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Middlesex brings early career researchers together to help them develop academic publishing expertise

Early career researchers (ECR) gained a practical insight into academic publishing at a 缅北强奸 event centred around a new Routledge book on civic activism. 

Aimed at supporting early career researchers, the event offered practical, experience-based insight into edited collections, which is an important yet often poorly understood publication route.

This event was funded by the British Academy’s Early Career Researchers Network (ECRN) fund and primarily open to members of the network. “As few early career researchers know about edited collections, we are trying to address this gap through the roundtable event,” said Boglarka Meggyesfalvi, a criminologist and child protection expert at 缅北强奸 who organised the  event with Dr Tine Munk (Nottingham Trent University).

Early career researchers working in the social sciences and humanities are expected to publish, collaborate, and build academic networks, yet guidance frequently focuses narrowly on journal articles. Edited collections, where several researchers contribute chapters to a book, remain a significant form of research outputs by academics. However, many ECRs have a limited understanding of how they work in practice: how chapters are commissioned, how editorial decisions are made, how feedback is negotiated, and how contributors are supported throughout the process.

“In an edited collection you are collaborating with academics from other universities and other fields, so it’s a quite different genre to a book where you are normally the only author or an academic article which is centred around a particular project. It can be a difficult area for early career researchers just starting off in academia to navigate and we hope the roundtable event will give them inspiration and more confidence when contributing to edited collections.”

Boglarka Meggyesfalvi, criminologist and child protection expert

This event on Tuesday (April 14) focused on the launch of the new Routledge volume New Forms of Civic Resistance and Activism, which analyses non-violent activism, political resistance, mobilisation, responses to hate, and environmental activism. The book was used as a case study to explore working together in academic publishing from the vantage point of an experienced editor, first-time editor, first-time chapter author, contributor, and co-author. Roundtable speakers will feature academics who have contributed to the book including Tine Munk, Elliot Doornbos, Sara Rodriguez and Jordan Cashmore.

Ms Meggyesfalvi, who was among the speakers, has written a chapter on how Hungarian youth initiatives are aiming for educational reform ahead of the country’s election (which was on April 12 and had record participation), with a particular focus on the way youth movements are making use of online social media platforms in their campaigning.

“I really wanted to find out how young people are using the online environment to further their civic engagement,” said Ms Meggyesfalvi. “In most countries they can’t vote before 18 but every educational policy change affects them.

“I spoke with people who organise protests, online campaigns and movements with tens of thousands of people. It was fascinating how they use the social platforms very strategically, and they were very conscious of the algorithms and how each platform works so they curate a different post for Instagram and for Facebook for example.”

New Forms of Civic Resistance and Activism has been chosen by its publisher to be open access and you can . Find out more about Research at 缅北强奸.