Transferable Skills Course: Peer Review Processes

Start: Feb 23, 2022
End: Feb 24, 2022
Speaker: Martina Michalikova
Location: MPI-MG
Room: Seminar room 1
Host: Anne-Dominique Gindrat
Contact: imprs-bac@molgen.mpg.de

This interactive, practice-oriented workshop provides all the relevant know-how needed to successfully navigate the peer-review process both as a submitting author and a reviewer.

Please email imprs-bac@molgen.mpg.de to register for this course.

Course contents:
• What is peer review and how it works
• Problems with peer review and recent attempts for improvement
• How to answer reviewers‘ comments
• How to write a good peer review

The theoretical foundation is developed through discussions, trainer input and examples, and implemented in practical sessions where participants read & evaluate a peer review as well as the authors‘ response and write their own peer review to a preprint article.

The agenda is:

23rd of February 2022
09:00 - 09:30 Introduction of workshop and participants
09:30 - 10:00 What is peer review and how it works
10:00 - 10:30 Problems with peer review & recent attempts for improvement
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 How to answer reviewers’ comments
11:30 - 12:30 Practical work 1: reading & evaluating a response to reviewers
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:00 Group discussion about the responses to reviewers
14:00 - 15:00 How to write a good peer review (input, discussions, examples)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 Practical work 2: reading & evaluating peer review
16:00 - 16:30 Group discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Closing round: Q&A, homework, reflective freewriting

24th of February 2022
13:00 - 13:30 Intro round
13:30 - 15:00 Practical work 3: Read paper & write peer review
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 Discuss peer review in small groups
16:00 - 16:30 Group discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Closing round with reflective freewriting & course evaluation