Last week’s workshop on ‘Academic Writing, Publishing & Collaborating’ held at Talbot Campus organised by Mrs. Anjana Paudyal, Ph.D. student in FHSS (Faculty of Health & Social Sciences) was very engaging and very well attended. This event was part of the Doctoral College’s Research Culture and Community workshop series. The workshop was opened by Anjana, who spoke about publishing her first PhD paper in the first half year of her part-time PhD journey.
Key sessions in this interactive workshop included presentations from Ms. Jillian Ireland based at UHD (University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust) and academics based at BU. Jillian spoke about her experience of publishing in practice journals as well as publishing papers about practice in academic journals.
Whilst Dr. Pramod Regmi, Principal Academic in International Health in FHSS stressed the importance of paying attention to publishing metrics and identifiers, including h-factors, impact factors, and social media use in academic publishing.
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen, Research Culture Champion in FHSS outlined ideas for turning PhD chapters in papers and he also highlighted BU’s unique option of doing a so-called ‘Integrated thesis‘. The integrated thesis format allows students to incorporate papers into their thesis. These can be published papers, papers accepted for publication, papers submitted, prepared but not submitted papers and other unpublished
papers or reports.
Dr. Orlanda Harvey is a senior lecturer in Social Work at BU, specialising in Developing Professional Relationships and Leadership, she presented replying to reviewers. The Question & Answer session was lively and engaging.
Last, but not least, Anjana Paudyal, the organiser, and presenters would like to thank the Doctoral College for supporting this important event!


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