1.1 What is peer review? Why peer review?
To prepare you for the Certified Peer Reviewer course, in this first section, we take a step back and discuss the history of academic publishing and explain the status quo of peer review.
1.4 How to get involved
Learn how you can get involved in peer review and contribute to trust and quality in academia and research.
3.1 How to write a helpful peer review report
Probably the most important part of the peer review process, this section digs deep into what it takes to write a peer review report, which will be helpful to the author and ultimately to science.
4.0 What next?
This final module of the course apprises you of your continued responsibility as a reviewer, and discusses how you can get recognition for your efforts.
Guest editors play a vital role in curating high-quality contributions on a particular topic and driving the editorial review process for special issue publications.
How to find your intrinsic motivation?
As an early career researcher, or someone in the final stages of their PhD, a perennial question on one's mind is "what's next?".
Lessons from the Gender Asset Gap Project
Prof Doss explains how assets are shared between women and men and that joint ownership does not imply equality. Legal frameworks affect how data can be interpreted, e.g. marital property rights.
Mobilising the research community of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network to adopt gender perspectives in their research for SDGs
Dorothea Strueber explains the mission of the SDSNs which are networks of knowledge creating organisations around the globe set up to promote research for SDGs.
A Sticky Pipeline: Why So Few Women of Science at the Top?
Prof Kim explores how to 'fix the numbers' of women in science at the decision making and leadership levels in Korea.
Advancing BRIDGE (better research, innovation and development for gender equality) through cooperation between universities, industry and society
Dr Watanabe explains the path taken in Japan to advance gender equality in science and how the 10th Gender Summit – Asia Pacific in Tokyo in 2017 has helped propel these efforts, includi
Initiatives and programmes for engaging women scientists in developing world in research for SDGs
Ylann Schemm explains the mission of the Elsevier Foundation to advance women, in developing countries, in science career and science endeavours, including research for SDGs.
Catalyzing the earning potential of disadvantaged women, men and youth by integrating them into viable economic systems
Dr Nyambi explains how her organisation MEDA works towards women's socio-economic empowerment in some of the poorest areas in the world.