A presentation given at Middlesex University's Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2016: "Unpacking Teaching Excellence

1. Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement
September 2016 Teaching and Learning Conference
How to get published
James Wisdom
Visiting Professor In Educational Development
jameswisdom@compuserve.com

2. Programme for the workshop
Starting up
Considering content and format
Finding where to publish
What are the referees looking for?
Building up experience and capacity
What needs to be written?

3. Start-up activity:
Please open a conversation with three or four
people around you, considering these questions:
What do you really want to write and publish?
Or
What would you really want to read?
(We will move on when we think most participants
have arrived…)

4. Considering content and format:
What might be the processes, and what might
be the products?
Investigation Paper
Evaluation Case study
Scholarship Article
Research Chapter
Review Report

5. Forms of evidence-informed scholarship other than research
Investigations and evaluations
Enhance our understanding of a local problem or issue, providing
recommendations for policy and/or action firmly situated in the relevant
literature
Literature reviews
Collection and analysis of literature aimed at describing the various ways
in which the object of the review is thought about and recommendations
for practice
Scholarship of teaching and learning
Evidence-based critical reflection on practice aimed at improving practice
Surveys of academic staff and student experiences of teaching and
learning
Collection and analysis of current experiences of teaching and learning
Prosser, M. (2005) Supporting the student experience, a scholarly approach.
Academy Exchange, Autumn 2005, 8-9.

6. Case Studies: should be critical reports about work
undertaken on an international, national, regional or local
basis. They are likely to include the following:
• a background scenario;
• a clear statement of the purpose of the work;
• relationship to past or current work;
• who was involved;
• what happened;
• what deductions can be made;
• a critical review of the work;
• the implications of the work reported.
Guidance for authors from Innovations in Education and
Teaching International on case studies

7. Where to publish?
The value of Research into Higher Education Abstracts
Finding journals
Finding the publishers
Other lists

9. 150 Journals, 750 abstracts each year

10. 1900+
900
2400
2000+
2000+ 

11. Taylor and Francis

13. http://www.echer.org

14. http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/ceebl/
resources/dissemination/publication_outlets.doc
(underscore between publication and outlets)

15. General Educational Journals
About Campus
Academic Exchange Quarterly
Academic Questions
Action Learning: Research and Practice
Active Learning in Higher Education
ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher
Education) Higher Education Report
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and
Practice
Australian Educational Researcher
British Educational Research Journal
British Journal of Educational Studies
Brookes eJournal of Teaching and Learning
Cambridge Journal of Education
Etc etc etc

16. Subject specific journals in Art & Design
Art, Design and Communication in Higher
Education
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
Communication Education
Communication Teacher
Design Studies
International Journal of Art and Design Education
(formerly Journal of Art and Design Education)
International Journal of Education through Art
International Journal of Technology and Design
Education
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator
Journal of Aesthetic Education
Etc.

17. https://doaj.org/
Includes, for example:
Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (STLHE)
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDHE)
OR:
Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE)
http://www.oajse.com/

18. What are referees looking for? A comparison
exercise
Between Innovations in Education and Teaching
International (published by SEDA – the Staff and
Educational Development Association)
And
Studies in Higher Education (published by SRHE - the
Society for Research into High Education)

19. Innovations in Education and Teaching International
Guidance to authors:
Contributions are welcomed on any aspect of promoting
and supporting educational change in higher and other
post-school education, with an emphasis on research,
experience, scholarship and evaluation, rather than mere
description of practice …..
As an international publication, contributors should both
contextualise and consider the transferability of the
practices and theories being examined.

20. Innovations in Education and Teaching International
Guidance to referees:
You are asked to make recommendations about the article on
one of three bases:
• accept without hesitation;
• reject without hesitation;
• requires modification.
Comments on general and specific points are most welcome
(e.g. style, coverage; rigour; statistics; relevance; contribution
to the field i.e. education, training, staff development,
educational technology).
It would be helpful if you could put your recommendations and
comments about the article on the enclosed pro-forma…..

21. Studies in Higher Education - Guidance to authors
a leading international journal publishing research-based
articles dealing with higher education issues from either a
disciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspective.
Empirical, theoretical and conceptual articles of significant
originality will be considered.
….. to enhance understanding of higher education policy,
institutional management and performance, teaching and
learning, and the contribution of higher education to society
and the economy.
Comparative studies and analysis of inter-system and
cross-national issues….. global and international themes.

22. Studies in Higher Education
Referee's report
(Please ring the most appropriate response)
How clear is the purpose of the paper? Unclear Fairly clear Very clear
How well constructed is the argument? Poorly Moderately Very well
How much does the paper add to its field? Little A moderate
amount
A great deal
To what extent will the paper appeal to this
Journal's international readership? Not at all Moderately Greatly

23. Studies in Higher Education
Please give below your overall opinion regarding
publication, and provide specific comments on a separate
sheet. Bear in mind that 'Studies’ can publish about one in
four of the papers that are submitted,
Recommendation (please tick one of the first four, or
comment against the fifth)
Publish the paper as it stands
Publish the paper with relatively minor revisions
Publish the paper only if major revisions are made in line with
referees' comments
Reject
Other (please specify)

24. Thoughts about what the referees are looking
for?
What increases or decreases the possibility of
publication?

25. Building up experience and capacity
Classroom evaluation
Module and programme research
Create a network – face to face
(The Hertfordshire question: How do we know what we
know?)
Create of a network – through social media
Writing papers for T&L Committees
Submissions and presentations to conferences
Writing for in-house journals (Middlesex Journal of
Educational Technology, or Compass at Greenwich)
Refereeing
Other suggestions?

27. The opening questions:
What do you really want to write and publish?
Or
What would you really want to read?
Student engagement and partnership
Assessment reform
New models of curriculum and course design
Widening participation and fair access
UK as a global educator
Graduate skills and employability
Any more?