Making Sense of Academic Conferences: Presenting, Participating and Organising

Making Sense of Academic Conferences is a practical guide for doctoral students and early-career researchers, providing an introduction to the world of academic conferences and offering guidance on presenting, participating, and planning conferences. The Insider Guides to Success in Academia series provides practical and realistic advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers, addressing key topics that often get overlooked.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Based on practical experiences and empirical research, Making Sense of Academic Conferences offers an introduction to the world of academic conferences. This accessible text also includes material to support researchers who are organizing conferences.

Offering guidance about presenting at, participating in, and planning a conference, it uncovers the purpose of conferences; their role in supporting researcher development; steps involved in selecting and traveling to a conference; routine practices and terminology; strategies for making the most out of conferences. Suitable for doctoral students and early career researchers, this book engages with all aspects of academic conferences, recognizing that attending conferences is as much about presenting papers as discos and not spilling your tea on the keynote speaker.

The book is ideally suited for graduate researchers and early career researchers, particularly those who may be going to their first conference, or traveling to their first international conference, and for more experienced academics who are working with novice conference attendees.

The Insider Guides to Success in Academia offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia.

These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors -- and will address.

Weight: 200g
Dimension: 124 x 185 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367701697