Overview

The workshop is primarily aimed at knowledge producers who work or intend to do work on the Global South. Specifically, addresses four interconnected issues around research and publication, with emphasis placed on gender and sexuality research. These are:

1. Whose knowledge matters and for what purpose? Gaining visibility for your research
2. Choosing a suitable journal for the paper
3. Addressing reviewers’ comments
4. Navigating or dealing with rejection

Key Takeaways

• The varied and sometimes conflicting ways in which impact is defined and evaluated by us, our various audience and by those who assess our work?
• Factors bearing on our research/publication strategy: for any given project, is our primary goal to obtain institutional promotion, recognition from our peers, impact local policy decisions, fill knowledge gaps on a topic and/or region, transform the lives of those who are often the focus of our research or a combination of all of these things?
• The fact that publishing in high impact international journals may not always be possible or desirable for a variety of reasons.
• Treating reviewers’ comments as ideally an integral part of academic exchange between peers, versus a stumbling block to publication, while also being aware that differences in positionality and power imbalances may also shape this exchange.
• Also, the first read through is not necessarily indicative of the overall tenor of the review.
• The possibility of transformation after rejection.