF level 8 volume of learning.
Why Learn About Journal Editing?
Academic disciplines and communities rely on prepared, experienced, and capable editors who can manage a publication process that compasses an initial (desktop) review, managing a peer review process and communicating information and decisions to authors.
Effective academic journal editing requires a specific set of skills and knowledge, beyond those that are developed through academic research and teaching in a disciplinary context. An academic journal editor’s role can be described as process manager and scholarship custodian. The academic editor function is responsible for ensuring a system of peer review and communicating results to ensure publication of research that is scholarly, ethical and contributes to knowledge.
Module 1. Foundations of Academic Journal Editing Roles
Participants are introduced to each of the foundation activities of the academic journal editor role: review, peer reviewer management, communicating feedback and decisions to authors. The module includes a historical perspective to identify and discuss the purpose of each activity and its contribution to reliable knowledge dissemination.
Module 2. Managing Quality Peer Review
Participants are introduced to common systems of peer review, including methods for ensuring integrity of decision-making on whether a manuscript is ready to be published. This includes quality considerations related to recruiting reviewers, providing training and guidance to reviewers, and evaluating peer review reports.
Module 3. Communicating Decisions Through Letters
Participants will learn strategies for writing constructive editor decision letters. Participants will apply knowledge and skills from Modules 1 and 2. They will critically examine a sample manuscript submission and associated peer review reports. They will write additional editorial feedback designed to support authors to revise and resubmit a manuscript that effectively responds to reviewer feedback.
Dr Joseph Crawford is an award-winning educator, researcher, and entrepreneur currently working at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Dr Crawford publishes on leadership, higher education, and organisational psychology, and has more than 3,000 citations since 2019. Dr Crawford has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice since 2020. This Journal, with his editorial leadership has increased from Scopus CiteScore of 1.1 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2022, while sustainably increasing number of accepted publications from 146 (2017-2020) to 253 (2019-2022). He has trained 100s of currently serving editors. Recently, he published an editorial proposing an editorial decision framing, and draws on this framework in this course.
Dr Jo-Anne Kelder designs and delivers SOTL capability training through Jo-Anne Kelder Consulting, and is an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania. Dr Kelder is nationally recognised in learning and teaching with involvement in the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, national Office of Learning and Teaching programs, and she was awarded a Joint Fellowship by the Australian Council of Deans of Science (2019). She has served in diverse editor roles across the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, and an inaugural Co-Editor for HERDSA’s new journal, Advancing Scholarship and Research in Higher Education
The course commences from 10 August 2023, and the final workshop is held prior to 10 November 2023. The latest assessment due date is 15 January 2024. The course comprises:
- Digital narrative materials
- Monthly Zoom workshops
- Credential assessment (optional)
The course is priced at $750, and bulk discounts are available.
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Foundations of Academic Peer Review
This course is designed to provide the underlying theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to critically review and examine a manuscript a scholar is invited to peer review. This included developing core competency in evaluating quality of a manuscript from a reviewer’s perspective, and developing critical and meaningful feedback for progressing quality knowledge.
This course comprises three modules spaced out over a three month period, with a final month for completing an optional credential assessment, or approximately 50 hours AQF level 8 volume of learning.
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The course commences from 10 March 2024, and the final workshop is held prior to 10 July 2024. The latest assessment due date is 15 December 2024. The course comprises:
- Digital narrative materials
- Monthly Zoom workshops
- Credential assessment (optional)
The course is priced at $750, and bulk discounts are available.