Responding to reviewers
When we finally didn’t get an outright rejection for the EMULSION paper, we then had the task of responding to the comments that the reviewers had given. For the most part it’s a case...
Category: Early Career Researchers
The blog posts that may be of interest to early career researchers.
The peer review process
As an early career researcher, feedback from reviewers can feel like a bit of punch in the stomach. You pour your heart and soul into your research and negative feedback from reviewers can therefore...
The waiting…
One you’ve submitted your article it is a waiting game. I totally appreciate it takes time to send the article out to reviewers, for them to read and consider the article, to write comments,...
Preparing your article for submission
Wouldn’t it be nice if all submission guidelines were the same? If you thought that preparing one manuscript was all you had to do, and send this off to each of the editors then...
Getting published
As a researcher, it’s important to get your work published. It’s only at this point, that your work truly has value as it can now be communicated and considered for impact in the real...
Selecting your journal for publication
The process of publication should really start when your research project starts. By virtue of setting out your stall about what your research is hoping to achieve, you should start thinking about who might...
Unlicensed Medicines Guideline Analysis Published
The full paper for our Unlicensed Medicines Guideline Analysis was published in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice in January 2018. The article is available in full on the journal website. You can find...
NVivo Training, QSR International
The course attended was ‘Nvivo training for Windows’ – it took place in London and lasted for 2 days in December 2014. From Gemma’s perspective So although this was the first piece of training...
Research Governance Approval – Secondary Care
From Lindsay: This was quite a lengthy process and took a little while to complete. As Gemma has already said organisation is key, when I knew that the study had been granted the funding...
Research Governance Approval – Primary Care
In our case, the person who coordinated our research governance approval in primary care sat within the North of England Commissioning Support Unit but this has now been transferred as part of the new...