Get involved now with the new International Journal for Researcher Development

07 September 2009

By Denise Dear

Have you ever thought of producing an article about your development work, do you have interesting case studies, examples of successful or disastrous training sessions, do you have an interest in being involved in publishing? If so this is  to alert you to a fringe session which we have arranged for the International Journal for Researcher Development at the Vitae conference at the University of Warwick – this is on the 8th September 5.00-5.35p.m – venue tba..  We shall be discussing our progress to date and looking forward to receiving your views on how to best take the journal forward in the next year.
Progress and getting involved - International Journal for Researcher Development
Presenter: Dr Denise Dear
Job title: Academic Development Consultant
Institution: University of Cambridge

Outline: At Vitae's first conference in September 2008, a fringe meeting took place regarding the possible creation for an on-line, peer-reviewed, not-for-profit journal on researcher development. It was here that over 20 Universities thrashed out the beginnings of IJRD - the International Journal for Researcher Development - http://www.researcherdevelopmentjournal.org/. Since then, we have managed to develop an on-line journal using the Scholarly Exchange software which is part of the Public Knowledge Project for development of knowledge sharing environments http://pkp.sfu.ca/, put together a posse of reviewers and Associate Editors and have been most fortunate in Professor Nigel Thrift agreeing to join the editorial board. The first issue was published in April and has been very well received. This fringe session will enable current and would-be contributors to the journal to meet and formulate an action plan for the future direction and growth of the journal.
I do hope you will be able to come along and share your views and offers of involvement with us.
Hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Denise Dear
Editorial manager, IJRD