Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

The key ingredients for planning, executing and writing a nature paper
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3332-19-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 01/04/2019

Date and time	01.05.2019, at: 09:00 - 03.05.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	3,240.00 kr.
Lecturers	Vanessa Hall
ECTS credits	2.10

Contact person	Vanessa Hall E-mail address: vh@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish and Nordic universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee. Course title The key ingredients for planning, executing and writing a nature paper Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Have insight into the key criteria required for publishing in high impact journals. 2. Plan and organize a research study of high impact. 3. Formulate a title, abstract and discussion suitable for high impact publishing. 4. Navigate confidently through the submission and review process of high impact journals. Content Learn specific tools in how to plan, organize, execute and write different sections of a manuscript for high impact factor journals. Group activities and a home assignment will be performed which focus on practice of writing at a high impact level and which will provide feedback on how to improve writing in a relevant and high impact style. Keynote lecture from a chief editor from a Nature journal will disclose tips and advice for publishing in high impact factor journals Other keynote lectures from researchers that have published in Nature journals will provide and share their own advice and experiences in publishing in Nature. Participants Phd students, postdocs and any other faculty position keen to learn how to publish in high impact factor journals. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language English Form Lectures Group work and presentations Keynote lectures Home assignment (total 6 hours) Course director Vanessa Hall, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, vh@sund.ku.dk Teachers External lecturer Patrick Goymer, Chief Editor for Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Publishing, London Claire Meehan, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen Christa Gall, Associate Professor, Dark Cosmology Center, University of Copenhagen Dates May 1st – May 3rd 2019 Course location Grønnegårdsvej 7, Frederiksberg C, DK-1870 Registration Please register before 1st April 2019 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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