International Relations

C01 - Editorial Roundtable: So you want to publish in IR?

Date: Jun 3 | Time: 08:30am to 10:00am | Location:

Chair/Président/Présidente : Liam Midzain-Gobin (Brock University)

Discussant/Commentateur/Commentatrice : Caroline Dunton (Queens University)

Publishing is central to professional success in IR. This workshop is put on by the ISA Canada Professional Development Committee, and offers an opportunity for participants to gain some insight on how best to undertake this endeavour. Instead of the typical Q&A format, graduate students and early career researchers signing up for this workshop will be paired with a faculty mentor with experience serving on editorial board of an IR/IPE/Global Development journal. The student/ECR will send in a paper before the session and during it the mentor will walk them through their review of the paper with an editorial eye. Rather than detailed feedback on empirical or theoretical parts of the paper, mentors will focus their attention on framing and contributions within the field, helping prepare the manuscript for desk and peer review. This will help young scholars better understand what journal editors who are responsible for the initial examination of papers do in order to decide whether or not to proceed to peer review, providing participants with insights as to what to expect when approaching their chosen journals as well as pointing to potential avenues for publishing their work. The workshop will be concluded by having everyone come together as a group to discuss general lessons that emerged from the group/pairing activity and how to navigate the terrain of academic publishing in IR. This segment of the workshop will broadly discuss challenges relating to publishing and strategies to overcome them.