How can peer review help you be a better author?

Monday 22^nd April

2-3pm (SAST, GMT+2)

You’ve submitted your paper to a journal and now you’re waiting for the peer review process to run its course. How does it work, and how valuable and useful is it for you as an author? And how can you get opportunities to do peer review yourself? Join us to hear the perspectives of a journal editor and an early career researcher.

This webinar will be relevant to all those engaged in research at institutions in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. It is part of our Author Engagement Programme organised under the partnership between Wiley and the South African National Library and Information Consortium. Find out more about how this partnership personally benefits you as an author based at one of the institutions covered by this partnership: https://m.info.wiley.com/webApp/sanlic.

Learn about:

• How the peer review process works
• How peer review can make published research the best it can be
• How to get involved in doing peer review yourself

Speaker 1: Professor Karen Grimmer (Extraordinary Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University)

Karen Grimmer has worked in academia since 1995, prior to which she was a clinical physiotherapist in Australia. She was the inaugural Director of the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence, University of South Australia, from 1997-2017. She has taught graduate students and academic staff in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines and South Africa. She recently completed a 2.5 year consultancy to the WHO Covid-19 Rapid Review Group, and is joint Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice and the journal Rehabilitation Advances in Developing Health Systems. Her academic passion is capacity-building and empowerment to employ evidence to improve practices and policy. 

Speaker 2: Dr Carolyn Chisadza (Associate Professor in Economics, University of Pretoria)

Carolyn Chisadza holds a Ph.D. in Economics. Her research interests include economic growth and development with a focus on inequality, institutions and conflict within Africa. Her research papers have appeared in top academic journals, such as Economics Letters, the Journal of Development Studies, and Environment, Development and Sustainability to name a few. She is currently an AfOx (Africa Oxford Initiative) visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford where she is working on research related to frictions within societies.

Moderator: Michael Willis (Senior Solutions Manager, Wiley)

Michael has worked in publishing for nearly 25 years. He champions the needs and aspirations of editors, reviewers and authors within journal editorial and peer review processes, advising and speaking on research integrity, publishing ethics, diversity, equity and inclusion, and researcher behaviour. Michael is content and delivery lead for the Wiley-SANLiC Author Engagement Programme.