Books: publishing your research effectively (For PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)

Seeing your name on the spine of a book is a great achievement, which can help to kick start your career in some disciplines. How do you get there?

This session answers some of the key questions along the way, including including:

• Should you turn your thesis into a monograph?
• How do you choose a publisher?
• How do you get your proposal accepted?
• What are the key stages in the publication process?

• PhD students in HASS subjects
• Other PhD students and postdocs welcome

Number of sessions: 1

We will cover:

• How to go from thesis to monograph
• Choosing a publisher
• Writing a successful proposal
• How the publication process works

Interactive session

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• Please bring your own internet-enabled device to this session

One session of one hour

Once a term

• Open research and open minds: a Cambridge perspective on sharing research outputs (for PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
• Copyright: a survival guide (for PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
• Getting started with peer review (for early career researchers and third and fourth year PhD students in STEM disciplines)
• Managing your digital information (for PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
• Post-publication sharing: publishing your research effectively (For PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
• Journals: publishing your research effectively (for PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)